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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got into a major online battle over Trump's bombing of Iran.

AOC said Trump had committed impeachable offenses.

Trump responded with a wild, angry rant, daring Democrats to impeach him. And then AOC responded to

that by reiterating that the bombing is illegal. What struck us about this, however, is that Trump

let himself get triggered so spectacularly

at exactly the moment when all his propagandists are blaring forth the message that Trump's

handling of all this has turned him into a statesman of world historical stature.

This also seems like something Democrats can do more of, baiting Trump into stepping on his own message at key strategic moments.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte is one of our go-to experts on the pathologies of Trump and MAGA, so we're talking to Amanda about all this today.

Thanks for coming on, as always.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start with Trump's crazy eruption.

He tweeted, quote, stupid AOC, one of the dumbest people in Congress is now calling for my impeachment.

Democrats aren't used to winning and she can't stand the concept of our country being successful again.

Then Trump said a lot of stuff about AOC's IQ and rambled about fake scandals involving

Joe Biden, then talked about how he supposedly aced a recent cognitive test.

Then he said, go ahead and try impeaching me.

Make my day.

Amanda, what's your interpretation of all that?

So everything with Donald Trump, obviously, is psychological projection.

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