The White House cabinet meeting lasted three hours and 17 minutes, during which many department heads repeatedly praised President Donald Trump. A few officials mentioned agency business—transportation procurement, Treasury comments on the economy and the Fed, and some State Department remarks—but most remarks centered on extolling the president and asserting he had saved the country. One envoy called Trump the single finest candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president made several long digressions, including defenses of National Guard deployments, while the overall tone resembled an endurance contest of who could praise him most.
At one point, [Secretary of Transportation] Sean Duffy talked about a request for proposals for one of the agencies that he's involved with. You heard [Secretary of the Treasury] Scott Bessent talk some about the economy and the Fed. You heard Secretary [of State] 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 I think what struck me most was that, I mean, yes, it's 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 agencies' work was. The lead point was to praise him.
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