On MSNBC, The Bulwark's editor-at-large Charlie Sykes said: "Even people in that rally audience were taken aback but I am mystified that anyone is mystified that the president would go this way. You know, this is the Donald Trump we have seen over the last four or five years so anybody that is professing 'well this is a bad moment, I have no idea why Donald Trump would do this' - this is what he does when he's under pressure, when he's feeling victimised and again this is the Donald Trump we're going to be seeing now, lashing out after impeachment."