Lovefest or Cabinet assembly? For Donald Trump, it’s both

Trump assembly his cupboard (AP)

WASHINGTON: Near the tip of President Donald Trump‘s marathon Cabinet assembly Wednesday, secretary of state Marco Rubio famous that the US has introduced house 47 wrongfully detained Americans up to now in Trump’s second time period.
“Forty-seven for the 47th president in the first 100 days,” Rubio stated. “And that’s all credit to you, Mr. President.”
Earlier within the session, Vice President JD Vance mused that “most” of the presidents whose portraits adorn the Oval Office, which embrace Ronald Reagan, James Madison, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln – have been mere “placeholders” who weren’t “men of action.”
And Interior Secretary Doug Burgum noticed that Trump was “not just courageous, you’re actually fearless” in taking up points that different presidents dare not contact.
“All of us can sprint, because you’re running ahead,” Burgum stated.
Trump, by no means bashful about his achievements, is often the one doing the bragging. But in a two-hour sport of one-upmanship earlier than the tv cameras on Wednesday, high Cabinet officers took turns drenching the president with reward that went past even the same old ranges of adulation from those that work for Trump.
The president assembled his Cabinet on the White House to have a good time the 100-day mark of his second time period, and every had been introduced a “Gulf of America” hat, in reference to the order Trump points to vary the title for the Gulf of Mexico, though that solely has authority throughout the United States.
Trump opened by noting that “things are happening that are amazing, but I would not say it if it weren’t fact.”
From there, the president let others do the speaking.
There was Attorney General Pam Bondi, who claimed that Trump in his second time period saved “258 million lives” as a result of quantity of fentanyl that his Justice Department has taken off the streets. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanked the president for “your vision and leadership, for giving me the 100 busiest days of my life.” Rubio stated the 47 wrongfully detained Americans have been returned house on account of Trump’s “leadership and the diplomacy that was exercised.” However, the listing of Americans was not instantly made public, and it was not clear which have been being included within the tally.
“I just want to say thank you, as a veteran of our military, for assembling what is the greatest national security team that I have ever seen in my 27 years associated with the United States Army,” stated Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who has served within the navy for greater than 20 years.
Not surprisingly, the lovefest within the Cabinet Room glossed over the turmoil that has been roiling the early days of Trump’s return to the White House: the nosediving inventory market and a contracting economic system, revelations that his senior officers have been careless, at greatest, with delicate navy info.
The gushing went too far even for some who in any other case again Trump’s insurance policies and agenda.
“Would it be possible to have a cabinet meeting without the Kim Jong il-style tributes?” conservative commentator Ann Coulter wrote on the social media web site X, referring to the North Korean dictator.
Indeed, the reward wasn’t devoted simply to the commander-in-chief. As an effusive Burgum spoke, he famous the “amazing group of people around the table” and added a fast apart to Trump: “You probably assembled the greatest Cabinet ever.”