Bob Costa: Trump Spent the Weekend ‘Getting Angrier and Angrier that He Feels He’s Under Siege’

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COSTA: "What a weekend. My colleagues Ashley Parker and Phil Rucker and I worked on this story over the weekend about how the president left the White House in a huff on Friday, unhappy with his staff, unhappy in many ways with Attorney General Sessions’ decision to recuse himself. He gets to Mar-a-Lago and he plays golf on Saturday. He's -- he is playing -- playing angry according to people who were with him on Saturday, fuming about the intelligence community, Steve Bannon flew down on Saturday. He's been talking to the president about the so-called Deep State, the intelligence community who, in their eyes, is working against them. And he wakes up Sunday morning, however, and he’s in a good mood when he reads the papers and he watches the early cable shows because he thinks his allegations against President Obama were dominating the news. But he became unhappy later Sunday when he sees most Republicans and elected officials don’t really stand by him and his claims. Instead, they try to distance themselves. That irritated the president before he came back to Washington on. So you have him digesting news, pushing out information, suggestions, and allegations, getting angrier and angrier that he feels he is under siege according to more than a dozen people we spoke to."