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Article snippet: WASHINGTON — By preventing President Barack Obama from filling a Supreme Court vacancy, Senator Donald J. Trump the signature accomplishment of his young presidency: the confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. But any gratitude President Trump felt for Mr. McConnell’s first-of-its-kind maneuver appears to be exhausted as the president, upset at the failed health care repeal, has turned his Twitter fire and fury on Mr. McConnell, the one person he may most need to execute a stalled Republican legislative agenda. It was a strikingly public display of the growing distance and distrust between the president and his supposed Republican allies on Capitol Hill, one with major implications for navigating a complex set of obstacles the party faces next month, from keeping the government open to preventing a devastating fiscal default. One Republican said it would be as if F.D.R. had undermined Eisenhower on the eve of D-Day. The unusual intramural conflict had the capital’s full attention even as the United States and North Korea traded warlike nuclear threats. Mr. McConnell, traveling in his home state, Kentucky, during the August recess, touched off the feud on Monday when he seemed to question the president’s grasp of the complexities of government. He told the Rotary Club of Florence that because of the president’s inexperience in public office, “he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.” Mr. McConnell, the majority lead... Link to the full article to read more