I note Rick Wilson has been trying to point out we are seeing a  sort of manic phase attack, i.e., Trump feels cornered but then finds a way to feel empowered and goes nuts, Maggie Haberman seems to be seeing it, too:

He retweeted this earlier:

after these:

I have no words: Trump stops following Ann Coulter on Twitter after 'joke presidency' comments @ TheHill.com

Pelosi told Trump he didn’t have the votes in the House. So what happened?

Analysis by Colby Itkow​itz @ The Fix @ WashingtonPost.com, Dec. 21

When Nancy Pelosi chided President Trump in the Oval Office last week that he didn’t have the votes in the House to pass a government funding bill that included $5 billion for his border wall, she was probably expecting that Trump’s GOP critics, particularly those on their way out the door, would buck him.

But when House Republican leadership, backed into a corner by the White House and the Freedom Caucus, brought it to the floor Thursday night, all but eight Republicans voted in favor of a temporary spending bill that would avert a shutdown and provide Trump’s wall money. That, coupled with the 20 House Democrats who weren’t there to vote, handed Trump a victory, at least optically, and made Pelosi’s assessment incorrect.

GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) crowed about the misjudgment of Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House minority leader, and said proving her wrong gives “the president a lot more leverage.”

Several of the Republicans who voted yes are among those who have critiqued Trump’s handling of this shutdown fight and have openly supported the House taking up the clean spending bill that passed in the Senate. Many are those who lost their reelection because of voter repudiation of Trump.

Rep. Ryan Costello (R-Pa.), a moderate who decided not to run for reelection over his frustrations with the direction of the party under Trump, has been a fixture on cable news of late admonishing Trump and the far right who the president seeks to appease. And yet, Costello supported the bill.

In an interview with the Fix on Friday [....]

Rep. Tim Ryan floor speech:

I agree, further it's exactly the kind of straight talk that midwesterners love to hear from a politician. (Think you don't have to do hopey changey bi-partisan stuff if you can do this style there, you can attack if you do it this way.) Actually it makes me think how some midwestern swings that voted for Trump maybe were bamboozled that he was a straight talker.

Bernie tweet Friday afternoon:

Hah, touche