President Donald Trump has been losing on multiple fronts and these losses have now taken a "humiliating turn," The New Republic reported in its podcast on Monday.
In a conversation between Zeteo reporter Asawin Suebsaeng and Greg Sargent, staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast, the two analysts described a number of Trump's failures, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, the Supreme Court striking down his tariff policy and birthright citizenship case, the Justice Department ending its case against his perceived foe Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his redistricting battle going south.
"I never would downplay the severity of the damage that he and his gang are causing and are likely to continue causing, on historic levels, between now and whenever they’re out of office. I’m not downplaying that at all," Suebsaeng said. "Having said that, they are losing more—and in some cases a lot more—than they and their cult would ever publicly admit, or especially President Donald Trump would ever be willing to admit. Otherwise his ego would cave in on itself."
"At the same time, there is a pathetic weakness and massive gaping hole of insecurity that undergirds all of this MAGA authoritarianism," Suebsaeng added.
The White House has tried to spin these losses, including U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's announcement that the Justice Department dropped the investigation of Powell. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has attempted to brush off the move and claimed it was still an ongoing investigation, but "under a different authority."
"Swin, note how Leavitt has to pretend that Trump cares about the details of the renovation and that he’s just got the best interests of the taxpayer at heart," Sargent said. "I don’t know which is worse here—the absurdity of that, the insulting absurdity of it, or the need to reassure the audience of one that he’s winning. They’re both bad."