Trump 'completely isolated' in White House as he loses control: MS NOW

Based upon his own reporting and excerpts from a bombshell new book penned by the New York Times ' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, MS NOW host Jonathan Lemire claimed on Thursday morning that Donald Trump has become a man alone inside his own White House.

Noting that Vice President JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles retreated to the Situation Room with the rest of the Trump inner circle — with the president left on the outside — Lemire pointed out that it is nearly impossible to deliver bad news to the increasingly embattled president.

Lemire cited Trump’s blurting “I love the inflation” before reporters on Wednesday as evidence that the president has lost touch with even his own people, who would have made sure he was better prepared when questioned by reporters.

“I wrote a few months ago about the bubble he's in,” Lemire told the “Morning Joe” panel. “All presidents exist in some sort of bubble, but this one in particular, it's an echo chamber. He only talks to people who agree with him. He does no domestic travel anymore. None. And to [conservative journalist] David Drucker’s point, that is where he would go out on the road. He'd go to these rallies, he'd see what lines would work or what not. And that would give him a sense as to what the American people, or at least his voters cared about.”

“That stopped. Instead, he's being fed AI slop on Truth Social,” he observed. “That's the only feedback he's getting from, quote, real people. And he is completely out of touch. I mean, yesterday him blurting out, ‘I love the inflation.’ It's like Brick and ‘Anchorman ‘ yelling, ‘I love lamps’ because he didn't know what else to say. I mean, it was just it was that nonsensical. And it will be featured in every possible campaign ad this fall.”

“I think the point here is, right, that it's not just disconnected from voters, it's also disconnect from what Republicans need him to be,” Lemire elaborated. “They need him to be talking about the economy. They need him to at least pretend to care what people are thinking and feeling about. And instead, he's consumed with foreign adventures. And he's consumed with his legacy and remaking Washington in his own image. He cares about what, what, how he'll be remembered forever, and he's losing sight of what got him back to the office in the first place.”

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough drove the same point home, telling viewers Trump appears to be cut off even from those closest to him. "Nobody could talk to the president about what could be the biggest crisis in his presidency," Scarborough said, referencing the Haberman and Swan reporting. "He's completely isolated even inside the White House according to this report."

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