President Donald Trump The cabinet, the US government, held its first meeting on Wednesday.
Exceptionally, the meeting was open to the media. Media attention focused on the performances of Trump and others present.
Most of the attention stole a billionaire Elon Musk. He spoke the second most after the president.
In this story Maria Lindén He deals with the three key moments of the meeting and tells what they reveal about Trump’s administration right now.
Video 1: Trump jokes out with throwing
In the early stages of the meeting, Trump gave a speech to Elon Musk, who leads the Doge of the Administration. Before that, he joked that it is time for ministers to tell if they were dissatisfied with Musk.
Immediately afterwards, Trump fired that if there was dissatisfaction, they will be thrown out. It was unclear whether Trump would have thrown out Musk with his partners or criticism ministers.
In any case, there was no real opportunity to criticize, says researcher Maria Lindén. It became clear to the ministers that Trump had the right to distinguish anyone at any time.
“He framed through that joke so that it was practically impossible to start making any criticism, and then no one said,” Lindén.
According to Lindén, it is clear that some ministers are dissatisfied with Musk’s enhancement of the administration.
After the comment, the ministers laughed and obediently began to clap Trump.
Lindén had the impression of the televised meeting that there were no real decision -makers at the ministerial table.
– They felt more like a puppet theater doll in Trump and Musk’s play.
According to Lindén, Trump has chosen his minister based on ideology and obedience. Many ministers do not know their administration and have no experience in managing large organizations.
Video 2: Musk explains his emails
At the meeting, Musk, among other things, defended an email that Doge had sent to all federal workers from the beginning of the week.
In it, Doge demanded that all employees tell about their work during the previous week. In X, Musk stated that non-response is interpreted as resignation.
For example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and the Federal Police FBI prohibited responding to the survey because jobs are confidential information.
Maria Lindén had the impression that Musk himself realized that the email survey was a mistake, even though he did not admit it at the meeting.
“It crossed boundaries that should not have been crossed, so he is trying to downplay this,” Lindén says.
Musk explained that the purpose of the email was to check whether the recipient had any pulse or brain function at all.
“It is related to a false claim that he repeats that the government payroll already has dead people and possibly invented names,” says Lindén.
According to the conspiracy theory, a huge amount of money is spent on the state through false identities.
According to Lindén, the speeches also tell about Musk’s attitude towards state workers.
“Musk’s activities are and has an open contempt for these people all the time,” says Lindén.
Video 3: Ministers thank God for Trump
The Trump Cabinet meeting began with a short prayer. Housing and Urban Development Minister Scott Turner Thanks God for the Trump and the names of the ministers.
According to Maria Lindén, the televised prayer was aimed at Trump’s Conservative Christian supporters.
Praying and talking about God is an important part of the Trump phenomenon. The connection was confirmed by Trump’s assassination company in the summer.
“For many Trump supporters, it is an indication that it is God’s will to choose Trump when he survived like a miracle trade,” Lindén says.
Lindén can’t say directly how exceptional the government’s prayer moment was.
The church and the state are separated in the United States. On the other hand, the United States is a religious country where a lot of prayers are prayed for political events.
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