easily provoked

Trump is notoriously thin-skinned and easily provoked.

Why they should be so easily provoked by trolls and charlatans is an interesting question, but also one that might get in the way of an appreciation of their creator’s strengths.

In 2015, the appellate judges ruled in favor of the child welfare agency, finding that Ms. Jones, despite completing mandated parenting skills and anger management programs, was still “prone to unpredictable emotional outbursts,” even on supervised visits with her older children, and was “easily provoked and agitated.”

He writes about how he was easily provoked to self-righteous anger.

Obsessed with conspiracy theories fed to him by Powell, his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and other allies, he has aired grievances at will on Twitter and been easily provoked to lash out at aides.