If you want to get to the popular vote loser in the White House, you certainly don’t do it by talking policy. He doesn’t care! But unlike past presidents who kept their weaknesses close to their vests, Donald Trump is nothing but lizard brain, and his staff is all too happy to blab about his craziness.
[T]he devastating “Saturday Night Live” caricature of Spicer that aired over the weekend — in which a belligerent Spicer was spoofed by a gum-chomping, super soaker-wielding Melissa McCarthy in drag — did not go over well internally at a White House in which looks matter.
More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicer’s portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the president’s eyes, according to sources close to him.
This is a guy who doesn’t care that Nazi Steve Bannon is trying to start a new religious crusade, but instead obsesses over shit like this:
Bannon’s rising profile — captured on this week’s cover of Time magazine, which labeled him “The Great Manipulator” — caught the attention of senior officials, as well as Trump, who takes pride in his own cover appearances and inquired about Bannon’s Time debut with aides.
“Inquired” instead of “congratulated,” because no one overshadows Trump. No one. And while discussing that Time cover, when Joe Scarborough mentioned that people were thinking that President Bannon was the president, Trump immediately responded:
Because, you see, the president of the United States has nothing better to do with his time than obsess over what people say about him on low-rated morning cable shows. And why would he have something better to do? Bannon is the one doing the actual presidenting!
So yes, it’s easy to get to Trump. Which is why this may very well break him:
Rosie is 100 percent on board. You know they’ll make it happen.
Satirists now know exactly how to drive Trump crazy, and it's so. damn. easy.