Brokaw: Trump Is ‘Constantly Trying To Divide the Country’

‘His whole modus operandi is to get up in the morning and say, “I’m great, it’s all their problem”‘

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TODD: This president doesn’t compartmentalize anything, Tom. So the minute there’s something, he speaks. And it did seem as if he just lashed out, “I can’t believe I can’t order the F.B.I. to investigate the Democrats. I can’t do these things.” See, obviously that makes Republicans on the Hill a bit nervous that he keeps doing that.
 
BROKAW: Well, it’s always someone else’s fault. This president, more than anyone that I can remember in my lifetime, is pointing fingers at everybody else, except himself. The president has elected not to be just the king. The president has elected to be our principal political leader in this country and to work with the other branches of government to get something done on behalf of the American people. But his whole modus operandi is to get up in the morning and say, “I’m great, it’s all their problem.” And even members of his loyal circle, and it’s a very much smaller circle these days say, “Stop tweeting. We don’t need to hear from you anymore.” I was out in Wyoming, where people are still for him, but they’re saying, “Just shut up for a while.” The biggest single issue, in my judgment of this country, in a macro sense, is how do we bring the country back together again. And what he’s doing is constantly trying to divide the country.

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