Inside sources reportedly say Donald Trump has been heard privately joking about just how easily he believes he’s able to puppeteer House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“I’m the speaker and the president,” the MAGA leader is understood to have said, according to the New York Times. Citing two people with knowledge of his remarks, the newspaper further notes that Johnson’s conduct in office over the past several weeks, amid an ongoing shutdown critics fear may eventually prove the longest and most damaging on record, has done little to disabuse Trump of that notion, or anyone else.

Even before Johnson decided to suspend Congress indefinitely from October 1, the Speaker had come under fire from his opponents across the aisle for his perceived obsequiousness to the president, marching in lockstep wi

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