WTH?
Trump Is Holding a Cabinet Meeting Right Now Complete With a ‘Game of Thrones’ Style Poster and It’s All Insane
President Donald Trump is kicking off the new year by holding a cabinet meeting, and by all accounts it’s insane.
While it’s not being aired live like his disastrous meeting with Democratic Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer last month, reporters have been allowed in the room, and some of them are live-tweeting what’s going on.
Reuters’ White House Correspondent Jeff Mason has been tweeting up a storm, including photos.
Let’s take a look.
Here, Trump tells administration officials that “walls work,” says Mason, who adds this photo which includes what a “Game of Thrones” styled meme with the words, “Sanctions Are Coming.”
Note the poster on the table in the Cabinet Room. pic.twitter.com/iHc9e5LIg1
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
The poster is a print of his ‘Sanctions Are Coming, November 5’ tweet on November 2, 2018. #GoT pic.twitter.com/dWqXmtR8Lr
— Andrew (@ACJMARTIN) January 2, 2019
Here, Trump claims he’s staved off World War III with North Korea:
.@realDonaldTrump says there could have been a World War III with North Korea; now he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un and will be setting up another meeting in the not-too-distant future pic.twitter.com/TQkZxtKovB
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
Trump repeated that he was lonely this holiday season, after he shut down the federal government but his family took off for Mar-a-Lago without him.
.@realDonaldTrump says it was lonely in the White House over the holidays pic.twitter.com/0jkGDWecyG
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
Per pooler @tackettdc readout of cabinet meeting: “The acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker praised the president for
‘giving up’ the Christmas and New Years holiday ‘while some members of Congress went on vacation.'”— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 2, 2019
Despite promising to take blame for the shutdown, Trump tells his cabinet members the Democrats are to blame:
Trump says we are in a shutdown because Democrats refuse to fund border security pic.twitter.com/mNBDxTqPdp
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
In case there was anyone left who thought Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen wasn’t fully bought-in on Trump’s beliefs, here she’s talking about “fake families” crossing the border:
DHS @SecNielsen Nielsen tells @realDonaldTrump and cabinet that “fake families” are entering the United States in an effort to be able to stay pic.twitter.com/ApfWYRaC9d
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
An ABC News correspondent notes one-third of Trump’s Secretaries are “Acting.”
Pres Trump kicks off new year w/a Cabinet mtg 12p.
7 out of 21 Cabinet positions currently filled by someone in an “acting” capacity:
Chief of Staff (Mulvaney), AG (Whitaker), SecDef (Shanahan), Amb to UN (Cohen), EPA (Wheeler), OMB Director (Voght) & Interior run by DepSec
— Karen Travers (@karentravers) January 2, 2019
Trump can say this all he wants but he’s lying:
Trump says we’re in the process of giving out large contracts for 115 miles of border wall in an important area, does not give specifics
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
And these:
Trump at Cabinet meeting per @tackettdc: “The wheel, the wall, some things never get old”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 2, 2019
Trump again says Obama has a “wall around his compound” in Cabinet meeting. He does not. https://t.co/WTvkQdEbYp
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 2, 2019
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