"He has always been obsessed people are laughing at the president. From the mid-'80s, he's said: 'The world is laughing at us. They think we're fools,' " said Thomas Wright, a Europe analyst at the Brookings Institution. "It's never been true, but he's said it about every president. It's the first time I'm aware of that people actually laughed at a president. I think it is going to drive him absolutely crazy. It will play to every insecurity he has."