President Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview over the weekend, and Charlie Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, says that “once again,” Trump is “his own worst enemy.”

“I used to say on this podcast,” says Charlie, “that if Trump could just get his worst instincts under control, he’d be in a better position. He’s not gonna do that now. He wasn’t going to do that then.”

Charlie reminds listeners that “there are elements of Donald Trump that are impressive, politically useful. . . . but he’s also a ridiculous man who is thin-skinned, who struggles with impulse control, who can’t defer gratification, and who believes all manner of things, or at least insists upon claiming to believe all manner of things, that aren’t true.”

Charlie makes the case that “a rational figure would have understood that walking out of that interview deprives him of the chance to use the pulpit that he’d been given and hands all the power to the network,” and Trump would have been better served by sticking it out.

“There is an opportunity cost. And he is, especially for someone who is supposedly a good businessman who knows the art of the deal, quite bad at calculating that opportunity cost.”

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