Donald Trump actually said...

"The President called the reporting earlier on this, from days ago, fake news about McMaster."

"The President is commander in chief, and no one else, and he has the right to have whoever he wants especially as his national security adviser."

"He'd like to see it end, and this is a sign he's going down this path and could very well mean this investigation has many more weeks and months to go."

"The President has begun getting frustrated with that. He's someone who is a free-wheeling, you know, president. He wants to do things his own way."