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DDonald Trump held another television Advisors meeting on Thursday Where his team leaned toward the sycophantic image that has come to define the president’s second-term operatives.
Meanwhile, the president himself was dissatisfied with the glowing praise of his advisers and instead turned to members of the right-wing press for comfort – at the same time he bullied mainstream journalists, supported by the agreeable laughter of his aides.
Billed as a presidential announcement on the Human Trafficking Task Force, the event mirrored Trump’s recent on-camera Cabinet meetings. The President was surrounded by aides, including the Attorney General palm bondiFBI Director Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and others took turns personally explaining why he was such a great president.
Every member of Trump’s team seemed to be in a competition to use the strangest rhetoric to praise their boss, with Miller and Bondy at the top.
Miller declared, “All I have to say is, Mr. President, that this country was going to die without you. This country was really going to die without you.”
Bondy expressed praise in historic terms: “We all work so well together. I don’t think any other administration in the history of our country has worked so well together!”
Trump’s announcement of an interagency task force on human trafficking is hardly an announcement of the level that typically draws cameras at the White House, and questions in the quiz following the officials’ comments largely focused on other topics, including the decision to send National Guard troops to Portland and the Israeli Knesset vote to extend control into the West Bank, which many saw as a direct challenge to the Trump administration. saw.
its price tag The planned White House Ballroom, which started this week Demolition of the East Wing, was another topic raised by journalists.
Yet many of Trump’s responses were more notable for their style than substance as the smiling US president described individual reporters as “beauties”, including CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, refused questions from others (“Not that guy, he’s disappointing!”), and made favorable comments about how he preferred questions from Voice reporter Brian Glenn of the Trump-supporting network Real America. Dee, who got two separate chances to ask a question, and another conservative reporter who got applause for his question before it was even asked.
To CNN’s Collins, he also posed two questions, but seemingly just to debate him: “Well, you don’t know anything about crypto.[currency]You don’t know nothing about this–you don’t know anything about anything, you’re fake news.”
A French reporter even caught one of the president’s mistakes, which answered his question Knesset Vote Only after Bondy “translated” it, he told the reporter: “Beautiful pronunciation. But we can’t understand what you’re saying.”
On the subject of White House renovation, he sarcastically quipped that the White House had previously used tiles “out of the box” from Home Depot, and swore that his new construction would result in “the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.”
While the spectacle is a part of any White House, Thursday’s event comes as the president is refusing to meet with congressional Democrats to end the 22-day-long government shutdown, one of the longest in history, and the administration is under increasing pressure from Congress to take action on cost-of-living issues such as expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies and persistently high food prices.
Trump is also facing opposition from Republicans on the issue of his attacks. Against suspected “narco-terrorists” In the Gulf of Mexico, an escalating military campaign launched by the US military has now destroyed more than half a dozen ships that the White House and Defense Department claim were used by drug smugglers. The Trump administration is reportedly using the threat of military force and other means to induce regime change in Venezuela, as he campaigned against such efforts abroad during his run for the presidency in 2024.
such as his approval rating on economic issues and Border security and mass deportations continue to declineSuch meetings increasingly raise the question of whether the President is receiving criticism and an objective view from his closest advisers, who largely want to suck up the slack. The answer could be bad news for the rest of his party, approaching an election year where Trump himself will not be at the top of the ticket, but an omnipresent cloud over the head of every vulnerable Republican.