The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman suggested the main purpose of Donald Trump’s latest lengthy meeting of his Cabinet was for him to be absolutely lavished with praise.
Tuesday’s 3-hour, 17-minute meeting saw Trump’s top officials appearing to compete over how much they could suck up to the president, as they have done in similar circumstances before.
“What I heard was an endurance test of who could praise President Trump more,” Haberman, who has reported on Trump for years, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“There were some people who were talking about what their agencies were doing,” Haberman acknowledged. “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.”
“I think what struck me most was that, 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 agencies’ work was,” she concluded. “The lead point was to praise him.”
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