Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, right, smiles following a swearing in ceremony with President Trump. In fact, according to The Washington Post's reporting, Trump privately vented about Gorsuch's disloyalty and even about pulling his nomination. The nearly year-old episode is the latest to emerge from the White House of a president engaged in a never-ending search for unquestioning loyalty and unflinching gratitude — very often in places where no president should expect it. Sometimes, as with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Trump has a very reasonable expectation of loyalty. But yet again, it just showed how Trump's demands for loyalty are often viewed as unreasonable by those around him and repeatedly test the bounds of the Constitution.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2017 15:27 UTC