Trump’s heated rhetorical attacks on Democratic lawmakers, whom he called out as “traitors” who deserve to be jailed, have left his Republican allies in Washington dumbfounded and skeptical about any bipartisan dealmaking at the end of 2025.

Republican lawmakers and strategists fear Trump is undermining his own credibility and ability to get anything done before the midterm election.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Trump labeling his political opponents as traitors was “reckless” and “irresponsible.”

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    RepubliQans, meet me over on camera three for a sec.

    [camera 3]

    *snif* . . . Ummmm . . . HE’S DEMENTED!!! YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! His brain is mush! No thinky-thinky! What the fuck is wrong with you?!

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      He’s pretty much just a mirrored Susan Collins: virtue signals that he puts principles over party but is a complete fraud who falls in line 99% of the times that his vote actually matters.

      But from the RIGHT of the party leadership kinda sorta and for Freedumb!

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    Then do something, assholes.

    Or keep acting like cowards who are afraid of what Grabby Grandpa’s gonna call you, that seems more likely.

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    They’re dumbfounded because he’s the one doing it and not them.

    Republicans have had a long history of stone-walling Democrats and outright working against them in spite. Nothing new, people.

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    The funniest shit is going to be if trump loses Republicans and just starts doing a bunch of progressive stuff in a desperate bid to get anyone to like him.

    All he’s ever wanted to be is popular in NYC. That’s why he’s so infatuated with Mamdani.

    There’s a very real chance he starts acting like him just so people like him.