This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

We've noticed a funny thing about President Trump and his chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt.

She routinely fluffs Trump with astonishingly cult-like descriptions of him to reporters, ones that portray him as powerful,

calm, and completely in command of events. But then, left to his own devices on truth social,

Trump presents the opposite picture, erupting regularly in wild meltdowns and uncontrollable

hissy fits over the tiniest of slights.

We just saw a particularly unsettling version of this tension play out.

Leavitt went full North Korea with a number of worshipful monologues about Trump to reporters.

Yet around the same time, a reporter's criticism of Trump caused him to explode in a wild,

triggered fury.

This doesn't seem like a good way to run the executive branch of a great nation, so we're

going to try to dig through all this with Salon columnist Andamarkat, who knows how to read

magapathologies, particularly male ones, like nobody else.

Amanda, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start with Caroline Levitt.

At the press briefing on Friday, Levitt was asked if Trump will visit some of the sites of

private real estate deals that his company is made in the Middle East during his

upcoming trip there.

Then this happened.

Let me just get to the premise of your question that both of you have raised.

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