Trump 'crashing out' amid Epstein 'obsession': analysts

U.S. President Donald Trump looks up as he participates in a roundtable on antifa, an anti-fascist movement he designated a domestic terrorist organization via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washi

“Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist says a supremely stressed President Donald Trump appears to be ‘crashing out’ according to his recent interaction with reporters.

“The kids would say, ‘he's really crashed out’ talking to [ABC News] Reporter, Mary Bruce, in that case, and another on Air Force One the other day,” Geist said. “He's in a tailspin. … when asked about the Epstein files and some of the emails that were made public the other day. This obviously is something that Donald Trump didn't want to be made public. But he saw the writing on the wall on Sunday night and said, ‘okay, I've got to get behind this and pretend I've been behind it all along.’”

Axios CEO Jim Vandehei doubted anything revelatory was going to come out of the Epstein files because the Biden administration had “sat upon” the information without charges. But he agreed the president appears to be in a tantrum over what could come out.

“I wouldn't think you're going to suddenly get this amazing new portrait of all the grossness around Epstein and the people who affiliated with him,” Vandehei said. “ … Again, we do become immune to this a little bit. But give me a break here. The president of the United States — a woman asked you a question, and you call her a freaking piggy. Like, in what world is that okay? If I did that as a CEO of my company, I should probably lose my job. I certainly should not be trusted by anybody around me because it's so damn disrespectful.”

“And if you go back and roll the tape on the question where he said, that's ‘so rude, you're so insubordinate,’ it wasn't even that interesting of a question,” Vandehei added. “It was a question anybody would ask. It was asked in a totally neutral tone. There was no anger in it. Anyone anybody who's just, ‘oh, I hate the media,’ just go watch it yourself. Your eyes aren't going to lie. Look at it. And did that seem like a reasonable question? And then did it seem like a reasonable response?”

“If it was a reasonable question and it was an unreasonable response, then why?” Vandehei demanded. “Well, I'm guessing that those questions are starting to get under the president's skin, because it's basically a controversy of his own making. He created the Frankenstein that created the Epstein obsession. And they won't let it go and he won't let it go. And now it continues to haunt him.”

Vandehei went on to say that Trump’s MAGA base must be furious because Trump’s monster makes it “almost impossible” for the administration to get anything meaningful done.

“You don't have to be some political Svengali to look at what happened two weeks ago and say, ‘geez, what should I do?’ I don't know, maybe you should focus on prices, the economy, jobs, get an anxious public feeling a little bit more confident. Feel like you're putting your emphasis into getting the economy in a good place, where if AI comes as quickly as people think it is, that everybody can benefit from it,” Vandehei said. “When you're not doing that, people sour on you. And when people sour on you broadly, it's a signal to your base that, little by little, they can start to question you. They can start to maybe put a little pressure on you. And that's what you're seeing happen within MAGA.”

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