New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called President Trump a “brain-eating disease” who is going to “suck the brains out” of journalists struggling to keep up with covering him.

“I find from a journalism point of view Donald Trump is a brain-eating disease,” Friedman said on MSNBC Wednesday. “He does so many outrageous things on a daily basis … as a journalist or columnist you think, how can I not write about that, it’s so outrageous? Yet, if I write about it every week, I end up not going out and learning or writing about all these other things.”