Trumps Storms Out on Democrats and Says He’ll Stop Working With Them

By Peter Baker, Katie Rogers & Emily Cochrane @ NYTimes.com, May 22

• President Trump left a meeting with Democratic leaders after three minutes, lashing out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing him of a “cover-up.”
• The clash suggested that efforts to forge bipartisan legislation on issues — already a long shot — may effectively be frozen for the foreseeable future.

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Just pitiful fake whataboutism pushback from Trump trolls:

Pelosi videos manipulated to make her appear drunk are being shared on social media

an MP4 @ WaPo

the "testifying to calm" clip:

Watching it, I get the sense he gets scared by 25th amendment type talk. That kind of buzz would certainly throw off his self-image of bestest genius of everything and king of the world.  Or maybe Melania hinted: you're looking ridiculous?

Nancy Pelosi urges Trump's family to have an intervention with him "for the good of the country"

"Maybe he wants to take a leave of absence," the speaker of the House adds during her weekly news conference

@ Salon.com, May 23

George Conway retweeted by Neal Katyal, both liking what Mareen Dowd is saying:

Excerpts I like:

once I’m completely awake, a gravitational pull takes hold and I am once more bedeviled by our preposterous president.

I flip on the TV and gird for the endless stream of vitriol coming from the White House, bracing for another day of overflowing, overlapping, overwrought news stories about Trump. I’m sapped before I rise.

As Mayor Pete said on his Fox town hall about the national Trump preoccupation, “It is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away.”

My head hurts, puzzling over whether Trump is just a big blowhard who’s flailing around, or a sinister genius laying traps to get himself impeached to animate the base ahead of the election [....]

Just as Trump once wore out contractors, bankers, lawyers and businesspeople in New York with his combative, insulting and wayward ways, now he’s wearing out the political crowd, as he tries to beat everybody here into submission with his daily, even hourly, onslaught of outrage piled upon outrage.

Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi have both mastered the art of puncturing Trump — far better than his Republican primary debate rivals did.

“I don’t have a problem standing up to somebody who was working on Season 7 of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan,” Buttigieg told The Post’s Robert Costa, saying he took a dim view of Trump’s bone-spurs excuse to get out of serving in Vietnam.

Pelosi winds Trump up when she drips condescension worthy of a Jane Austen grande dame, saying she will pray for the president or pleading for someone to stage an intervention with the poor soul.

“He does outrageous, nasty, destructive things, knowing full well he’s crossing a line, and then he pretends he didn’t,” said Trump biographer Tim O’Brien. “He has spent five decades going to gossip columnists, radio shows, TV interviews and newspapers to stick a knife into almost anybody who crosses his path that he doesn’t like and he revels in it. There is something amazing in the Energizer Bunny aspect of his nastiness and his ignorance. He doesn’t care what people think about how mean or dumb he is. He just keeps going.” [....]

“One of the biggest motivating factors in Trump’s life — other than food, greed, sex and revenge — is mythmaking. Deep down, he knows he’s a pathological liar and he’s not the person he says he is. But any time anyone pierces that veil, it sends him into a rage.”