Jealous President Obama is on Bear Grylls’ reality TV show, Donald Trump is building an internment camp for Shahs of Sunset.

America’s vulgar tweetbag may not be what the entire country deserves, but he sure is what the GOP has coming. For seven years, Republicans have obstructed the President and become a protest party, making immigration reform, to name one issue, impossible, allowing what should have been a moot point in 2015 to instead be the talking point. And the demographics don’t look kindly upon the nature that conversation has taken on. The GOP, in a sense, has turned itself and its voters into refugees, searching for a United States that no longer exists.

From Edward-Isaac Dovere at Politico:

Inside the White House, poetic justice looks a lot like Donald Trump.

Past and present aides to President Barack Obama are gloating that a Republican leadership they say defined itself by blustery opposition — and used it to win the House, then the Senate, and stand in the White House’s way at every turn — is getting devoured by a candidate personifying the anger agenda.

Obama insiders would rather have immigration reform signed than lament knowingly on Sunday talk shows that the Republicans will keep losing elections until they deal with the issue. They’d rather have a longer-term approach to government spending, or more of the entitlement and tax reform deals Obama said he was eager to cut.

But on everything from guns to reproductive health to opening up Cuba, Obama’s team says it has been battling for years the very politics that paved the way for Trump’s ascendance this election cycle.

“It’s not so much a reaction to Obama,” said one person familiar with the president’s thinking about the Trump phenomenon. “It’s more of a reaction to their strategy that, ‘We’re just going to be antithetical to everything [Obama] stands for.’”

According to people in the White House, Obama doesn’t talk about Trump much. When he does, it’s with a combination of amusement and disgust at the rhetoric, occasionally mentioning his amazement at GOP leaders’ inability to understand Trump’s supporters and the long-term damage the president thinks Trump is doing to the party with the groups of voters who will decide future elections.•