Pierce: Gather Round, It's Leader-Praising Time!

[mcar]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55590/trump-cabinet-meeting-north-korea/

Anybody familiar with the United States of America—or even with a hypothetical democratic republic—couldn't help but be confused by the televised dumbshow we had Monday morning when the president* called his Cabinet all together for the first time. However, I would guarantee that the hosts of Good Morning, Pyongyang would recognize it immediately. The Leader spoke about how great he was and, in reply, the heads of the executive departments agreed with him wholeheartedly and thanked him for allowing them to share in his greatness...

Gaze in awe.

Not normal.

But no puppet.

[skylucy]

1. That was truly one of the most disturbing spectacles I have seen. Trump obviously taking lessons

from the leader of North Korea.

[mcar]

2. Its nauseating

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. I agree completely. Of all the stuff he's done, this scared me the most.

That a spectacle like this could happen in our country- Nixon didn't do this, Reagan didn't, Dubya didn't- SMH. This is what we've elected. As someone below posted, if this isn't a Mein Fuhrer moment I don't know what is.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

24. +1 nt

[COLGATE4]

3. I'm almost 75 and I've NEVER seen anything like

that spectacle in my life. It's beyond disgusting, probably the most pathetic demonstration of boot-licking I've ever seen or even heard of. It's truly worthy of Pyongyang.

[gilbert sullivan]

4. Strange how not one camera got a shot of any of those guys

blowing him.

[L. Coyote]

5. The reek of desperation in all this is overwhelming. #SycoPhantasia

You know how bad it really is for Trump right now by the extremes to which the propaganda show is going.

Link to tweet

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[oasis]

6. Lol!

[Sugar Smack]

8. LOL!!!

[malaise]

28. That was a great response

Hilarious

[IADEMO2004]

30. Hope this gets equal time on all networks.

[mcar]

7. Wolf's crew on CNN mocked it unmercifully

Praising Wolf fulsomely.

[ewagner]

9. I couldn't sit through the whole thing...

[NastyRiffraff]

10. I couldn't either

I haven't seen anything that sickening coming from the White House since...I'm trying to think. Maybe Cheney saying something? Anything?

[jaxind]

11. Sickening!

That was absolutely sickening! I think tRUMP thought that by doing this, all Americans would see how everyone thinks tRUMP is doing a great job and see that he's a great president, but what they don't get is, that it's supposed to be other people, NOT your OWN people, that should be praising him to make it believeable! Let's say, all the Democrats in Congress or the whole audience of The Daily Show, sat around and praised tRUMP like that, then that would be a message worth sending! It doesn't count when it's your own people doing the praising, you buffoon!!!

[ihaveaquestion]

12. OMFG !!!!

If this isn't a "Mein Fuhrer" moment, I don't know what it is!

[mcar]

13. Dear Leader!

[3catwoman3]

14. Sycophantism in the extreme.

Solicited praise is meaningless.

What a black hole of neediness Donny 2 Scoops is.

[smirkymonkey]

15. The Emperor's New Clothes.

I am just waiting for some little boy to scream out "But he's an incompetent, lying, cheating, vulgar, classless, monumentally stupid fat old shit-stain!"

[Kablooie]

16. This is terrifying. Drowning in Kool Aid. Trump's administration has truly has become a cult.

They must be destroyed quickly.

If we have to wait till the end of 2018, democratic, honest elections may be a thing of the past.

[MarcA]

17. Ass Kissing on Steroids.

[sarge43]

18. Shameful, just shameful n/t

[xxqqqzme]

20. I'd love to know

who wrote the scripts for each sickretary.

[D_Master81]

21. 2 things

1) this is clearly a spectacle to show unity in the white house

2) its also a way that they are stroking his ego to help him continue. i wouldnt doubt that they start doing this before every cabinet meeting if they havent started to already.

[Paladin]

22. This is still America----NOT North Korea.

What a vomit-inducing "Dear Leader" spectacle that was. I want trump out of office, just as soon as possible.

[IADEMO2004]

26. North Korea is exactly what I thought when I saw the video today.

[5X]

23. its called a circle jerk. n/t

[shadowmayor]

25. OK my minions

Please apply your ChapStick now while I drop my drawers. Now one by one, line up and kiss my BIG FAT ASS! Grovel you bastards, grovel. Now tell me again, isn't that the best ass you've ever kissed? Tremendous right? Are you tired of winning?

This whole episode tells me more about the people around the table than it does about Drumpf.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Do you think they were told to do that by Dolt 45 himself or Bannon or other staff,

or was it just spontaneous sucking-up?

[mcar]

29. Seems like it was planned and scripted

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. That was my impression, too.

Almost like they were speaking from memorized scripts - although Chris Cilizza observed that the fulsomeness of the praise was not consistent; he ranked the cabinet secretaries by their level of ass-kissing. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-cabinet-ranked/index.html But it was interesting that Pence, the first to speak, set the bar for sucking up, and then the other secretaries (maybe just not wanting to be out-sucked by Pence) followed his obsequious lead. But it was almost like it eventually dawned on some of them that the fellatio-fest was being recorded, and the last few to speak were much less fawning than the first.