President Donald Trump is crashing into the political reality confronting him and the Republican Party ahead of the midterms, and conservative critic George Conway said on MS NOW that the president now appears to be suffering "psychotic breaks" as a result.

Conway, a conservative attorney and the former husband of Trump ally Kellyanne Conway, has become one of the president's most prominent conservative critics over the past decade, working with The Lincoln Project and running in a Democratic primary earlier this year. On Saturday, he appeared as a panel guest on MS NOW's "The Weekend" — the cable channel formerly known as MSNBC — where panelists weighed a new report from The Washington Post finding that, despite his public "bravado," Trump "actually is starting to panic a little bit" about the likely possibility of Republicans losing the House and Senate in the midterms.

Those elections, scheduled for November 2026, will determine control of both chambers of Congress for the final two years of Trump's term. Historically, the party holding the White House has lost congressional seats in nearly every midterm election since World War II.

Democratic consultant Neera Tanden, another guest on the panel and a veteran of the Obama and Biden administrations, said the "connection" was clear between that reported panic and Trump's renewed attacks on the free press, pointing to his recent decision to bar MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House.

"And I think the truth is that I think he's deeply, deeply worried about the accountability that will come," Tanden said. "Not just now, the possibility of House Democrats being in charge, but Democrats being in charge of the Senate, which would have a big impact on his ability to nominate anyone. And so I think all of this is, you know, him being concerned that his power is finally, finally weakening."

Conway argued that Trump's thinking in response to those midterm fears is not that of a "psychologically normal and healthy person," who might step back and ask, "Am I doing something wrong?"

"Donald Trump is not that," he explained. "He's psychotic at this point. He's having psychotic breaks. He's never been in touch with reality to the extent that one would expect, one would want someone with, you know, thousands of nuclear weapons at their disposal to be. But now he's completely losing it."

"That's why Natalie Harp is feeding him this stuff," he continued. "That's why he gets so mad at the press for asking him questions that contain facts. Because he cannot deal with facts, he cannot deal with reality. The man is losing it, okay? He's losing it faster than ever. And I'm going to keep using the word psychotic because it is actually the word to describe him, and it's going to get worse."