"... 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' doesn’t have a definition; Joe Biden; a 'very low-IQ congresswoman' he doesn’t like; his physical health, which is apparently impeccable because he “got A’s 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 didn’t get the Nobel Prize even though he deserved it more than anybody else in the world; how people 'love to correct me even though I’m 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 weren’t 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 Trump’s 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 what’s shown behind is the country’s 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..." -- Holly Baxter, The Independent, on the nauseating spectacle of the Malignant Fascist's latest clown Cabinet meeting in a regime where "grievances are policy and insults are ideology." As Baxter writes, what we saw was the "country's raw, unfiltered id" looking back at us. This is government by vicious toddlers, un-serious people with very lethal jobs. Americans -- at least those 77 million voters who let this deranged, narcissistic moron back into the Oval Office -- have only themselves to blame for the consequences.
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