NYT's Maggie Haberman floored as Trump Cabinet gets 'endurance test' to 'praise him'

The Trump administration's cabinet meeting on Tuesday amounted to a display of personal affection toward the president, according to one analyst.

Maggie Haberman, a journalist at The New York Times who has written a book about President Donald Trump, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" on Tuesday to discuss the meeting. At the meeting, cabinet secretaries heaped praise on Trump in front of the cameras, which caught Haberman's attention.

"What I heard is an endurance test of who could praise President Trump more," Haberman said.

"Generally, what you heard is a competition to tell Trump that he had saved the country more, and they started trying to one-up each other," Haberman added.

Another striking moment of the meeting was its "remarkable duration," Haberman said.

"I assume that a lot of those people, including the President of the United States, had other things to do that were not doing this, when it was not purely about the agency's work," Haberman said. "The lead point was to praise him."

Trump also repeated a false story about Maryland's Democratic Governor Wes Moore praising Trump during a walking tour of Baltimore.

"He says things that are not true quite often, we all know this," Haberman said. "We've gotten to see many examples over the course of three hours during the cabinet meeting today, but he often says this about people who are in opposition to him in any way, which is that they said something, or asked something, or they praised him, so it's not really a surprise."

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