Maggie Haberman: Cabinet Meeting Was an ‘Endurance Test of Who Could Praise Pres. Trump More’

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HABERMAN: "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, Sean Duffy talked about a request for proposals for one of the agencies that he‘s involved with. You heard Scott Bessent talk some about, you know, the economy and the Fed. You heard Secretary 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 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 agency‘s work was. The lead point was to praise him."