Trump Tears Into Senate GOP for Playing ‘Soft’ While Dems Champ at the Bit to Seize Permanent Power

President Donald Trump accused Senate Republicans on Wednesday of playing “soft” and warned that time is running out for changes in the upper chamber of Congress to stave off a Democratic power grab.

In particular, Trump demanded the GOP majority eliminate the filibuster that’s keeping the SAVE America Act from passing, and replace the body’s parliamentarian — a key post that makes decisions about rules of procedure.

And his language was characteristically blunt when it came to Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who has held the job since the first Obama administration.

“Shockingly, Republicans have kept the very important position of ‘Parliamentarian’ in the hands of a woman, Elizabeth MacDonough, who was appointed, long ago, by Barack Hussein Obama and a vicious Lunatic known as Senator Harry Reid, who ran the Senate for the Dumocrats with an ‘iron fist,’” Trump wrote.

“Over the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not