A weird bit of business in the Senate last week saw commentators discussing what a threat looks like — such as when Donald Trump tweeted that impeachment manager Adam Schiff "has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!" or when Schiff repeated a CBS news report citing an anonymous, visceral warning for senators who vote against Trump's interests in the trial's coming weeks. Senators, hilariously, feigned shock.
"What do you mean, [Schiff] hasn't 'paid the price'?" asked Late Night host Seth Meyers rhetorically. "Almost everything Trump says sounds like a deleted scene from The Irishman."
But as Meyers pointed out in Monday night's A Closer Look segment, this is all a pretty bizarre and pointless discussion given the president's track record of publicly lashing out at anyone who criticises him, ever — from the "failing New York Times" to his own party to ambassadors literally testifying before Congress, in real-time.
"Let's remember this is a guy who fights with or attacks anyone who crosses him, including Republicans, Gold Star families, and even his closest friends and allies if they even so much as question him in public," Meyers noted.
And as the segment clearly shows, every time he lashes out, Trump makes himself look worse.
