​Trump made a telling reveal as he quietly stopped toying with this illegal plan: analyst

President Donald Trump has long entertained a particularly absurd and illegal idea. But in recent months, it appears far less commonly in his speeches, wrote columnist Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times — and it might show he is aware of his crashing popularity and weakening hold over his own party.

For starters, Bouie wrote, Trump's second term never had to go like this. There was a path for him to be a relatively popular, or at least relatively drama-free, president, and it could have made him more dangerous.