'Something is wrong': James Carville goes after Trump's mysterious Walter Reed visits

Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville took a few swings at President Donald Trump on Tuesday's edition of Ari Melber's "The Beat," pointing out his health decline — as he has done on prior occasions — but also his total lack of interest in working on major policy issues that are rapidly beginning to define his second term.

Nothing better exemplifies this, he and Melber agreed, than Trump's repeated recent claims that he doesn't care about Americans' financial situation because the Iran war is more important. When a reporter asked Trump to what extent Americans' financial situation was motivating him to make a deal with Iran, Trump was blunt: "Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon."

"He may not care because he doesn't care whether other House Republicans who tried to back him up every which way, whether they lose their seat," said Melber. "So that's part of that message, whether that works."

He then played a number of clips of Republicans, including one featuring Trump's now-infamous comment about Americans' financial situation. Carville had a field day with the line.

"That's a new message," he said. "I've never in all my years in politics — I've never heard the leader of a political party say, I don't care if we win the election or not, matters nothing to me. And maybe he is so self-absorbed that that's true."

Ultimately, Carville said, "something is wrong here. This guy goes to Walter Reed more than I go to the bathroom. I mean, there's something here that's just not adding up. And I'm not sure that we know what it is, but I suspect at some point we will know."

The problem, he said, is that Trump may find all of this boring in his current mental state, "but I'll tell you who's not bored: our people on the Gerald R. Ford that were deployed for nine months, I guarantee you they're not bored. I guarantee you, the pilots that are flying these missions or ships that are guarding these things, they're not bored at all."

For a president to say something like that, Carville added, is "almost impossible to digest."

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