MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Busts Out Laughing At Trump Cabinet Sucking Up In Brutal Montage
MSNBC host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki busted out laughing at the sycophantic praise being doled out in a brutal montage from President Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting.
Trump held an epically long cabinet meeting Tuesday that featured a raft of memorable moments, including copious sucking up and Trump suggesting some Americans would like to have a “dictator” lead the country — the second time he suggested this in as many days.
On Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, the host connected those themes by playing a comically long supercut of over-the-top praise that she couldn’t resist laughing at, then observing that his cabinet is treating him “like a dictator”:
PSAKI: Trump has surrounded himself with people who already treat him like a dictator. And I was going to try to describe for you just how sycophantic this cabinet meeting today was, how much it would make North Korean leader Kim Jong Un or Russian President Putin blush. But my attempt to summarize this meeting, just no matter how hard I tried, just could simply not do it justice. And this is one of those things you really have to see for yourself.
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TULSI GABBARD, DNI: As we approach Labor Day weekend here. This is just such a great opportunity really to recognize your leadership as a true champion for working people.
KELLY LOEFFLER, ADMINISTRATOR OF SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: Everyone knows there’s no stronger advocate for hardworking American families than you, sir.
SEAN DUFFY, TRANSPORTATION: Mr. President, it’s pretty great to celebrate Labor Day with a builder who loves labor.
LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER, LABOR SECRETARY: Mr. President, I invite you to see your beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor, because you are really the transformational president of the American worker.
KRISTI NOEM, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: The average family and individual that lives in this country is safer than they’ve been in years because of what you’ve done.
SCOTT BESSENT, TREASURY SECRETARY: Our country has never been so secure. Thanks to you.
DOUG BURGUM, INTERIOR SECRETARY: You have breathed life back into the profession of law enforcement.
CHRIS WRIGHT, ENERGY SECRETARY: Your tireless campaign and your relentless messaging made people realize the American dream isn’t dead. It’s just been smothered. And we’re unsmothering it and letting it loose.
BESSENT: You have brought us back from the edge. You had the overwhelming mandate from the American people. You’re restoring confidence in government.
BURGUM: All the industries that have been killed in this country are coming back to life because of you.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., HHS SECRETARY: You are going to save the whales on the East Coast.
BROOKE ROLLINS, AGRICULTURE SECRETARY: Thank you for saving college football, by the way. We’re all very grateful.
HOWARD LUTNICK, COMMERCE SECRETARY: This is the greatest cabinet working for the greatest president.
LEE ZELDIN, EPA ADMINISTRATOR: What we are accomplishing now again, wouldn’t be possible if not for your leadership.
WRIGHT: God bless your assembly of this team around this table. We’re bringing the American Dream back.
ROLLINS: I do believe we’re in a revolution. 1776 was the first one. 1863 or so with Abraham Lincoln was the second. This is the third, with Donald Trump leading the way.
STEVE WITKOFF, U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY: There’s only one thing I wish for that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since the Nobel Peace — this Nobel Award was ever talked about to receive that reward.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PSAKI: I mean, what did I tell you? I really couldn’t summarize that.
The man, according to his cabinet, is starting revolutions, saving whales, apparently, and apparently saving college football. I can’t — I don’t even — I can’t explain that one at all. How could the man not be given a Nobel Peace Prize? How could he not?
I mean, either someone scripted all of that fawning praise for Trump, and maybe they did. I mean, the revolution lady, that somebody scripted that for her. God bless. Or maybe they came up with it on the spot. Not sure which is worse. Doesn’t matter really, which is worse.
But one after another, Trump’s cabinet secretaries bloviated about how America has never been better. All thanks to him. Almost no real business of any kind was actually discussed really at all. It was basically just a big old group hug for Trump’s ego.
So, whether Trump is trying to become a dictator or not, he is certainly surrounding himself with people who treat him like one.
Watch above via MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.
