“Trump has been watching Fox “… oh God…”

“Trump has been watching Fox “… oh God…”

by digby

Via CNN’s Brian Steltzer’s email newsletter, this is what keeps me up at night:

Trump “has become convinced of things that aren’t true…”

“Per two senior administration officials, Trump continued to rail privately about the omnibus bill, and has become convinced of things that aren’t true about it,” NYT’s Maggie Haberman tweeted Tuesday. She added: “Trump has been watching Fox,which had Coulter on Jeanine Pirro slamming Trump over the wall funding. That type of thing — as well as his conviction it includes Planned Parenthood funding — are animating him…”

This story in Wednesday’s WashPost has a new tidbit about the Trump-TV feedback loop: “Trump will see a segment on TV and begin musing for someone in a job, creating uncertainty. For example, he saw Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on ‘Fox & Friends’ one morning and asked an aide if he could be the next attorney general. The president has, for months, attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has so far survived the public belittling…”