President Trump has an obsession with how others view him, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said this weekend.
“This is who he is,” Steele told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “This is a guy obsessed with his own self-image; how his numbers are doing, whether everything is playing to a narrative he has developed in his own head.”
He said that Trump has a hard time grappling with negative feedback from voters, the press, and lawmakers who have differing agendas.
“You have 535 members of Congress who have a different view. You have Cabinet secretaries who, while they might work for you, still carry out different agendas,” he said.
Steele added: “Not everyone listens to you just because you’re president.”
