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New Yorker Columnist Susan Glasser warned that President Donald Trump’s poisonous combo of strength obsession and failing health was likely going to push him to more and more extreme behavior as he rages against his fading vigor.

Speaking with former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes on his Saturday year-in-review podcast, Glasser said the signs are already showing and we’re not even out of Trump’s first year of his second term.

“You have a president pushing 80 who’s clearly less able to project physical strength than he was before,” Glasser said. “ … ‘Strong’ was his favorite word in the vocabulary, so the weaker and older he becomes the more unhinged he will be as a result.”...

Former GOP Communications Director Tara Setmayer whacked President Donald Trump’s 2025 attack on comedians and entertainment as a sign of a weak man on MS NOW’s “The Weekend.”

“He's done [this] from day one,” said Setmayer. “He went after the media, calling them the ‘enemy of the people.’ which was straight out of the dictator playbook that we've seen from the 1930s and 40s with Mussolini and Hitler. This is exactly what strongmen do. And Donald Trump is the most thin-skinned, boring whiner. He is a whiner in chief. He whines constantly about anyone who dares to say anything negative about him, yet he tries to portray that he's this big, tough guy. Really? Because that doesn't sound like someone who is a well-adjusted adult who can handle criticism.”

Setmayer spoke directly to Trump’s Christmas Eve threat to terminate the broadcast licenses of networks featuring comedians who are “negative to President Donald J. Trump.”...

Republican pundit S.E. Cupp ragged President Donald Trump’s constant need for adulation and compliments.

“There were some big tests [in Washington — one of them, loyalty,” reported “Table for Five” host Abby Phillip, before playing a montage of toe-kissing from President Donald Trump’s administrators at cabinet meetings.

The cut-scene contained a flood of “thank yous” and “greatest president evers,” as well as a “Thank you for letting us get up every day and have a purpose,”—all of which caused a raft of cringing amid the “Tabel for Five” panel....

A panel of New York Times columnists say the damage of Trump’s recent Pennsylvania speech suggest his aides are merely trying to keep him busy, regardless of the consequences.

“[H]e’s making these claims about inflation that aren’t true, making these claims about wages that aren’t true, making these claims about costs that aren’t true — just a torrent of falsehoods,” said columnist Jamelle Bouie. “All clearly coming from a place of deep frustration that he isn’t as popular and well beloved as he believes he should be, which, on the one hand, is a sign that something of reality is penetrating this White House. On the other hand, it’s clear that they have no sense of how to respond to that.”

“The title of this, as best I could tell, was ‘Screw You All, You Whiners: The Economy’s Great, and if It’s Not, Blame Biden.’ said columnist Michelle Cottle. “That was it, again and again — oh, and ‘hate the immigrants.’ So I am just not sure what they’re hoping to accomplish with that, other than maybe to increase the calls for him to get another cognitive assessment. But I thought it was pretty magical.”...

Podcaster Cari Champion took Federalist reporter Brianna Lyman to task for ‘normalizing’ President Donald Trump’s recent changes to the Kennedy Center.

Lyman argued that Trump has improved the Kennedy Center since returning to office, despite revenues at the venue plummeting under Trump’s influence.

“President Trump comes in, they are renovating. They cut salaries that were needlessly high. They are bringing people to come and see the arts, for once. It was not that lively of an institution under the Biden administration. So don't pretend like you care about the Kennedy Center now, when you're quiet when it was falling into disrepair,” Lymon argued....

New York Times writer Lulu Garcia-Navarro says Congress’ approval rating is at a “dreadful 15 percent,” and President Donald Trump’s own polling is at dismal levels. Yet, Congressional Republicans can’t seem to release their death grip on the unpopular president.

Former lawmakers also accuse Congress of allowing President Donald Trump to walk over them and usurp power.

“Abdication,” said former Sen. Joe Manchin, when asked to describe Congress. “They’ve abdicated their responsibilities.”...