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If Trump is right, he has temper tantrums. If Nancy Pelosi is right, he pretends to have temper tantrums. Neither is acceptable
"I have a winning temperament. She has a bad temperament,” Donald Trump said in 2016 on the campaign trail. But for someone with such a good temperament, the President of the United States sure has a lot of temper tantrums. Whenever anyone says something he doesn’t like, he proceeds to meltdown — often on Twitter but sometimes during a press events, including during an apparently impromptu presser yesterday in the White House’s rose garden. Shouldn’t the “leader of the free world” try to keep it together? Yesterday the President did a lot of wacky stuff. He stormed out of an infrastructure meeting with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats after three minutes, but not before saying that he wouldn’t legislate until the investigations into his presidency ended. He then wandered into the rose garden for an “unplanned presser” where he stood at a podium that somehow featured anti-Mueller graphics including the usual “no collusion, no obstruction” in big blue type and said the following: “Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up. I don’t do cover-ups.”This was followed by the President’s loyal pearl-wearing press secretary attacking Democrats for hurting the president's feelings and again claiming that the rose garden talk, the one with the graphics and the handouts, was completely impromptu.Then there was the weird bust-up between presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway and Nancy Pelosi, where Conway accused Pelosi of treating her like “her maid" and being “not very pro-woman”.I’m not sure how Trump knew Nancy Pelosi said he was “part of a cover-up” prior to the infrastructure meeting, but I assume they showed the clip on Fox News because he saw it and it enraged him enough to set off waves in the White House. Or maybe it didn’t. It’s possible that the President was using the “engaged in a cover-up” line as an excuse to avoid a meeting he wasn’t prepared for anyway. This is what Speaker Pelosi said today at her own press conference, warning that his supposed meltdown was actually just another distraction from incompetence. As proof, Pelosi cited a letter that Trump sent the night before the meeting, saying, “Trump warned in a letter that night that he would do an infrastructure deal only if Congress first passed the new North American free trade agreement he negotiated with Mexico and Canada.”As with many things in Trumpworld, it’s extremely hard to separate the truth from the strange Trumpy cover story but either way there’s something extremely bizarre about a White House that uses the President’s bad temperament as an excuse for things it’s incapable of or uninterested in doing. Historically, this White House employs theatrics like fights and meltdowns to distract from other things. And boy, are there a lot of things that Trumpworld might want to distract from. There’s the President’s taxes — which seem like they’re going to be released soonish — and there’s the sixth immigrant child that died in Trump’s border fiasco. There’s Bill Barr’s refusal to let Congress see the unredacted Mueller report, and then there’s Justin Amash, the Republican Congressman who just called for Trump’s impeachment. Whatever they’re doing in the White House, the sad truth is we either have a president who is controlled by his varying temper or we have a president who uses his moods as an excuse not to do things. It’s completely irrelevant which it is, because both are terrible and strange and disturbing. What matters is that the American people are now faced with two equally reprehensible eventualities: that their president is a thin-skinned child who cares only for his own moods and nothing else; or that their president is a guy pretending to be a thin-skinned child who only cares for his own moods and nothing else.
Nancy Pelosi has lambasted Donald Trump a day after he stormed out of a bipartisan White House meeting on infrastructure, saying she prays for the president and calling for a family “intervention”.
The leader of the US House of Representatives addressed the conflict during a Thursday press conference in which she urged the White House administration to confront the president about his “temper tantrum” a day prior.
“I pray for the President of the United States,” she said, adding, “and the well-being of the United States of America.”
“I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country,” she continued.
Her pleas arrived after Mr Trump upended a meeting with Democratic leaders in the White House on Wednesday over congressional investigations into his alleged obstruction of justice.
The president refused to sit or shake hands at the meeting, instead telling Ms Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer he would decline to work with them on any issues until all investigations against him were closed.
He then held a supposedly impromptu press appearance at the White House Rose Garden and attacked Democrats over increasing calls for impeachment following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“So sad that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will never be able to see or understand the great promise of our Country,” he tweeted after the appearance, before adding a misleading claim about the cost of the special counsel’s probe. “They can continue the Witch Hunt which has already cost $40M and been a tremendous waste of time and energy for everyone in America, or get back to work.”
The controversy has reflected a new low in the relationship between congressional Democrats and Mr Trump as multiple committees investigate whether the president obstructed justice by allegedly seeking to end Mr Mueller’s probe during its two-year span.
The president has said “you can’t go down two tracks at the same time,” as Democratic leadership has pointed out that it is the duty of Congress to both legislate and provide oversight.
Despite not yet joining a chorus of Democrats calling on the president to be removed from office, Ms Pelosi said on Thursday “the White House is just crying out for impeachment,” adding, “that’s why he flipped yesterday.”
"Impeachment is a very divisive place to go,” Ms Pelosi said.
Yahoo News 
