As Eugene Robinson argued in the Washington Post on Monday, however, it may be the other way around. Trump may be stepping up all of his most Trumpian behavior because he is terrified that he’s on track to lose.

“It overly flatters Trump to fear he’s playing three-dimensional chess or employing some kind of exotic political jiujitsu. What we’re hearing in his harangues and reading in his tweets is naked fear. And he has reason to be very afraid,” wrote Robinson. “Some traumatized Democrats may have lost all faith in polls following the 2016 election, but Trump hasn’t. We know he pays close attention to the numbers. We also know he watches Fox News obsessively, not as a way to follow current events but as a barometer of his support among his base.”

“Indeed, the Fox News national poll of registered voters showed Trump losing to former vice president Joe Biden by 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent,” said Robinson. “It also showed him losing to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by six points and edging the other top-tier Democratic candidates, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), by a single point each.”

“Another survey released last week must have made Trump break out in a cold sweat,” added Robinson. “A Quinnipiac poll of registered voters in Ohio — a state Trump won in 2016 and absolutely needs to win again — showed him trailing Biden by eight points, 50 percent to 42 percent, and statistically tied with all the other leading Democratic contenders. Losing Ohio would almost surely mean a landslide electoral defeat.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-is-upping-his-racist-attacks-because-he-is-in-a-cold-sweat-that-hell-blow-2020-columnist/

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Just remember, the Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

4:40 PM · Jul 29, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155941248705761280

President Donald Trump on Monday got called out for making a “delusional” statement to a group of first responders during a signing ceremony to commemorate legislation that will permanently authorize the September 11th victim compensation fund.

During the ceremony, Trump claimed that he was at the site of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks nearly 18 years ago assisting the police and fire fighters who were helping to rescue people.

“Many of those affected were fire fighters, police officers, and other first responders,” the president said. “And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder, but I was down there, I spent a lot of time down there with you.”

There is no evidence that Trump helped search for survivors at Ground Zero, and retired New York City Fire Department Deputy Chief Richard Alles told Snopes last year that he never heard of a group of rescuers hired by Trump to help out. Additionally, Alles said that additional help from private responders was not necessary.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/more-and-more-delusional-trump-trashed-after-telling-9-11-first-responders-that-he-too-went-to-ground-zero/

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Al Sharpton would always ask me to go to his events. He would say, “it’s a personal favor to me.” Seldom, but sometimes, I would go. It was fine. He came to my office in T.T. during the presidential campaign to apologize for the way he was talking about me. Just a conman at work!

7:26 AM · Jul 29, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155801677485789184

Peter Frampton
@peterframpton

1. "Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming)we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes,

12:41 PM · Jul 28, 2019·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/peterframpton/status/1155518547784867841

Peter Frampton
@peterframpton

2. the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly

12:41 PM · Jul 28, 2019·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/peterframpton/status/1155518548573376513

Peter Frampton
@peterframpton

3. competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one." Baltimore Sun Saturday

12:41 PM · Jul 28, 2019·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/peterframpton/status/1155518549412257792

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Under the Trump Administration, African American unemployment is the lowest (best) in the history of the United States. No President has come close to doing this before! I also created successful Opportunity Zones. Waiting for Nancy and Elijah to say, “Thank you, Mr. President!”

3:34 PM · Jul 28, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155562212032991233

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

“Elijah Cummings has had his chance to address it (crime & conditions in Baltimore) for decades, and he hasn’t gotten it done.”
@PeteHegseth @foxandfriends How can he get it done when he just wants to use his Oversight Committee to hurt innocent people and divide our Country!

8:12 AM · Jul 28, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155450979514560512

House Dems authorize subpoenas for senior White House aides' official communications

By ANDREW DESIDERIO 07/25/2019 11:32 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/25/white-house-private-communications-subpoena-1435114

The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted on Thursday to authorize subpoenas for senior White House officials’ communications via private email accounts and messaging applications, a significant escalation in a years-long, bipartisan effort to learn more about potential violations of federal record-keeping laws.

Thursday’s vote by the Democrat-led panel came after the White House refused to turn over the messages voluntarily earlier this month — including senior adviser Jared Kushner’s WhatsApp communications with foreign officials, senior adviser Ivanka Trump’s use of a private email account to conduct official business, and former chief strategist Stephen Bannon’s use of a personal mobile device for White House business.

“It makes clear that White House records belong to the public — not the president,” Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said. “The committee has already received evidence of multiple senior officials using their personal accounts to conduct official business.”

On a party-line vote, the committee authorized Cummings to subpoena all communications sent or received since President Donald Trump took office that were not forwarded to official email accounts within 20 days, as required by law. Cummings can also subpoena information about whether those messages contained classified information.

Zeke Miller
@ZekeJMiller

Trump blames Obama for West Wing air conditioning system: "now it's freezing or hot in here"

4:50 PM · Jul 26, 2019·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1154856542325432322

Rob
@daltonator
Replying to @ZekeJMiller

The WH HVAC system was renovated in 2017

you know, during his regime

https://twitter.com/daltonator/status/1154858601275678720