Trump Humiliates Mike Johnson Behind Closed Doors [View all]
Source: daily beast
VENTRILOQUIST ACT
The president reportedly views the highest office in the House as little more than a puppet for his whims.
Will Neal Updated Oct. 25 2025 10:12AM EDT
Inside sources reportedly say Donald Trump has been heard privately joking about just how easily he believes he’s able to puppeteer House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“I’m the speaker and the president,” the MAGA leader is understood to have said, according to the New York Times. Citing two people with knowledge of his remarks, the newspaper further notes that Johnson’s conduct in office over the past several weeks, amid an ongoing shutdown critics fear may eventually prove the longest and most damaging on record, has done little to disabuse Trump of that notion, or anyone else.
Even before Johnson decided to suspend Congress indefinitely from October 1, the Speaker had come under fire from his opponents across the aisle for his perceived obsequiousness to the president, marching in lockstep with Trump’s agenda despite calls to use his office as a vanguard against mounting overreach from the executive branch.
Johnson was instrumental in rallying Republican officials behind the White House’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” spending proposals earlier this year, along with a host of other legislative initiatives on everything from U.S. energy dominance and border security to abortion rights and education reform, all tightly aligned with the MAGA administration’s “America First” agenda.......................................................
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But it is no joke!! @SpeakerJohnson has been #Trump's lapdog since day one!!
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"I'm the Speaker @the President" joked Trump.
Trump Humiliates @GOP @SpeakerJohnson Behind Closed Doors
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2025-10-25T14:54:12.685Z
Critics say that when Johnson's lips move, it's increasingly Trump's voice that comes out.🤑
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