President Donald Trump's political career has brought a number of significant electoral gains for the Republican Party, but now, according to NOTUS, some are growing panicked as it appears "he doesn’t give a s——" about helping them anymore.In a report published Monday morning, NOTUS detailed a telling exchange between the president and a Republican who was reaching out to court his endorsement for a forthcoming election. The president, it seemed, was not interested in helping anymore, claiming that he had "already done enough.""When a former U.S. ambassador reached out to Donald Trump seeking his endorsement for a congressional bid, the president declined. In Trump’s mind, he’d already done enough," NOTUS detailed. "The president said he wouldn’t endorse the candidate ever again because, to him, the person would be called 'honorable' for the rest of their life. 'I literally changed your name,' Trump told the candidate in a conversation relayed to NOTUS by a person familiar with what was said."This exchange, the report argued, "is indicative of a defining feature of [Trump's] political view" as he nears the halfway point of his second term and, perhaps, the twilight of his life: "Loyalty is worth rewarding, but rewards don’t last forever." While he can seemingly still endorse GOP candidates and propel them to success, his obsession with creating a more permanent legacy has him obsessed with changing the "physical appearance of Washington." As a result, he is abandoning any sense of responsibility for the future of the Republican Party.“He was in a friend-gathering mode before,” one anonymous Republican operative told NOTUS about Trump’s relationship with Republicans in Congress. “And now he doesn’t give a s——.”"This is where the president and the Republican Party he has torn down and rebuilt now find themselves," the outlet explained. "Yes, Trump has stocked the party with loyalists. No, he doesn’t particularly care about what happens to them after he’s gone. NOTUS spoke with more than a dozen Republican former and current lawmakers and officials for this story — some who love Trump and some who decidedly do not. But they all agreed that Trump’s lasting legacy on the Republican Party is, well, Trump himself."Former Rep. Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvania Republican and vocal Trump critic, highlighted the president's ballroom as a key sign that he is checked out over the GOP's future, arguing that if he "cared about the election prospects, he wouldn’t be asking for a billion dollars for a ballroom. He certainly wouldn’t be talking about it every day.”"Trump is staring down difficult midterms followed by his lame-duck years, a period recent presidents have largely spent doing whatever is best for their party," the report added. "Barack Obama raised gobs of money for Democrats and campaigned for anyone who asked him to. George W. Bush spent the end of his presidency lying very, very low. But Trump is knee-deep in his own personal obsessions — aesthetics, revenge — and has done little to suggest he’s preparing to fortify the party for a post-Trump future."
