President Trump, who spent Friday night in a White House bunker as protests swirled around the presidential mansion, and hasn’t made a public appearance or spoken on TV since Saturday, is accusing the nation’s governors of being “weak.”

In a video conference call with the governors on Monday, Trump demanded that they “dominate” protesters against last week’s death of George Floyd while he was in police custody in Minneapolis. Some of the widespread protests began peacefully but turned violent and destructive.

Trump was joined by Attorney General William Barr in urging governors use force to “dominate” protesters.

“This call was insane,” one source told The Hill. “They just went off on governors.”

The National Guard is patrolling cities in more than half of the states, “at least 45 million Americans were under a curfew on Sunday night,” says the Washington Post. The Post also provided a full audio recording of the Monday conference call.

Trump blamed the “radical left” for the violence, reports CBS News, and said: “What happened in the state of Minnesota — they were a laughingstock all over the world. They took over the police department, the police were running down the streets. I’ve never seen anything like it and the whole world was laughing.”

There’s been much speculation about whether the street violence was instigated by “outside agitators” from the political left or right — but little evidence either way.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, directly criticized Trump’s own behavior, saying on the call that he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to speak:

“I’ve been extraordinarily concerned about the rhetoric that’s been used by you,” Pritzker told the president, adding that “we have to call for calm … but the rhetoric that’s coming out of the White House is making it worse.”

Even some of Trump’s GOP supporters appear to agree. A source told CNN that there’s “a growing sense among congressional Republicans, even allies, that [his] ‘caps lock’ tweets are not helping the situation.”

White House aides are struggling to decide whether Trump should deliver a formal speech on the complex matter, which is complicated further by the continuing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

CNN notes that “the President’s rant Monday morning to governors illustrated risks of putting Trump out to confront the protests when he is worked up and angry.”