CNN Analyst Laughs Out Loud At Trump Cabinet Sucking Up: ‘Look At Them All Just Clapping!’

CNN Senior Political Analyst Mark Preston laughed out loud at members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet cheering as Trump threatened to eject anyone who was “unhappy” with Elon Musk.

Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday afternoon, during which he and the assembled members engaged in the characteristic praise-off that occurred at these events in his first term. But there was also a moment when Trump made a pointed joke about potential dissatisfaction with Musk.

On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN News Central, Preston was amused by the scene and the subtext he laid out as a trickling response to “threats” from Trump:

SIDNER: Yes. This is another thing that we were all watching, Donald Trump giving a really strong endorsement to Elon Musk, who was at the first cabinet meeting, not a cabinet member, but he was at the meeting. And I thought it was interesting that he was like, is anybody unhappy, to the room, to his cabinet? And they all clapped. I think everyone is not only happy, they’re ecstatic, they’re thrilled, Donald Trump said to his cabinet, what do you make of all of this?

PRESTON: Well, you know what? Let’s have the president himself, let’s hear what he had to say, because it is so interesting about — it says so much in such a little bit of period of time about what we’re going to see over the next few weeks, next few months. Let’s hear what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENT: Let the cabinet speak just for a second.

(LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: If you’re unhappy with Elon, if you are, we’ll throw them out of here.

(LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: Is anybody unhappy?

(APPLAUSE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PRESTON: (LAUGHING) Look at them all just clapping and smiling and thinking to themselves, Sara, “We better get on board!”

You know, it’s very interesting. Donald Trump not only issues directions through social media, he also issues his threats to his own people in public. And that’s clearly what we saw yesterday.

SIDNER: It clearly is. And it did feel a tiny bit awkward, or a lot awkward, when he made some of those statements and sort of they had to respond to it. Meantime, we’re seeing these town halls where people are really unhappy with some of what Elon Musk has done.

All right, Mark Preston, it is always a pleasure to have you on. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

Watch above via CNN News Central.