The common wisdom is that President Donald J. Trump does not have an unexpressed thought, that everything that pops into his head is immediately put out into the twitterverse or interjected into a conversation or speech.  However, the revelation that he has kept a diary since being elected President belies that belief.  Here are some key excerpts:

Nov. 8 Election night, Holy sh!t, I have to govern!  I have put together a team and actually take run this country!! People keep congratulating me, but I have no clue what to do! :-(.

Nov. 9  Remember to ask White House Counsel to see if DC incest laws apply to the President, and if so, if both parties are over 21 and consent, is there a crime?  And if there is a crime, can the President pardon himself?

Nov. 10 Being a candidate was great!  Adoring crowds everywhere! I could say whatever I wanted, and they loved it!  They were so desperate for someone to acknowledge them, they overlooked any flaw that would have sunk another candidate.

Nov. 11 P.T. Barnum was right.  How the masses believed that I would ever want to hang out with any of them, much less help them, is incomprehensible.  Haven’t they seen my gold plated penthouse?  Did they really think I could relate to Joe SixPack?

Nov. 12 Gotta meet with Don Jr. and Eric to see how we can make some money off of this presidency.  I bet bookings at the new Trump International Hotel in DC are way up now.  What can I do about Mar-a-Lago, though.

Nov. 15  I can still have some fun with this.  Parade a bunch of candidates for high level positions to Trump tower and my golf course in Bedminister.  I can try some people out, like the Apprentice, maybe give them a task, give them a few days, and see how they do.  Bannon can come up with the tasks, Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr. and Jared can help me judge.

Nov. 18 I can settle some old scores, too.  I’ll bring Romney to heel by dangling a lofty position in front of him and he’ll try to cozy up like a little puppy.  Then I’ll yank it from him at the last minute, so the disappointment is the greatest.  Just like Charlie Borown and Lucy with that football.  I’ve gotta get him out in some public place so everyone can see me toying with him.

Nov. 20 What the hell am I gonna do with Giuliani and Christie?  Chris was the first major politician to endorse me, and Rudy got the FBI agents so stirred up Comey released that letter that put me over the top.  But they are creepy as hell to be around.  Scary too.  Bannon is a day at the beach by comparison.  A beached whale, perhaps, but a day at the beach nonetheless.

Dec. 22 I still can’t believe Hillary won the popular vote by 2.9 million!!  That is crushing.  How in the world can she be more popular than me??  That can’t be!! More Americans voted for her?

Nov. 23  I still can’t believe it.  Obama got more votes and more electoral votes than me.  Kellyanne says this may be the only election in history where the loser gets over it better than the winner.  But I just can’t get over it.  I can’t let go of the fact that I lost the popular vote.  So I’ve gotta change the facts.

Nov. 26 I got it — I’ll claim she had 3-5 million illegal votes.  Kellyanne said I have no evidence for that, but it doesn’t matter. I can say anything and my followers will believe it.

Nov. 29 After years of trying to undermine Obama with that birth certificate nonsense , how can I expect all my subjects to accept me, when more than half voted against me?

December 1  I’ve gotta come up with a stat that sounds much more impressive.  Maybe counties won.  It’s less relevant than the popular vote, but it sounds good.

December 15  Kellyanne says I should get over the fact that a majority of Americans don’t want me as president, and that I should just try to govern as best as I can for all of the people and stop with the responses to petty slights from long ago and the false narrative that I won in a landslide. Seems like good advice, but I can’t really embrace it.

Dec. 25  Russian hacking didn’t influence election because I don’t want to believe it did!! And I don’t want the American people to believe it either.!!  If I don’t believe it, it didn’t happen! I don’t want to think I didn’t win on my own-it’s as simple as that!  Why can’t people get that?  Are they stupid or something?  (I guess they are, if they voted for me to fix their petty little problems.)

Jan. 1 Hard to believe I won the electoral college by 78,000 votes in 3 states. That doesn’t seem right.  Electoral College win was sound, but no blowout.  Maybe I can convince everyone it was, just by repeating it over and over.  Sorta like rinse lather, repeat, repeat, repeat. Works for my hair, and everyone says that looks great!

Jan. 20 Why do I get so out of breath five lines into a speech?  Melania says I look and sound like Louie Anderson on a Family Feud rerun.  She’s after me to lose weight.  She says there ought to be another little pill I can take to improve my stamina.

Jan. 21 My greatest fear, now that I’m sworn in, is they’ll change that acronym POTUS. You don’t usually find the initials for “of” and “the” included in acronyms.  We chant “USA,” not “TUSOA” at the Olympics, right?  So what if somebody thinks of that and decides to call me “PUS” instead (President of the United States).  They’ll say it serves me right for that “pussy” comment to Billy Bush (I still can’t get over the fact that I get pilloried for saying “pussy” to “Bush”! Haha!) But to me, it conjures up the sickly, slimy, yellowish jelly oozing from an open sore.  I hate disgusting things like that — I’m a germaphobe for God’s sake.

Feb. 6  That Stephen Miller is a real up-and-comer.  Reminds me of a young Roy Cohn.  Sharp as a whip and same political views. Pugnacious.  I like that. We should put him out on the Sunday talk show circuit. I bet he’ll do a great job

Feb. 9 Rumors are Flying Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador before I was sworn in.  Of course he did.  Just like Reagan discussed the hostage crisis with the Iranians and Nixon discussed the peace talks with North Vietnam.  No big deal.  This will all blow over, just like those accusations.  Certainly nothing to lose any sleep over.