'Politburo of MAGA movement': CNN writer sees ominous message at Army vs. Navy game

Donald Trump’s lauding it over the Army vs. Navy football game over the weekend, flanked by the cohorts he's picked for Cabinet positions or that he reviles as staunch allies in Congress, sent shivers down a CNN columnist’s spine Monday. “When Trump, Vance and the congressional leaders — as well as the ubiquitous Elon Musk — peered over the loudly welcoming crowd and waved, the country’s new establishment looked almost like a politburo of the MAGA movement.” Trump took in Saturday’s game alongside his troubled pick to head the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, his choice for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson and incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune — as well as billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk. And Thune may have one of the hardest jobs in Washington in piloting controversial nominees through the Senate and preserving the chamber’s, albeit rather eroded, prerogative to check likely power grabs by a new president who knows no limits.” He concluded, “It will be up to Republicans to decide who gets to serve and, more broadly, much of what gets done in Washington – for at least the next two years heading into the midterms.