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If Senate Majority Leader John Thune had asked Sen. Rick Scott \u201cwhat\u2019s on the menu?\u201d for the Republican caucus\u2019 lunch Wednesday, Scott\u2019s response might have been \u201cyour majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump invaded Senate Republicans\u2019 lunch at Scott\u2019s invitation \u2014 a solicitation extended without Thune\u2019s prior knowledge. Trump\u2019s visit came amid conflicting reports about negotiations with Iran, clear signs that Democratic enthusiasm continues to grow across the country, and Trump\u2019s own decision to cancel a bipartisan bill signing for a new housing bill. Rather than deal with those issues, the president mostly continued his rampage against what he views as the true roadblock to his legislative agenda: Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n

The details of the private meeting sound less like a staid policy luncheon and more like the recent UFC fight at the White House. \u201cWithin minutes, he was in a shouting match,\u201d MS NOW reported. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., never lacking for a turn of phrase, told reporters that Trump was \u201cmad as a murder hornet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president entered a back-and-forth with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., about the Iran war, with Cassidy reportedly yelling at the president. \u201cI stood and said, \u2018You have not told the American people what\u2019s going on,\u2019\u201d Cassidy said afterward. \u201cOur original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what\u2019s going on.\u201d Both men raised their voices further, with Cassidy calling the president \u201cbrother\u201d and Trump taunting the senator about his recent primary loss.<\/p>\n

As if that was not enough drama, the president even chided Sen. David McCormick for missing Tuesday\u2019s vote on the Iran war powers resolution. Never mind that McCormick was absent from that symbolic vote because he was with Trump at a rally in the senator\u2019s home state of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Yet Trump was not finished. He implored the senators to pass the SAVE America Act \u2014 a poorly written piece of legislation that would encroach on states\u2019 constitutional right to hold elections and impose new requirements for voter registration and verification far beyond a valid driver\u2019s license. But even setting aside its merits, the bill lacks 50 Republican votes, let alone the Democrats needed to reach 60 votes and pass the Senate. This simple math problem apparently remains an elusive point with the president.<\/p>\n

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Trump did try to leave the meeting on a positive note. After telling reporters that there were senators in the lunch that \u201cI don\u2019t like,\u201d he did compliment Iran\u2019s leaders for \u201cbeing very nice\u201d \u2014 though they don\u2019t seem to see things the same way.<\/p>\n

William S. Burroughs named his 1959 novel \u201cNaked Lunch\u201d for that \u201cfrozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.\u201d That mealtime clarity came to Capitol Hill Wednesday, and it brought a stark revelation: With Democrats gaining in opposition to the president, and as he faces sinking poll numbers, Trump is fighting the one thing he continues to have control over \u2014 the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

Many MAGA voices seem far more excited about heckling Thune and his caucus for failing to pass the SAVE America Act than they are fearful that Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer will become majority leader. For the president and the MAGA base, why have one party beating up the Republicans when you can have both?<\/p>\n

When things get tough for Americans, we see our family, friends and neighbors rise to the occasion. But when things get tough for Trump \u2014 a war, the economy, legislation and an election \u2014 he gives up. He walks away. He will get mad at everyone in his line of sight, but to find the real problems, he need only look in a mirror.<\/p>\n

Read more Just let Knicks fans have this moment, Trump. Stay away.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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