'This feels different': Conservative says new scandal knocked Trump off-kilter

[NJCher]

Charlie Sykes is frequently critical of trump, but I'm posting this because of the last paragraph in this snip.
He seems very threatened by doubts on his "accomplishment."

The leak they speak of is the early assessment of the doubtful accomplishment of the strikes.

snip

Conservative writer Charlie Sykes claimed in a new article that President Donald Trump has been so unnerved by the Iran scandal fueled by his own administration's claims that he can focus on nothing else.

So far, only one of 17 intelligence agencies released reports on the possible effects of last weekend's bombing, yet the Trump administration continues to call it a raging success. When the press has questioned exactly how Trump knows Iran's nuclear capabilities have been wiped out, the president has been going ballistic.

"Trumpian rage rants are, of course, routine," Sykes wrote. "But Playbook suggests that this time feels different. 'The president posted 21 times on Truth Social yesterday about the supposed success of his military strikes. And at yesterday’s NATO summit — a moment specifically designed by the Western world for Trump to bask in the glory of a huge defense spending boost — he spent most of his public appearances repeating his assertions on Iran.'”

Sykes turned to Politico's reporting to find the reasoning behind Trump's "latest indignant frenzy."
"Critics see a president spooked by a bombshell leak that has undermined his authority," wrote Politico's Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns.

As usual, he is doing himself in.

If he posted 21 times, that's roughly twice an hour in a 10-hour day. Safe to say it's constantly on his "mind."

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more at link

If you click the link, be sure to note how stupid he looks when he's saluting.

[tazcat]

1. Hope at least it has a niggling worry that the election evidence will come out

[diane in sf]

2. Perseveration is a classic symptom of dementia.

[generalbetrayus]

3. Any respectable drill sergeant would snap at him to straighten up his back and hold his head up.

He would not put up with a lazy fuck like Orange Julius Caesar.

[Hugin]

4. Binary facts are Trump's greatest weakness...

Either he was elected in 2020 or he wasn’t. The bombing in Iran “obliterated” or it didn’t. The guy would argue with a coin toss.

His MO is to muddy the waters and work the refs. He lives in a world of opinion and uncertainty. There’s no putting his tiny inadequate thumb on the scales for a binary fact. When it’s plain for all the world to see. I guess you’d call it the liar’s paradox.

[BoRaGard]

5. Drowning republicon draft-dodger-in-chief now flailing in lie soup

Most Americans, even those the republicons have suckered in the past,
grow weary of the unending skein of G.O.P. lies.

It's tiring to never hear the truth, and instead to be forcibly subject to endless taxpayer-funded self-pitying G.O.P. Whining.