'Angry and sulking' Trump is clearly lashing out: report

Charlie Sykes, former editor of the conservative Bulwark, says a convergence of problems are descending on President Donald Trump, and the aging, frustrated president is clearly showing his anger.

When Trump brazenly admitted that “I love the inflation” it was not the low point of his day, said Sykes.

“As we are seeing, an increasingly frustrated Trump is realizing that he cannot escape either the Epstein Files or the Iran War he launched on a whim. … inflation is surging, his poll numbers continue to fall, his big Freedom 250 concert imploded, his slush fund is on hold, he doesn’t have his ballroom yet, (some) Republicans are defying him, and on Monday he was roundly and raucously booed in his old hometown,” said Sykes.

“It’s not your imagination,” added Sykes. “It’s taking a toll. We saw an angry, red-faced Trump crash out in an interview on “Meet the Press,” and now reports suggest that the brooding. sulking president is increasingly isolated and prone to (even more) erratic decisions. He’s standing by his bizarre appointment of Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence and lashing out at fellow Republicans who are telling him that the appointment is crazy with hair on it. His response? More middle fingers to Republicans in Congress.”

The president’s mood got no better on Wednesday, after the New York Times published an excerpt from the new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan revealing a divided White House, as well as “panicking and backbiting over the Epstein cover-up.”

“Then there is Iran, the war that he said was won on the first day,” said Sykes. “The war that would be quick and easy. The war he said would be settled any day now. Iran’s military was obliterated. Peace, he assured us, was just a couple of days away. By CNN’s latest count, he has said that an Iran deal is around the corner 38 times since March.”

But then came Trump’s gaffe that launched “a thousand” videos and Democrat ads.

“On Wednesday, as he held court in his gilded Oval Office, the man who promised to be the voice of the forgotten American was asked if he was concerned about new data that showed the annual inflation rate at 4.2 percent, a three-year high. He replied: 'The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over … when the war is over, it’s coming down, it’s going to come down like a rock,'” recounted Sykes.

“What stopped me was the ease. The complete absence of any visible awareness that the people who would see that clip are the same people paying $4.81 for a gallon of gas on the way to work,” said Sykes. “The same people who have watched their grocery bills climb every month for four months. The same people who were told, over and over again in 2024, that Donald Trump would end inflation starting on day one and make America affordable again.