‘Off The Rails’: Trump’s Ramble In The Middle Of Cabinet Meeting Is 24-Karat Nonsense
President Donald Trump delivered a rambling and disjointed performance at a Cabinet meeting that lasted more than 90 minutes, concluding with a lengthy aside about interior decorating.
Trump, during the meeting, said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ― who is Jewish ― has “abandoned the Jews” and “become a Palestinian,” then compared Schumer to Jon Lovitz’s lying “Saturday Night Live” character Tommy Flanagan, complete with an impression.
He described the B-2 bombers that flew to Iran for last month’s attack, saying they “went skedaddle” and then tried to define the word “skedaddle.”
“Do you know the word skedaddle?” he asked. “It means skedaddle.”
He took great offense at a question about Jeffrey Epstein, a day after his Justice Department concluded that the late sex offender didn’t have a long-rumored “client list.”
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” he asked in disbelief. “This guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and are people still talking about this guy, this creep?”
He called it a “desecration” to speak about Epstein during a time of “some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas.”
Toward the end, he started to talk decor.
“I’m a frame person,” he declared as he spoke about portraits. “Sometimes I like frames more than I like the pictures.”
He spoke of flags, clocks, lamps, medallions, and more.
Then the conversation took a golden turn as Trump spoke at length about the room’s moldings and whether they would look better with gold leaf or gold-colored paint.
“If you paint it, it won’t look good because they’ve never found a paint that looks like gold,” he said. “You see that in the Oval Office. They’ve tried for years and years. Somebody could become very wealthy, but they’ve never found a paint that looks like gold. So, painting it is easy, but it won’t look right. And the question is whether or not we should gold leaf it.”
He asked some of his Cabinet secretaries for their opinions on gold paint versus gold leaf.
And on social media, his critics also delivered theirs:
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