I think he’s being a jerk precisely because he is a petty, vindictive jerk.
It’s surely a possibility. He has proven himself to be a very small man, smaller in stature than even Jimmy Carter.
He’s going to cut off SS checks
Small man+big job = “O’loser”
He is a vindictive jerk and that is being kind. What he is doing here is simple, he is not going to let anyone P on his parade or dis him in anyway. It is the way of the obongo tribe. He got disrobed on international platform by Putin, aided by the US public so he is going to punish those he can. The biggest group in his sights is small business owners and individual proprietors who frankly hate him as a general rule. This is his moment and he is not going to let it go. Also, his buddy in the Senate gets to stick it to the tea party which tried to unseat the other POS in the Senate last election.
When the dust settles and his majesty is out of office, first thing the new hopefully right leaning president does is put a strike force group of attorneys in Nevada and indict and put in jail Reid.