""the template for the Cabinet secretaries who now wait in line to flatter Trump in long, televised White House meetings,""
""Long-term service to Trump," Parker notes, "requires both egomania and its opposite: self-annihilation.""
""'Tariffs' is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.""
""We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.""
The supporting cast of Donald Trump's Presidency consists of conspicuous strivers and ruthless operators. Peter Navarro is a senior trade adviser who has worked for the President during both terms and combines performative egomania with self-erasure. Cabinet secretaries and advisers often engage in televised displays of flattery. Long-term service to Trump demands both grandiosity and abasement. Several administration figures speak in blunt, provocative language about tariffs, personality, the swamp, and the F.B.I. A roster of named officials includes Pam Bondi, Howard Lutnick, Laura Loomer, Russell Vought, Lauren Boebert, Kash Patel, and Peter Navarro. A matching-quote quiz tests recognition of their voices.
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