Trump Humiliates Mike Johnson Behind Closed Doors

[riversedge]

Source: daily beast





VENTRILOQUIST ACT
The president reportedly views the highest office in the House as little more than a puppet for his whims.
Will Neal Updated Oct. 25 2025 10:12AM EDT

Inside sources reportedly say Donald Trump has been heard privately joking about just how easily he believes he’s able to puppeteer House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“I’m the speaker and the president,” the MAGA leader is understood to have said, according to the New York Times. Citing two people with knowledge of his remarks, the newspaper further notes that Johnson’s conduct in office over the past several weeks, amid an ongoing shutdown critics fear may eventually prove the longest and most damaging on record, has done little to disabuse Trump of that notion, or anyone else.

Even before Johnson decided to suspend Congress indefinitely from October 1, the Speaker had come under fire from his opponents across the aisle for his perceived obsequiousness to the president, marching in lockstep with Trump’s agenda despite calls to use his office as a vanguard against mounting overreach from the executive branch.

Johnson was instrumental in rallying Republican officials behind the White House’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” spending proposals earlier this year, along with a host of other legislative initiatives on everything from U.S. energy dominance and border security to abortion rights and education reform, all tightly aligned with the MAGA administration’s “America First” agenda.......................................................




Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-donald-trump-humiliates-house-speaker-mike-johnson-behind-closed-doors/

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But it is no joke!! @SpeakerJohnson has been #Trump's lapdog since day one!!

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"I'm the Speaker @the President" joked Trump.

Trump Humiliates @GOP @SpeakerJohnson Behind Closed Doors

Critics say that when Johnson's lips move, it's increasingly Trump's voice that comes out.🤑

www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2025-10-25T14:54:12.685Z

[riversedge]

1. Also see this DU thread...........

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220748678#post7

[Javaman]

2. Tiny johnson is a backbencher who is completely

Unqualified for the job as speaker let alone job as a rep. He’s a cowardly fool who thinks leadership is asking trump how high he needs to jump for trump

[Bev54]

6. Let's face it, Johnson is absolutely ripe for blackmail and control. There is a reason he was

made speaker.

[slightlv]

25. Yes... he was put there to push forward theocratic laws on the people

of the United States. The fact he was terrified of trump was just a good "gimme" ....

[hlthe2b]

3. Well, on this he's a truthful bully...

And my contempt for his "little Johnson" could scarcely be more intense.

[Solly Mack]

4. There is a level of obsequiousness that one can reach that puts them beyond humiliation.

Mike Johnson has achieved that level. He now hears humiliation as praise and actively seeks it out.

[Bayard]

5. Yes, Master....

Give me another whack please, Sir. Small wonder that trump hated Speaker Pelosi.

[republianmushroom]

7. Hell, everybody knows this, mikey is trumps puppet,

as trump is Putin puppet.

[BattleRow]

11. Puppetry a trois...

[calimary]

18. A trumpet puppet!

Hey, that actually has a nice ring to it. I may have to start calling him that.

Especially considering that it’s what he actually IS.

[bronxiteforever]

8. The House Squeaker thought he was Moses

but he is just more Trump roadkill. Maybe RFK jr will make a stew out of Johnson’s career.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Much like Moscow Mitch

You must support your Master little lap dogs.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"

[gfarber]

12. The Puppet Strings

A president grinned with delight,
At a Speaker who’d not put up fight.
“With my whims he complies,
And repeats all my lies—
It’s like ventriloquism done right!”

In Congress, the gavel now hums,
To the tune of a man who still drums.
For each MAGA decree,
Mike nods dutifully—
As democracy twiddles its thumbs.

“I’m both Speaker and Chief!” Trump declared,
And his cronies all clapped, unimpaired.
Johnson smiled from the side,
With obedience wide—
For rebellion? He’d never have dared.

As the government shuttered once more,
And the critics cried, “This is war!”
Mike said, “Just be still—
It’s one big, beautiful bill!”
While the nation kept eyeing the door.

When the call came from Trump’s gilded den,
Johnson nodded again and again.
For his post, though quite grand,
Seems run by one hand—
And it’s not the one holding the pen.

[chowder66]

13. What he says about Johnson, he says about every Republican in Congress who doesn't do shit about it.

[irisblue]

14. Suffer Mikey, suffer long and hard you ambulatory jellybag

[barbtries]

15. the headline should be

krasnov observed telling the truth.

I'm increasingly worried that a. the House will not come back, and b. the shutdown will not end.

[aggiesal]

16. Another little Johnson in a position of authority. n/t

[C Moon]

17. trump was finally right about something

[Marcuse]

19. !

[blue_jay]

21. He'll always be Pornocchio to me...

I swear he looks like Geppetto's boy, sadly...

[Marcuse]

24. He needs an app that alerts him to being screwed.

[Kablooie]

20. Second in line for the presidency.

Something happens to T and V and he will be our next president.

[ChicagoTeamster]

22. That's because he's blackmailing him like almost everyone else in the MAGA GOP.

He got rid of everyone else that wasn't compromised. You think the Christian lawyer who was dean of a law school that never opened that was named after and was also run by the head of the Southern Baptist Convention, Paul Pressler, who was accused of sexual misconduct by numerous young men doesn't have other skeletons in his closet? His wife has a controlling interest in an LLC named Onward Christian Education Services, Inc that wasn't disclosed until after it was exposed by media, and there's the Grindr issue. Think there's not more? What's been disclosed so far is more than enough to disqualify him from office from an ethics standpoint. But Trump pushed for him specifically. Not because he likes him. Trump doesn't really like many people. For him, relationships are transactional. Trump is getting something. Johnson isn't. So how is Trump pulling Johnson's strings?

[Blue Owl]

23. Doormat Johnson and Chairman tRump

What a hellish couple they make….

[Wonder Why]

26. Toady Johnson, even The Thing thinks you're a loser.