Maggie Haberman: Cabinet Meeting A 'Test of Who Could Praise Trump More'
By: Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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CNN's Maggie Haberman offered a blunt assessment of Tuesday's meeting at the White House, where cabinet secretaries tried to outdo one another in their praise of President Donald Trump.
The meeting lasted three hours and 17 minutes, or about the amount of time it takes to fly from San Francisco to Austin. Trump took questions from reporters, but also received all kinds of praise from his department heads and other top officials. At one point, Steve Witkoff, the Middle East envoy, called Trump "the single finest candidate" for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hours later on CNN's The Source, host Kaitlan Collins marveled at the length of the meeting.
"What did you make of the cabinet meeting overall?" she asked Haberman. "And what you heard from around the table?"
Haberman replied:
What I heard was an endurance test of who could praise President Trump more. There were some people who were talking about what their agencies were doing. At one point, [Secretary of Transportation] Sean Duffy talked about a request for proposals for one of the agencies that he's involved with. You heard [Secretary of the Treasury] Scott Bessent talk some about the economy and the Fed. You heard Secretary [of State] Marco Rubio do some of that.
But generally, what you heard was a competition for who could tell President Trump that he had saved the country more. And they started trying to one up each other. And I think what struck me most was that, I mean, yes, it's it was a sort of remarkable duration, obviously, but I assume a lot of those people, including the president of the United States, had other things to do other than sit and do this when it was not purely about what the agencies' work was. The lead point was to praise him.
Trump went on several digressions during the meeting. At one point, he addressed criticisms that he has been acting like an authoritarian in light of his National Guard deployments to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
"So the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime," he said. "So a lot of people say, you know, 'If that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.' But I'm not a dictator. I just had to stop crime."
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Steve Witless, Trumps international envoy, called Trump the single greatest Nobel Peace Prize candidate in history.
This crap went on for three hours.
Don't these people have jobs to do? Like saving the country because according to our resident right wing it's in terrible shape after the Biden years
Apparently they think their jobs are stroking Trump.
The first time his cabinet did this in the first days of his 2017 term, it was bizarre but had some entertainment value. Now it is just demented.
Hardly enough time to give the 'Emperor" enough compliments on his and our, new Law suit, that doesn't quite fit US
Three hours and 17 minutes. It was Trump's record setting 7th cabinet meeting. The dumb fuck Biden only had one and was barely able to take questions. Trump may love having his cabinet secretaries give him praise, which I hate seeing btw, but he is the most transparent President in history.
And Maggie remains a partisan hack.
Unlike YOU!
Yep, and we can see right through him and every one of his dumb fucking lies.
They always say he is transparent. As you say, why is that a plus if he spends all his time lying? Trump is almost never asked the questions millions of people would like to see him asked. He is NEVER put on the spot by our subservient media.
All the way from California
So, America is now North Korea?
I watched that insanity and it made me sick to my stomach!
He answered questions from media without have them pre submitted so he could read answers from note cards, so that's an improvement.
When his answers are mostly LIES, no, no that is not an improvement.
It is sickening and disturbing to watch this side show embarrass the fck out of our once great nation. Open your eyes for ******* sake
Again, the people who were perfectly happy with the "independent" press engaging in a kabuki theatre production of a press conference to prop up a President who was too addled to answer questions spontaneously are whining about a President being complimented by his own employees.
Amazing to see.
Intelligent people are embarrassed for our country when they see this crap.
Only thing Amazing to see, is someone who can't see what they look like defending this sickening fealty to the child king Trumpy the chumpy, the chunky pos punky who is our attention and praise seeking junkie, whose needs and needles, cause little pricks to defend insecure liters with little prix, who prefer Putins' little sticks, in his muddled puddled profusely profound orifice, asz inn both from which he a tempts to speak his craft, when in the way isn't Putins' shaft
How embarrassed were you when the last President held "press conferences" where he was given notecards with the pictures of the reporters he was allowed to call on with the questions preprinted on them?
You are easily amazed, were you also astounded? His cabinet threw a vacuum on the room, I'm sure I heard a very distinct sucking.
Really? And did you see those "note cards"?
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Biden spotted holding a note card with reporters’ photos and names to call on at joint presser | Fox News
Maybe you need to take a good, hard look at your "news" sources if you did not know about this, and it was only one instance.
dont troll by acting like no one has ever proved he is a pathological liar.
only warning.
I asked about this one particular instance, which was the claim.
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Was Joe Biden a pathological liar?
Faux news is an "entertainment source", they admitted to it. Must be one of Hegseth's breaking stories!
Link?
How about Newsweek? Are they a far right source now?
Joe Biden Notecard Detailing Instructions For President Revealed - Newsweek
It doesn't matter how many times the links are provided. It doesn't fit their narrative so they'll keep ignoring it.
I'd rather see Biden stand silent or recognize reporters off note cards than see a president sit there every day and talk like a moron and lie dozens of times every day. This idea thats all is ok because trump is transparent is totally laughable.
What do U think of the Fox Entertainment proof ?
After watching them go around the room praising Cheeto Jesus, I couldn't have cringed any harder if I saw Barbara Bush in a bukake video.
No one has shown any proof.
Tucker Carlson and Ingraham are both opinion based shows with entertainment mixed in.
Shows like Brett Baer are straight news programming.
You can say the same about CNN and MSDNC, but because they feed you the propaganda you WANT to hear and believe every word of, you think the entirety of their program is strictly news.
BTW...the source used in the link, The Public, is a far left site, so of course they are going to distort what is factual.
that is a bold face lie. FOX "NOT NEWS" testified in COURT they were NOT a NEWS source!
Did you see Murdochs and their lawyers arguments ?
Did you read the link ?
That was FOX NOT NEWS being Quoted that they should not be 'Trusted ' as a News Source!
WTF guy, do you think they would have settled the Trump Stolen Election case for over three quarters of a BILLION DOLLARS if they were not guilty ? please
And I don't take CNN and MSNBC as completely factual, as all three cater to their designed audiences, thus Y, I will watch any and all to gain maximum context, so as I can make my own damn informed decisions about what is, and what isn't, FACT!
True, Iggy...
No! President Biden was/is an honest man.
Trump is the worst liar on the planet
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One would have to do a lot of excessive kowtowing to top what I watched on the TV news the President of South Korea do.. The South Koreans must be humiliated.
Anybody who bows to Trump has no intelligence or honor and their folk should vote them out of office ASAP!
Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and I'm sure countless musicians sure as hell don't bow to Trump.