'Bizarre disconnection': MS NOW's Chris Hayes says Trump doesn't care if Republicans lose

President Donald Trump no longer even cares if the Republican Party gets blown out in the midterms, MS NOW's Chris Hayes argued in a panel leading up to the president's first State of the Union Address of his second term.

Or at least, Hayes said, he doesn't care about it to the extent that it isn't a personal problem for himself.

"Donald Trump is a very gifted communicator in his own weird way, but he doesn't persuade like he does a lot of things," said Hayes. "He propagandizes, he bullies, he repeats. He kind of gets these like brain, these earworms that stick with you, you know, like even that you use in common speech, like, you know, big, strong guy comes up to me," referring to a recent Trump anecdote in which he claims a factory owner tried to kiss him. "But the thing he doesn't do, that most presidents do, is persuade. He doesn't persuade."

"That relates to something I think that — that is the core of what's happening tonight," Hayes continued. "To his point, I don't think he cares about the politics. He doesn't care about the fate of some some hapless swing-district Republican. He had this plan to rig the midterms because he doesn't want to lose Congress, doesn't want to get impeached, and he doesn't want to get prosecuted, basically. But he doesn't care about the fates of these people."

Rather, Hayes said, he just "wants to be president. He wants — he likes to move the carrier groups in the Middle East, get these big baubles from foreign leaders, put tariffs on people. He, he, he has a bizarre disconnection at this point from the normal political incentives of a normal president operating in a normal system because his aspirations are not normal. They are to rule as a dictator or, you know, never run again."

"I don't know, but there's nothing there's no incentives in him to do the thing that would persuade the median voter to come back to the Trump agenda," he added.

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