Banta, Banta is terrible. I hate being on the cold open.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias. Joining me today

We've got our White House reporter Andrew Prokop and Tara Gullsham who covers congressional Republicans mostly

and that is a great pair to talk about Donald Trump's relationship with congressional Republicans. It's hard for a lot to really happen while Congress is on recess

But Trump is is nothing if not a news machine who has generated through his his tweets and and rally remarks a

surprising level of

Entroparty

Desension over the past the past week or two and I think maybe Andrew can help help set us up with some of what what he's been saying in doing

lately

so basically while on this vacation Trump has been

stoking through

tweets through public comments and

apparently also through private

angry phone calls with

Republicans

a sort of feud with

Republican leaders in Congress and certain

key Republican members of Congress who he is angry at for one reason or another

One of the most visible parts of this feud was when

technically Mitch McConnell started the feud by offering this sort of mild rebuke of Trump and saying at an event in Kentucky that he

didn't have a ton of

experience with things like legislation and his expectations were too high Trump responded by going

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