The Washington Post suggests that Trump's behavior is “worthy of a banana republic.” The Wall Street Journal compares President Trump to Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Filipino autocrat Rodrigo Duterte.
What is certain is that The Donald is frustrated by the repeated defeats he has suffered at the hands of his own majority in the Senate, and Priebus was inevitably the first to be blamed.
Trump's displays of power seem more like a way of escaping a reality that is much more difficult and complex than he could have imagined as a candidate.