Updated 9:12 a.m. | With his White House again embroiled in a crisis and President Donald Trump wondering who he can trust, he touted the support of a new friend: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon published an op-ed by an anonymous “senior official in the Trump administration” that said Trump is “facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader” in the form of officials across the government “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”

Shortly after it was posted online, reporters found closed doors in the West Wing as aides scrambled to craft a response a deal with a reportedly livid president. They could not contain Trump’s anger, and he raged at an event with sheriffs at what he called the “gutless op-ed.”

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The president ranted as the law enforcement officials looked on, saying the author someone “probably who’s failing, and probably who’s here for all the wrong reasons.” As he left the room, aides already were trying to determine who wrote the scathing opinion piece that alleges a “two-track presidency” with Trump doing one thing and many in the government doing another — even actively trying to drag out or stifle his policy whims.