Dec. 3, 2025

Trump Nods Off As His Cabinet Turns Into ‘Adult Daycare’

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President Trump’s marathon Cabinet session devolves into doodles, typos, third-person motivational speeches, and a boom-mic Q&A nobody asked for. Russell Vought is drawing Bob Ross landscapes, Pete Hegseth arrives as the “ssecretary of war,” and Trump tries to prove he’s “sharp” by saying “Trump is sharp.” The meeting ends with table-slapping, shoulder-thumping, and enough chaos to qualify as an office Christmas party gone horribly wrong.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, d C. Where you should

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stay awake in cabinet meetings. This is balance, that's right.

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A good way to convince your cabinet not to use

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the twenty fifth Amendment is to not pass out in

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front of them. I'm Patrick Gutfield, and let me tell

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you this cabinet meeting was less serious government business and

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more adult daycare with power. President Trump's two hour marathon

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session reads like a corporate meeting designed by a comedy writer.

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Budget director Russell Vaught is over here drawing Bob Ross

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landscapes while the President struggles to stay awake. I've seen

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more engagement at high school assemblies. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

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shows up with a nameplates that says Secretary of War,

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because nothing says military precision like a typo. The online

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roasting practically wrote itself. Trump's trying to convince everyone he's

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sharp by randomly slipping into third person. Trump is sharp,

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he declares, like a motivational speaker who's one espresso shot

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away from a breakdown. The affordability messaging was more scattered

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than a toddler's toys. Trump calls it a con job.

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While his own cabinet members are like, actually, we're totally

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working on this, and let's talk about that. Q and

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A session. Trump playfully asks a boom mic operator how

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strong they are after holding the mic for two hours,

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because nothing says Leader of the Free World likes making

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small talk with av equipment. The grand finale, Trump slaps

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the table, stands up, and thumps Hegsith on the shoulder.

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It's less presidential briefing and more awkward office Christmas party.

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President Trump just turned immigration policy into a late night

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comedy roast, and trust me, it's about as nuanced as

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a sledgehammer. Trump's latest rant against Somali immigrants sounds like

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a stand up routine written by someone who failed sensitivity

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training and comedy school. He's calling an entire community garbage

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with the diplomatic grace of a toddler having a meltdown

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in a grocery store. Somalia stinks. Wow, such profound geopolitical analysis.

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I've heard more sophisticated international commentary from taxi drivers. The

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Administration's targeting Minnesota Somali community like it's playing a game

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of bureaucratic whack a mole. One hundred ice agents descending

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on Minneapolis. That's less immigration enforcement, more like a federal

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flash mob. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Fras response, we love you

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and we stand with you. Translation. Nice, try, federal government.

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This city's got more solidarity than your average corporate team

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building retreat. Let's break this down. Most of Minnesota's eighty

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thousand Somali residents are US citizens or legal residents. Trump's

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rhetoric is basically saying, welcome to America. Now prove you

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belong here. Trump just declared war on the autopen. Yes,

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that mechanical signing device that's been used by every president

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since sliced bread was invented. Apparently Trump believes presidential pardons

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signed by an auto pen are about as legitimate as

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a fake ID at a college bar. His latest truth

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social rant claims all of Biden's clemency actions are now

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null and void because and I quote they were signed

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by a machine. Let me translate this for you. Trump

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wants to retroactively unpart in thousands of people because nothing

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says presidential power like creating legal chaos with a social

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media post. The Constitution gives presidents near absolute pardon power,

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but Trump's out here playing legal Jenga, trying to pull

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out pardons like their Jenga blocks in a drunk game night.

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This comes right after Trump pardoned a crypto billionaire. He

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admitted he had no idea who he is. The irony

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is thicker than a holiday fruitcake. His own pardons totally fine.

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Biden's machine signed documents completely invalid. Legal experts are basically

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doing the equivalent of a collective eye roll. No president

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has ever tried to retroactively cancel a predecessor's pardons. It's

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like trying to unbake a cake after it's already been served.

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Portions of today's show were made with the help of

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