what we learned that announcement. thank you, jeremy diamond, at the white house for us. it all started with a promise. at some point, i m going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored, and i ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people, i ll have about 150 people and they ll say, but boy, he really looks presidential. remember that? so presidential, at some point. well, this week marked 1,000 days of the trump presidency. and what did we see? we saw the president of the united states go on twitter and rail against the speaker of the house as having something wrong with her upstairs after a meeting on syria descended into name calling. what i witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown, sad to say. he called her a third-rate politician. this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe, a
scaramucci says wheels are not just off the car. it s way worse. what are you hearing from people there in washington? i talked to a lot of former trump white house officials and republicans close to the president. they told me that in earlier parts of the administration they would actually see more restraints, constraints on trump. he wouldn t have probably awarded himself this huge contract. he wouldn t have called nancy pelosi a third-rate politician. now, he s really surrounded by yes men and women who are not willing to stand up to him, and tell him when they think he s wrong. and, you know, i talked to one former official who said your year three team is different than the year one team. not taking people from the ivy leagues anymore. and people highlighting the decision about the g7 as a result of not having people who are saying no to him. back to that, david. there are a lot of wonderful resorts out in this country.
picture taken as nancy pelosi stood up to walk out of a meeting with the president released by the white house to diminish the speaker, she immediately turned it into a badge of courage and her cover photo. at that moment i was probably saying, all roads lead to putin. a woman warrior cheered by democratic women supporters. that cabinet room meeting on syria dissolving into insults as the president called the speaker a third-rate politician. i pray for the president all the time we have to pray for his health this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president. reporter: he responding hours later on twitter, she had a total meltdown in the white house today, it was very sad to watch, pray for her, she s a very sick person it s a relationship that started with his grudging respect, but went downhill quickly, a showdown over the shutdown. nancy s in a situation where it s not easy for her to talk right now. mr. president, please don t characterize the strength that i
she said, well, while i m here as the speaker, i have an obligation to tell you that the house just voted 350 some odd, i forget exactly what the amount was but an overwhelming bipartisan vote to disapprove of the actions that you took in syria. and then he got that devolved into it s nothing but a hit job on the republicans. she said, well, many republicans joined us. then he called speaker pelosi a third-rate politician. he said that the kurds were nothing but communists and all of us democrats who were seated there must be happy with that, you know, suggesting that we all subscribe to that view of being communists. and then, you know, it just it was belligerent and something i have never seen in 27 years here in congress and serving under four different presidents. i ve never seen a moment like this. that s not how these meetings usually go? no. well, not with other presidents.
embarrassment by repudiating his policy there. but at the same time, if you look closely at what the president actually said about pelosi, calling her a third-rate politician he said third grade, but he meant third rate, right? yes. and saying, i ll meet you at the ballot box ing it s clear that the president views pelosi as something of his nemesis. this impeachment inquiry has been something that is on his mind at all times. it is coloring everything that he sees that is affecting his administration, and he blames pelosi personally for a lot of that. i think that s why you saw the blowup you did. ironically it was the republicans who pointed the finger at the impeachment inquiry when they came out. they were like, well, it s because pelosi is so concerned about politics and she s impeaching the president. i think they understood that the president s anger had a lot more to do with the pressures of that inquiry, which have gotten