‘This is about a narcissistic man having a fit’: NYT columnist slams Trump’s ‘racism’ and ‘tantrum’

President Donald Trump's "ego and racism" are driving his decisions to continue the government shutdown unless American taxpayers pay for the wall -- that he had promised Mexico would fund.

During an appearance on "Meet the Press Daily" with guest host Katy Tur, MSNBC contributor and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg explained that "Democrats don't really have a negotiating partner."

"They have a president throwing a tantrum because he wants the approval of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and other pundits on the far-right and doesn't really feel any urgency about getting the government working, because as he said -- even though I don't think it's necessarily true -- he thinks most of the people that aren't being paid are Democrats," she explained.

"So I think he doesn't feel this sense of crisis over what's happening," she concluded.

"I think what he cares about this wall -- not metaphorically and not really, I think, even about border security -- but he's desperate for this for his own ego and his own racism," she continued.

"That makes it really difficult because it's not really policy issues, this is just about a narcissistic man having a fit," she added.

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