He’s clearly totally cracking under the pressure.
...a Jeopardy they have never known.
Heck, that kind of threat might even cause a person to attempt to impeach a sitting president or even rip up the House copy of the SOTU speech right behind the president.
In the past you could just make these problems "disappear".
Now the deep state "fixers" are all lawyered up and facing their own prosecution.