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President Donald Trump could be considering a replacement for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an analyst said Friday.

Salon's White House columnist Brian Karem reported that while White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been on leave, the Trump administration has been auditioning different "guest host" Cabinet members in the press room, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Oz is now being rumored to be a potential replacement for Kennedy....

A Reuters photographer Evan Vucci zeroed in on a Trump Cabinet secretary's notes scribbled with a message to himself.

"Resilience," read the top of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's notes during an eventful meeting on Wednesday.

Bessent was sitting in a meeting that featured Trump threatening to bomb U.S. allies and Department of Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin saying Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) deserved to be pepper-sprayed. ...

A stunning New York Times report on Monday exposed just how often — and what — President Donald Trump's cabinet has said to praise him throughout his presidency. The revelations were eye-opening for many people online.

"The cabinet has historically advised the president on a variety of matters, but in President Trump’s second term, it appears to have taken on a new mandate: flattery," The Times reported.

The Times reviewed hours of marathon cabinet meetings and highlighted how each cabinet member has spoken to Trump, analyzing comments and comparing some of those remarks to the president's first administration....

Four of President Donald Trump's cabinet members have left his administration over the last several months — and people noticed a similar pattern on Friday.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was the latest to exit, citing her husband's battle with a rare bone cancer. The move comes after months of rumors that Trump wanted her gone.

The internet spotted something similar to previous Trump administration officials ousted from their roles, including former Attorney General Pam Bondi, former Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem....

President Donald Trump's move to push out a longtime Republican ally could backfire — because he now needs his help, according to reports on Friday.

Burgess Everett, Semafor congressional bureau chief, pointed out that as Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation as director of national intelligence, it has left three openings for the Trump administration to fill all while he navigates a more tense relationship with GOP lawmakers in the economic fallout over the Iran war, the White House ballroom funding and his controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

"Upshot from Gabbard resigning: Trump now has three Cabinet vacancies (Labor, AG) while he's basically at war with Senate Republicans," Everett wrote in a post on X....

President Donald Trump's Cabinet members and nominees have had to pass a loyalty test and often debase themselves publicly to keep their jobs — it's what an analyst has dubbed "the Costanza presidency."

In a Substack post published Friday, Tom Schaller, professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, detailed just how far Trump's allies have been willing to take their lies, even refusing to deny Trump lost the 2020 election. This "favorite lie" is something Trump has come to expect from his faithful followers and people within his inner circle, he wrote.

"Like their boss, Donald Trump’s lackeys lie about pretty much everything: the state of the economy, the cost and need for the White House ballroom project, the security of shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz," Schaller wrote. "Their bald-faced deceptions are designed to convince you that up is down, day is night."...