Inside Trump’s 2025 Cabinet Meeting: Doodling, Drowsiness, and a Major Misspelling
The scene in the White House Cabinet Room this Tuesday could have been a satire of government itself. As the meeting stretched past its second hour, the usual script of a polished executive branch briefing seemed to have been tossed out the window. Instead, what unfolded was a mix of boredom, blunt pronouncements, and a surprisingly artistic budget director.
President Trump opened by framing the gathering as the last of its kind until 2026, but the subsequent marathon felt less like a grand finale and more like a slog towards a much-needed holiday break. Despite an instruction to “go quickly,” most Cabinet members launched into lengthy presentations, their boss visibly battling to keep his eyes open in his chair. This followed his pointed criticism of recent reports questioning his stamina, even insisting to the room that “Trump is sharp.”
The first notable stumble was literal, etched in plastic. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking early, had his nameplate proudly labeling him the “Ssecretary of War”—a double-‘S’ typo for a proposed department name that doesn’t legally exist without Congress. The internet, predictably, pounced.
As speaker after speaker took their turn, other forms of disengagement surfaced. Budget Director Russell Vought, perhaps longing for simpler vistas, was spotted quietly doodling a detailed landscape on official White House stationery. His sketch featured pine trees, mountains, and the sort of fluffy, friendly clouds made famous by painter Bob Ross. A lone arrow drawn beneath it pointed to an unknown destination—a fitting metaphor for an meeting that seemed to be searching for its own point.
The substance of the presentations, at times, directly contradicted the tone set at the start. While the President dismissed Democratic concerns about rising costs as a “con job,” his own Cabinet members sounded the alarm. The Treasury Secretary called affordability a “crisis,” and the Housing and Agriculture secretaries detailed pressures on families and farmers, seemingly undeterred by the boss’s opening stance.
After over two hours, the meeting shifted to a question-and-answer session that jolted the room awake. Secretary Hegseth, defending a controversial follow-up strike on a boat near Venezuela in September, cited the “fog of war,” stated he “didn’t stick around” for the full operation, and noted the vessel was already on fire.
Then came the day’s most jarring policy declaration. In response to a question, President Trump stated plainly that he does not want Somali immigrants in the United States, suggesting they should remain in their war-torn homeland to “fix” it and accusing them of taking from U.S. aid without contribution. The statement drew applause from the seated Cabinet members before journalists were hurried from the room.
The President ended the affair with a slap on the table, a push back of his chair, and a hearty thump on Secretary Hegseth’s shoulder. It was a physical, abrupt punctuation mark on a meeting that encapsulated this administration’s character: meandering and unfocused at times, but capable of sharp, sudden controversies that define the news cycle.
The two-hour gathering may not have broken the administration’s own duration record, but it delivered a peculiar snapshot of power—where a doodled cloud and a misspelled title shared the stage with consequential and contentious claims.
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