Trump Aggressively Lashes Out At Koch Brothers During Tuesday AM Mental Breakdown

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U.S. President Donald Trump continues to go it alone. He established himself before taking office as interested mostly in taking counsel from himself — that’s his own sentiment — and he hasn’t changed course. Where other Republicans might be inclined to be “nice” to the Republican megadonor Koch brothers, Trump couldn’t care less.

In an early Tuesday Twitter rant, he went after the pair for supposedly being irrelevant in his MAGA-topia.

He wrote, in part:

‘The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas… Their network is highly overrated, I have beaten them at every turn. They want to protect their companies outside the U.S. from being taxed, I’m for America First & the American Worker – a puppet for no one. Two nice guys with bad ideas.’

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The irony of the president’s claims is that his policies are hurting American workers in a tangible fashion. His trade wars aren’t good for American business, and retaliatory tariffs have forced a number of major companies to make adjustments. Rounds of U.S. tariffs and global retaliatory tariffs don’t amount to “powerful trade.” Trump doesn’t get to get away with painting the Kochs as the only bad guys here.

His present criticism comes after the megadonors refused to get behind a Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who’s up for re-election this year. She’s running in a state that Trump won by a significant margin, although elsewhere in the country, Democrats in special elections have already proven victorious in special elections held where Trump won by a significant margin. Democrats need to hold onto all of their current seats and take two more to become the majority party in the U.S. Senate, and with Democrats maintaining a large lead in Congressional ballot polling, the GOP has some work to do if they want to keep power.

That does not concern the Koch network enough to back Republican Kevin Cramer. Their political organization Americans for Prosperity revealed recently that the Koch network ads in support of Heitkamp aren’t a one-off deal. According to the organization’s CEO Elizabeth Seidel, the entity is now fully prepared to get behind Democrats if they find common ground on issues important to them like de-regulation.

Charles Koch himself recently told reporters:

‘I don’t care what initials are in front or after somebody’s name.’

The precedent for the Kochs bucking the mainstream GOP establishment stretches back to the 2016 election season, when they refused to pour money into the Trump campaign. In the time since, they and their allies have gone after a number of specific Trump administration policy directions, including the aforementioned tariffs and ensuing trade wars. Charles Koch himself also compared the infamous Muslim ban to Nazism.

We see in the above tweets how Trump took all of these developments. He remains ridiculously sensitive to whether or not certain interests support him. Instead of trying to serve the interests of the people of the United States and earn broader support, he just keeps whining on Twitter.

Check out Twitter’s response below.

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