CNN Panel Reacts to Trump Letting Loose at CPAC: He’s ‘Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic’

On Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered the longest speech of his presidency, speaking at CPAC for just over two hours.

During that speech, Trump slammed the media as “sick,” called the investigations against him “bullshit” and railed against Never Trumpers.

Yet, according to CNN’s S.E. Cupp, what we were seeing in that lengthy presidential performance was a president who needed the adoration of a friendly room after a really bad week.

In fact, Cupp said, Trump needed it “for his soul.”

“He is a performer. He knows he needs to perform like everything is fine,” Cupp said during a CNN panel on Saturday. “Everything is not fine.”

“He needed this,” Cupp continued on. “This was a week that really I think hit him hard, both on foreign policy and domestic and he was reveling in this. And a couple of times you thought he was done and he just kept coming back for more. He needed this rally, the adoration. He was in a friendly room. So I think putting on this performance, I’m fine, we’re great, aren’t we in a love affair, I think he needed that for his soul.”

She then added: “I think it wasn’t so much an indication of where things really are but what he needs right now.”

Former Clinton White House aide Keith Boykin then added that what Trump was really doing was “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

“It’s been a week of disasters for his presidency,” Boykin stressed. “The only thing you can do is talk to a favorable crowd.”

Watch above, via CNN