Disgraced former President Trump was furious with Matt Gaetz for jokingly entering a Donald to be Speaker of the House last January because Democrats laughed in the chamber after the clerk read “the Honorable Donald J Trump of Florida has received one,” which made him plot to become Speaker himself, ABC News reports in an excerpt of their politics guy Jon Karl’s upcoming book.
“Gaetz eventually realized his stunt was upsetting the former president and switched his vote to GOP Rep Kevin Hern of Oklahoma for the next two rounds of balloting. But during that time, Trump, still stewing, told at least two people the real problem was that Gaetz had not formally nominated him for speaker. If Republicans realized he was a real candidate for speaker, Trump thought, they would have overwhelmingly voted for him,” Karl writes. So Trump then ordered Gaetz to formally nominate him, which then prompted an even bigger meltdown from the twice-impeached loser.
“Once CNN and MSNBC started mocking him, that he had the lowest vote count in history,” a Trump minion told Karl “All of a sudden, he was like, ‘Get me out of [the formal Speaker nomination]!'”