The president said things like that to pretty much everyone. From my point of view, one frequent victim was White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. If you ever watched the TV show The Office, the boss on that show, Michael Scott, had a sworn enemy in the character Toby, the human resources rep who constantly told him what he couldn’t do. That was how Trump seemed to feel about the White House lawyers. He didn’t like them telling him that things he wanted to do were unethical or illegal. So he’d scream at them. But then he’d usually listen. And then yell at them again later.
