President Trump said Hillary Clinton’s famous “Russian reset” in 2009 made the U.S. look stupid, and said he would have been ridiculed if he tried something like that.

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“Hillary Clinton did a reset, remember, with the stupid plastic button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks?” Trump said in a lengthy press conference at the White House. “[Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov] looked at her like, ‘what the hell is she doing with that cheap plastic button?'”

“Hillary Clinton, that was a reset, remember it said ‘reset?'” he said. “Now if I do that, ooh, I’m a bad guy.”