MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Slams Trump Rambling About Decor ‘For 15 Minutes’ Amid Flood Disaster

MSNBC host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki slammed President Donald Trump over the Cabinet meeting he held amid the aftermath of deadly floods in Texas, and zeroed in on what she found to be an especially surreal chunk of the photo op.

Trump convened a lengthy and scattershot cabinet meeting on Tuesday amid the Texas flood disaster, during which he threatened the media, dropped a major whopper about CNN, attacked Chuck Schumer, bitterly complained about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “bullshit,” and dove deep about his White House redecorations.

On Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, Psaki singled out that lengthy riff about decorations — which lasted longer than his opening remarks about the flooding — as an example of an old adage about deck chairs on a doomed ship:

JEN PSAKI: Have you ever heard the expression “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?”.

I’m sure you have. I mean, it’s supposed to be an unbelievable exaggeration of someone engaging in a trivial task during a crisis. Trump one-upped it today.

We all watched in horror as we saw the death toll climb in the flooding in Texas to 109 people. There are at least 161 people still missing and an active search and rescue mission. The situation in Texas is very much an ongoing crisis.

It’s not just there. That is where it’s most serious, of course, but the people of North Carolina and South Carolina are also recovering from storms. And hurricane season is far from over, and the people who are in communities that are continuously hit every year very much know that.

And that was all the backdrop of Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting today, where he addressed the ongoing federal response near the beginning of the meeting and announced he will be visiting Texas and the area impacted on Friday.

But he also had another pressing matter he felt the need to address in that meeting. He spent almost 15 minutes talking about how he redecorated the Cabinet Room of the White House.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I actually spend time in the vaults. The vaults are where we have a lot of great pictures and artwork, and I picked it all myself. That’s Andrew Jackson. That’s… A gentleman named, and we call him President Polk.

He was sort of a real estate guy. And then you have Dwight Eisenhower, who was a very underrated president. And then over there is Honest Abe Lincoln. And then, over here, you have John Adams.

We got the drapes, so we got the whole thing. We got new drapes. Here, we put on, you know, these lamps have been very important, actually. We also painted the room in this color, beige. The only question is, will I gold leaf the corners?

You could maybe tell me, my cabinet could take a vote. Does any, Linda, do you have an opinion?

Who would go leaf it, could I raise you? How about, would you gold leaf it?

JEN PSAKI: Who would gold leaf it? That’s a typical question at a cabinet meeting.

Look, I love that room, too. Anybody who’s been in it love the room or probably seen it on TV probably loves the room.

But painting the ceiling’s gold isn’t exactly a pressing issue for Trump’s cabinet right now. Of course it’s not.

But it does tell you a little bit about where Trump’s head is at.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.