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Rhiannon12866

(242,079 posts) Wed Aug 27, 2025, 12:57 AM Aug 27

Psaki: Bizarre Trump Cabinet suck-up meeting feeds his misguided interest in dictatorship - The Briefing w/Jen Psaki MSNBC

Jen Psaki shares samples of the gross, sycophantic fawning of Donald Trump's Cabinet members at a group meeting that leaves little wonder why Trump thinks "a lot of people say" he should be a dictator. His own Cabinet already treats him like one. - Aired on 08/26/2025.

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Psaki: Bizarre Trump Cabinet suck-up meeting feeds his misguided interest in dictatorship - The Briefing w/Jen Psaki MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 OP

It was all a variation Uncle Joe Aug 27 #1

Well, I found it cringeworthy. As Chris Hayes said tonight, he's the most criminal president in our history Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 #2

I thought South Park wrote their dialogue Uncle Joe Aug 27 #3

Oh, they should use that! It would be great! Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 #4

I almost switched that off when I was watching it. Although it was cringeworthy to witness, it is critical KitFox Aug 27 #5

Thanks! And I admit that I couldn't watch the whole thing, it made me feel that sick and disgusted Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 #6

MaddowBlog-Trump's groveling, cult-like White House Cabinet meetings go from bad to worse LetMyPeopleVote Aug 27 #7

LOL LetMyPeopleVote Aug 27 #8

LOL! Perfect!!! Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 #9

Uncle Joe

(63,063 posts)

1. It was all a variation

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:22 AM

Aug 27

of his cabinet telling *rump that he doesn't have a small penis.

Thanks for the thread, Rhiannon

Rhiannon12866

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2. Well, I found it cringeworthy. As Chris Hayes said tonight, he's the most criminal president in our history

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:32 AM

Aug 27

Followed by a whole list of examples. I've tried to name them, but there are so many that I can never think of them all at once!

Uncle Joe

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3. I thought South Park wrote their dialogue

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:33 AM

Aug 27

Rhiannon12866

(242,079 posts)

4. Oh, they should use that! It would be great!

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:36 AM

Aug 27

KitFox

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5. I almost switched that off when I was watching it. Although it was cringeworthy to witness, it is critical

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:37 AM

Aug 27

to see such a display of utter self humiliation on display to remind us why we have to keep persisting and resisting. He did that in his first term, as well, but the slobbering groveling seems to have soared off the chart. What fresh hell: a 3 hour meeting of him spewing lies and nonsense and the supplicants trying to out sycophant each other. And for the icing on the dear leader cake, they film and air it. Thank you for posting the video. We need to be ever vigilant! Yikes!

Rhiannon12866

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6. Thanks! And I admit that I couldn't watch the whole thing, it made me feel that sick and disgusted

Reply to KitFox (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:56 AM

Aug 27

Are these people serious or are they just sucking up to keep jobs they know they aren't qualified for?? He has to be the most offensive - and criminal - individual ever to hold public office, but then we know that according to the Constitution that makes him totally unqualified to ever hold public office in this country. I second your yikes!

LetMyPeopleVote

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7. MaddowBlog-Trump's groveling, cult-like White House Cabinet meetings go from bad to worse

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 12:59 PM

Aug 27

The president’s Cabinet meetings from his first term were sycophantic and cringe-worthy. In his second term, they’re worse.

In Trumpâ€™s first term, his groveling White House Cabinet meetings became a national punch-line.

In his second term, theyâ€™re even more cult-like. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-27T15:34:22.776Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-groveling-cult-white-house-cabinet-meetings-go-bad-worse-rcna227501

As regular readers might recall, the president went around the room, offering each member of his team an opportunity to genuflect about how happy they were to be associated with him. The result was nothing short of creepy. John Harwood‏, apparently flabbergasted, said at the time, “Honestly this is like a scene from the Third World.” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and his staff quickly put together a satirical meeting in the New York senator’s conference room, mocking the tone and the rhetoric of Trump’s gathering.

Though it hardly seemed possible, eight years later, the conditions have become even more cringe-worthy. The New York Times published a great analysis of the Republican’s latest Cabinet meeting:

There in the Cabinet Room — which is starting to take on the gilded-cage look of Mr. Trump’s Oval Office — all of the president’s men and women took their turns, each working a little bit harder than the last to offer Mr. Trump praise and to assure him that they were working to tackle his long list of grievances.

.....In one especially memorable example, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer — who recently spent thousands of dollars on a giant picture of the president that now hangs on the front wall of the Department of Labor’s headquarters — told Trump, “Mr. President, I invite you to see your big, beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor, because you are really the transformational president of the American worker. ... I was so honored to unveil that yesterday.”

Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-26T17:42:01.140Z

......For Americans, a display like this one is jarring and unfamiliar, but for some international audiences, the White House gathering might seem more familiar. As The Washington Post reported, “The meeting ... bore similarities to meetings of ministers in other countries where leaders have sought to exert strong, personal control over large stretches of national life, scholars said, including in Russia and Turkey.”

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, the director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and a former intelligence analyst in the first Trump administration focused on Russia, told the Post, “It is definitely a widespread phenomenon with a lot of these personalist leaders.”

LetMyPeopleVote

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8. LOL

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 04:25 PM

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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T20:10:16.315Z

Rhiannon12866

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9. LOL! Perfect!!!

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #8)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 08:28 PM

Aug 27

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