Anyway, don't watch it. Here is a link to a transcript. If you read the whole thing, or attempt to watch the interview, this will happen.
I'm just going to reference one piece of it. Bartiromo observed that Trump had nothing to gain by feuding with Senators like McCain and Corker. Trump, who can never, under any circumstances, admit error, claimed that "sometimes it helps," and "it gets people to do what they're supposed to do."
Trump isn't big on facts, but... um, isn't McCain the guy who kept killing Trump's Obamacare repeal dreams? And isn't Corker the guy who keeps saying he won't vote for a deficit-increasing tax cut? Now, I'm very skeptical of the latter, but I attribute McCain's apostasy on healthcare as much to his Trump hatred as anything, so taunting the retiring Corker can't accomplish anything.
No, this is just Trump refusing to admit error. And of course, there is similar history. Remember that threat to Comey? Remember when he intimated that the White House may have been recording the Trump/Comey conversations? It was total fucking bullshit, like everything out of Trump's mouth. Comey then gave his testimony, under oath, to Congress, calling Trump a fuckin' liar, under oath, and even that Trump-lapdog, Tom Cotton, didn't say shit about it. Trump then vacillated between saying that Comey was lying, and then saying that his bullshit intimation of recordings forced Comey to tell the truth, meaning that his bluff "wasn't very stupid." Nice phrase, there, Donny-boy. Why did he say it "wasn't very stupid" to tell one of his typically stupid Trump-lies? Because he is Trump, and he can never admit error.
Trump stupidly feuds with members of his own party. Why? He can't help it. He's Trump. Doing so is stupid, but he can't stop himself, nor can he admit error. He has to say that everything he does is brilliant and intentional because he is the greatest at everything ever.
OK. Now for your daily reminder that Nelson W. Polsby is still right. I've been telling you people to read Consequences of Party Reform since long before my fellow political scientists took Trump seriously as a candidate. Nelson argued that the post-1968 reforms to the Democratic Party's nominating rules allowed an outsider-- Jimmy Carter-- to get the nomination, but his poor relationship with the national Democratic Party hampered his ability to get anything done as President.
I started warning, long before any of my colleagues even bothered to take Trump seriously as a candidate, that Trump was a Carter in the making. But worse, obviously. Trump doesn't just have poor relations with his own party, he goes out of his way to antagonize Representatives and Senators of his own party. This is at least part of the reason he can't get shit done. And then Trump says it is helping him! Why? Because Trump is the dumbest motherfucker in the history of American politics.
The last time we had a president facing unified government unable to accomplish anything legislatively was with a president nominated as an outsider who had poor relationships with his party in Congress.
I've been warning about this... This is what happens if you elect an idiotic, pussy-grabbing Jimmy Carter. He did have lust in his heart, you know...