David Pakman

Do you agree with that?

Well, listen, what I think the president is getting at is that he's been treated unfairly.

And what I think we really need to be focused on here, focusing on here is if we step back and look at the bigger picture, we need to make sure that the DOJ is not being.

These are becoming sort of like rescue missions.

I need to save myself.

And the flat out the president is right.

You are hearing less and less and less of that.

Now, I believe that this shift is most visible behind the scenes.

It's not visible to us, but it's visible to the people around Donald Trump.

If you look at how policy

and day to day operations are being handled, it does not feel like this is top down from Donald Trump.

Now, who is in charge?

We're going to get to.

But the point is, it seems as though people are building around Donald Trump because the plans never quite align with Trump's rhetoric and messaging.

And so there's pivots, pivots, pivots.

The decisions aren't being made so much to follow Trump's direction.

They're being made to limit the fallout.

And this points to what for a lot of these Republicans, as we approach 2028, is going to be a really difficult thing to figure out.

Trump has massive power.

But power and respect are different things.