The Hill
Advisers say Donald Trump has lately been sullen and erratic in private and easily rattled by perceived slights, according to The New York Times.
A series of flubs led Trump’s daughter Ivanka, her husband and a number of confidants to privately meet with him in June and ask him to take his campaign in a new direction, the report said.
But the Trump has shown little change, becoming ensnared in a controversy after controversy.
This past week alone, he called President Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and discussed the idea that “Second Amendment folks” stop Hillary Clinton from naming liberal justices to the Supreme Court.
More than 20 Republicans interviewed by the Times described Trump as exhausted, frustrated, unwilling to accept advice and still confused by some points of the political process.
Trump was reportedly upset that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in his re-election announcement he would stand up to the next president regardless of party.