Trump met the Senate GOP — and gave them a moment of terrible clarity

If Senate Majority Leader John Thune had asked Sen. Rick Scott “what’s on the menu?” for the Republican caucus’ lunch Wednesday, Scott’s response might have been “your majority.”

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President Donald Trump invaded Senate Republicans’ lunch at Scott’s invitation — a solicitation extended without Thune’s prior knowledge. Trump’s visit came amid conflicting reports about negotiations with Iran, clear signs that Democratic enthusiasm continues to grow across the country, and Trump’s own decision to cancel a bipartisan bill signing for a new housing bill. Rather than deal with those issues, the president mostly continued his rampage against what he views as the true roadblock to his legislative agenda: Senate Republicans.

The details of the private meeting sound less like a staid policy luncheon and more like the recent UFC fight at the White House. “Within minutes, he was in a shouting match,” MS NOW reported. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., never lacking for a turn of phrase, told reporters that Trump was “mad as a murder hornet.”

The president entered a back-and-forth with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., about the Iran war, with Cassidy reportedly yelling at the president. “I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on,’” Cassidy said afterward. “Our original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what’s going on.” Both men raised their voices further, with Cassidy calling the president “brother” and Trump taunting the senator about his recent primary loss.

As if that was not enough drama, the president even chided Sen. David McCormick for missing Tuesday’s vote on the Iran war powers resolution. Never mind that McCormick was absent from that symbolic vote because he was with Trump at a rally in the senator’s home state of Pennsylvania.