'Interesting': Former Trump staffer flags 'highly unusual' dynamic at cabinet meeting
Raw StoryOne of Donald Trump's former staffers was struck by something "highly unusual" that developed during the president's first cabinet meeting in his second term. The president gathered his Senate-confirmed, top-ranking agency heads around a table, where they remained largely silent as Trump publicly challenged them to speak out against Elon Musk, who has been derisively described as his "co-president," and he turned the meeting over to the tech mogul standing at the opposite end of the table before taking questions from reporters. Vance didn't get to speak until an hour into the meeting," said Mike Dubke, who served as Trump's White House communications director in early 2017. But, look, part of what I was looking at that was interesting is just the power dynamic, because Elon does show up in a T-shirt and jeans and his cap, which, you know, makes me crazy because, you know, at least take off your hat in the West Wing, have some respect in the White House, but part of what he was conveying is like, 'I don't have to play by the rules like the rest of y'all, and I get to be, you know, the tech bro and do my thing,' and so that was sort of interesting."
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