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WASHINGTON, June 13 (APP/AFP): A first full meeting
of Donald Trump’s cabinet featured effusive praise of the embattled president Monday, a bid to project success that prompted ridicule and criticism from some quarters.
Trump kicked off the meeting by claiming that his White House had
achieved “amazing results” and had “been about as active as you can possibly be and at a just about record pace.”
That prompted a chorus of flattery, as cabinet members took turns to
offer their rose-tinted views on an administration that by any measure has lurched from crisis to crisis and struggled to enact its agenda.
“On behalf of the entire senior staff around you Mr President, we
thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda and the American people,” said chief of staff Reince Priebus.
Priebus is among those whose job is perennially rumored to be on the
block, as Trump mulls changes to try and get the administration back on track.
CIA director Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence described the
honor of working in the Trump administration.
“It is the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president.
The president is keeping his word to the American people,” Pence said.