All the evidence and history point to Trump having a pathological need to be The Biggest Guy In The Room at all times. No one is allowed to be more popular, more successful, or more powerful than him. He simply can't cope with the idea that the law and the rest of the government doesn't automatically bow to his will. As I've said to IRL friends and here, too, I think, Trump seems to have moved into the White House convinced that every other President was a timid wimp who refused to use the FULL AWESOME MIGHT OF THE PRESIDENCY, and never seriously believed that there were limits on what the President of the United States could and was permitted to do. Now that he's running into them, he's throwing a tantrum in the hopes that someone will throw him absolute power to placate him.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.