Speaker Johnson's 'epic' weekend with Trump shows strengths and limits of his power

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was House Speaker Mike Johnson walking behind President-elect Donald Trump's entourage into Saturday night's UFC fight at Madison Square Garden, his stature overcome by the enormity of the scene around him.

And Johnson mugging with musicians Kid Rock and Jelly Roll.

And there was Johnson on Trump's airplane, peering over the seat in front of him, a four-top table loaded with McDonald's meals for the president-elect, his son Donald Trump, Jr., Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — the speaker grinning over the seatback.

“Epic,” Johnson said about it all as he arrived back at the U.S. Capitol.