MSNBC主持人瑞秋·马多描述了她所谓的“总统玻璃心因素”，称其正在拖累共和党迎战中期选举，因为唐纳德·特朗普总统继续在红州为共和党候选人助选，而他的政党正在为守住国会控制权而战。
MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow described what she called the “presidential snowflake factor” that’s weighing down Republicans ahead of the midterms, as President Donald Trump continues to campaign for GOP candidates in red states while his party fights to hold onto Congress.
马多表示，特朗普在第二任期里一直在“追求让他自己感觉良好的事情”，而不是专注于能给共和党提供竞选议题的政策。
Maddow said Trump has spent his second term “pursuing things that make him feel good about himself” instead of focusing on policies that could give Republicans issues to tout to voters.
“所有的虚荣项目、给一切命名、到处摆放让他感觉富有的金光闪闪的小玩意儿，所有毫无意义且软弱无力的报复性调查和对感知敌人的企图起诉，”她说，“这一切都是为了让他感觉强大、让他感觉良好。” 《瑞秋·马多秀》主持人称，特朗普的支持率“深深深地跌进了政治厕所”，并认为他对赞誉的痴迷几乎没有给真正帮助共和党在十一月选举中获胜的策略留下空间。
“You get all the vanity projects and him naming everything, and all the gold gewgaws everywhere that make him feel wealthy, all the pointless and feckless revenge investigations and attempted prosecutions of his perceived enemies,” she said. “It’s all stuff that’s designed to make him feel powerful and to feel good about himself.”The “Rachel Maddow Show” host said Trump’s approval rating is “deep, deep, deep down in the political toilet” and argued that his preoccupation with praise has left little room for a strategy focused on actually helping Republicans in November.
“我认为很明显，他不会追求一种以支撑脆弱的共和党候选人（除了他自己）为基础的中期选举策略，”她说。
“I think it’s obvious that he’s not going to pursue a midterm strategy that is based on propping up vulnerable Republican candidates other than himself,” she said.
马多表示，特朗普已经变得如此“懦弱”和“玻璃心”，以至于只能“忍受听到关于他自己的快乐故事”。她补充道：“他只能去得到崇拜的地方，只能忍受听到‘是’。” “他只会去那些仍然喜欢他的地方，而这样的地方所剩无几。”
Maddow said Trump had become such a “wuss” and a “snowflake” that he could only “bear hearing happy stories about himself.”She added, “He can only go to places where he gets adulation, and he only can stand ever hearing ‘Yes.’”“He’s only going to go to places that still like him, and there are vanishingly few of those left,” she said.