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Taking the gloves off: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell
By Holly Baxter
December 2, 2025
https://www.inkl.com/glance/news/taking-the-gloves-off-trump-just-held-the-cabinet-meeting-from-hell?first_login=true§ion=personalized
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This was a particularly awkward Cabinet meeting, which opened with almost an hour of Trump meandering about the new ballroom in the White House and whether Melania gets bothered by the construction noise; the rigged election of 2020; Joe Biden; the idea that the word affordability doesnt have a definition; Joe Biden; a very low-IQ congresswoman he doesnt like; his physical health, which is apparently impeccable because he got As on everything during his annual physical; Joe Biden; how he made Ozempic cheaper, or, as he put it, the fat drug, F-A-T, for fat people; how he didnt get the Nobel Prize even though he deserved it more than anybody else in the world; how people love to correct me even though Im right about everything; Joe Biden; how the environmentally friendly Green New Deal was a scam because they talked about global warming and all that crap; why the green tiles that, yes, Joe Biden chose for a bathroom in the White House werent very nice; why the New York Times is a bunch of losers; and, to round it all off, another description of the new ballroom.
They then, in Trumps words, went round the room quickly to give each Cabinet member a two-minute slot in which to detail their achievements to the cameras.
There are moments in American politics when the curtain lifts and whats shown behind is the countrys raw, unfiltered id staring straight into the camera. This meeting was one of those moments: a 55-minute stream-of-consciousness performance from a president who began and ended with décor critiques and featured a pep rally for ocean-based vigilantism in the middle. And of course, it was punctuated with a lot of painful, forced laughter from the people around the table.
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America is being told a story not a Franklin the Turtle story, but a much more narratively dishonest one where the president is simultaneously the victim and the hero, the builder of ballrooms and the man who will somehow abolish income tax, a charming uncle and a terrifying specter who demands loyalty at all costs. Here, grievances are policy and insults are ideology.
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https://www.youtube.com/live/pZSd7jn9CSc?si=rF24wCCsLsc_ulLO
chouchou
(2,664 posts)No..not for Donnie but for the poor bastards that have to listen to scramble nonsense for an hour.
Maybe 10 dollars a minute for the listeners....OK..perhaps times ten would be more fair. )
(Yeah, it's that bad)
marble falls
(69,991 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,886 posts)I dont know whether to laugh my ass off or worry.
marble falls
(69,991 posts)... for being TACO.
Here's the clip:
MustLoveBeagles
(14,172 posts)That's North Korea level of bootlicking.
marble falls
(69,991 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,172 posts)You are correct.
marble falls
(69,991 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,172 posts)I miss Val Kilmer.
marble falls
(69,991 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,172 posts)Don't know how I missed it in the 80's.
marble falls
(69,991 posts)... and the Magnificent Seven all the time. The Seven would be shown almost weekly and the only sports that interests me is Women's college basket ball (the only basketball and sports I find interesting because the ego's are in check and it is pure teamwork with no "star" behavior) and Genius was the only thing on the tube that day I knew I didn't hate.
Loved it. And now I see it several times a year.
3catwoman3
(28,344 posts)marble falls
(69,991 posts)
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(13,468 posts)That refuses to demand answers. Nit a fucking one of them.
Mr.Bee
(1,525 posts)His book report to them.
They will tell him what to do later.
Like when the cameras are off.
KPN
(17,077 posts)Pete rose to a junior high level as usual showing why the cartoon moniker is valid. And Luttnick! My God -- his carnival barking almost outdoes Trump! Started watching Bissent who followed but couldn't take it anymore.
Frankly, I can't believe they actually publish these Cabinet meetings on YouTube. It's nothing more than an ass kissing, rah rah, love fest. On the other hand, their pea-brained supporters most likely love the entertainment ... funniest President ever! Oh man, they really hammered Biden and the libs today! Yuk, yuk, yuk -- we own them! Trump da man!
But there is an upside to all of this. The videos are out there and can never be taken back. They are completely in the record for posterity -- and the future will not be kind to any of them, Trump, his goons or his minions. In that I can take vast satisfaction.
ShazzieB
(22,043 posts)I'm quite ready to believe that word means nothing to you and your billionaire buddies, you Orange Hellbeast! It must be nice to be able to scoff at a concept that determines whether regular people will be able to feed their families, heat their homes, and do this other word that probably means nothing to to you: SURVIVE. I wouldn't know, because I'm one of those "regular" people, but I'm sure it feels really great.
After that, the lies about how prices on everything under the sun are lower than ever started piling up higher than snow on the side of the road when the plows come through after a blizzard, and I finally just couldn't take any more. I have never loathed this creep more than I do right now, and that's a fact.
The situation we're in, where the president is obviously, blatantly, completely incompetent and all those with the power to do anything about it are going 🙈🙉🙊, is downright surreal. I. Just. Can't.

Aristus
(71,421 posts)I can't watch that leaky vomit bag for longer than about six seconds.
ShazzieB
(22,043 posts)There have been some interesting ones lately, where he is going completely freeform, bouncing from one incogerent ramble to the other, and I can watch those for a while. I find the the word salad to be strangely fascinating, because you never know what he's going to say next. Like the time hs claimed his MIT professor uncle had the unabomber (who went to Harvard, not MIT!) as a student. That was...really something!
In this video, he was reading from notes enough of the time that it quickly turned into a tedious, boring lie fest. That was where I noped out. Heard all that garbage before, not going to sit through it again. Looking at the transcript on YouTube, it looks like there were some crazy segues, but not enough to be worth sitting through all those mind numbing lies!
popsdenver
(1,250 posts)Delusional..............
3catwoman3
(28,344 posts)...seconds would be more than enough. My hat is off to you -
gfarber
(168 posts)There once was a meeting so long,
Where décor was the theme of the song.
From a ballroom brand new,
To construction noise, too
It all felt a bit less than strong.
Trump circled again and again
From the tiles to election past-ten.
With a Biden or three
Thrown in casually
A conversational whirlpool pen.
Then he called on the Cabinet crew,
Two minutes, impress mego through!
Though the laughter was tight,
They all played their part right,
As cameras captured the view.
He boasted of health with great glee,
All Asjust ask any M.D.!
From the fat drug price drop
To a Nobel non-stop,
He insisted he ranked MVP.
A rally for sea-justice came
In the middle of this sprawling frame.
Like a wave on a shore
It arrived, then no more
Yet the mood somehow stayed much the same.
He dismissed all that warming crap
And the tiles in a White House lav.
Green? Bidens design!
Never liked that shade line!
Thus the meeting stayed slightly off-map.
The Times got a mention quite sour,
Losers! he cried from his tower.
The room gave a grin,
Thin and practiced within,
As the monologue rolled by the hour.
When the curtain was lifted aside,
The nation saw id, un-supplied
A hero-victim tale,
Both the storm and the gale,
With loyalty sworn nationwide.
Lonestarblue
(13,150 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,172 posts)Breathlessly reporting.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,607 posts)Joinfortmill
(19,714 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,130 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(131,632 posts)And everyone in his cabinet obliges.
riverbendviewgal
(4,385 posts)It was a very embarrassing shit show. SNL will have a great show this Saturday with fresh ideas based on it.
Cosmocat
(15,321 posts)His cabinet meetings were North Korean style ass kissing sessions from day one.
But, somehow our media and everyone outside of our 1/3 of the country normalized his being literally insane and got really hot and bothered by the decent human being and solid Joe Biden aging.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,793 posts)Have to agree with him on that.
The rest are a bunch of lunatic ravings.
marble falls
(69,991 posts)Robert Lee Vesco (December 4, 1935 November 23, 2007[1]) was an American criminal financier. After several years of risky investments and dubious credit dealings, Vesco was alleged to have committed securities fraud. He immediately fled the ensuing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation by living in a number of Central American and Caribbean countries.[2]
Vesco was notorious throughout his life, attempting to buy a Caribbean island from Antigua to create an autonomous country and having a national law in Costa Rica made to protect him from extradition. A 2001 Slate.com article termed Vesco "the undisputed king of the fugitive financiers."[3] After settling in Cuba during 1982, Vesco was charged with drug smuggling in 1989. During the 1990s he was indicted by the Cuban government for "fraud and illicit economic activity" and "acts prejudicial to the economic plans and contracts of the state" in 1996.[4]
Vesco was sentenced to 13 years in jail by Cuba. In November 2007 the New York Times reported that he had died of lung cancer at a hospital in Havana, Cuba, five months before,[1] although it has been suggested that he faked his death.
usonian
(22,848 posts)Thank you for my inattention to this antimatter.
You're most welcome!
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