One by one, Mr Trump's Cabinet members at the first formal gathering of his most senior officials at the White House on Monday heaped praise on the President who reportedly sat beaming and soaking it all. "The president is keeping his word to the American people", Pence said.
"Never has there been a president with few exceptions. who has passed more legislation, done more things", he began, hailing his purported accomplishments, even though Congress has yet to pass any major legislative bills.
One by one on Monday (June 12), Trump's Cabinet members assembled around the table spoke effusively about the U.S. president. Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Price:
"I can't thank you enough for the privileges you've given me."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) mocked the president with a video parody of the meeting Monday afternoon.
Next up was Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has caught Trump's ire of late for his recusal from Russia-related matters: "It's an honor to be able to serve you in that regard and to send the exact right message, and the response is fabulous around the country".
This highly unusual spectacle in the White House Cabinet Room on Monday seemed created to deflect attention from the President's faltering agenda and in keeping with an intense effort by the White House to boost Mr Trump's mood and change the subject from fired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief James Comey's damaging testimony last week.
If you read the headlines, President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting was "embarrassing", "bizarre", "creepy", even "Soviet".
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President Trump's first full cabinet meeting raised eyebrows when the participants spent their time flattering their boss in front of the TV cameras. When his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, also a Christian, referred to getting to serve the president and his agenda as a "blessing" that's how millions of Christians talk every day whether they're sitting around their kitchen tables or around the most influential table in the world.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave his "hats off" to Mr Trump for taking a stand against the Paris climate accord.
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"I think the global community knows we are back", said United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who Trump joked in April could "easily be replaced".
And Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue noted he "just got back from MS and they like [Trump] there".
'And they like you there, ' he said.
"You have great hair", she said.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, noting the comments from other officials who said they had recently been overseas, noted wryly: "While we are bragging about worldwide travel I just got back from MS and they like you there".
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