Trump, Hill Republicans go separate ways for the summer amid brewing civil war

President Trump and the Republican Congress went their separate ways for the summer on Thursday amid an escalating GOP civil war fueled by mutual distrust and frustration.

Trump is chafing at what he views as his subordinates in Congress failing to repeal Obamacare even as they worked against him with Democrats to pass legislation limiting his ability to cut deals with Russia — a major embarrassment for the self-styled master negotiator.

Republicans are fed up with daily distractions from a chaotic White House and a president who complains but they feel won't get his hands dirty, seemingly preferring to brag about his personal brand on Twitter than committing the full weight of his leadership to passing big legislation — like healthcare reform.

"There's been lack of a vision there — and you have to stay on it," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said. "The problem with the White House is, they're for everything. If you're for everything, you wind up being for nothing."

As the Republican-controlled Congress departed Washington for a five-week recess and Trump prepared to decamp to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., for most of August, the breakdown in trust that was tenuous to begin with threatened to reach irreparable levels and torpedo what was left of their agenda.