Can we talk about the flattery fest of a cabinet meeting?

Did they have a choice? They would become Yates, Comey or Bharara or any number of others... (sarcastic, in case anyone thinks differently)

Just bizarre and gross! And bless Sec Mattis.

I started to watch video of it, but I had to close out of it. I just couldn't. 

These people are disgusting. And to think Ivanka Trump was on Fox saying cheetorific was vindicated after Comey's testimony. I'm done. I need to take a break from the news again.

OMG! That's it! I have been trying to put my finger on it all evening! It IS like they're reading from a script. 

I also agree that Chuck Schumer's response is totally hysterical!

Just wait, trumpazoid will start calling Schumer a loser.

tune in to Colbert/Meyers/Kimmel etc to at least get a twisted giggle.

Trump is an unhinged narcissist. The national embarrassment continues.

This sounds like a dictatorship.

He has asked people for loyalty, so his claims in the Rose Garden in response to Comey's testimony were a big fat fucking lie!

www.theblaze.com/news/2016/03/08/cruz-trump-oath-made-supporters-pledge-their-loyalty-like-subjects-to-a-king/


And from philly.com:
"• When you consider Trump's history, there is nothing surprising about him asking Comey for a loyalty oath.

You might recall that the president installed minders inside key agencies as soon as he took power in January. These apparatchiks, who have already proven their devotion to the president, are charged — above all — with monitoring the loyalty of cabinet secretaries and reporting back to the White House. "This shadow government of political appointees ... is embedded at every Cabinet agency, with offices in or just outside the secretary's suite," the Post's Lisa Rein and Juliet Eilperin reported in March. "The White House has installed at least 16 of the advisers at departments including Energy and Health and Human Services and at some smaller agencies such as NASA ... These aides report not to the secretary, but to ... a White House deputy chief of staff."

•Last year,Trump repeatedly cited his refusal to fire then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, after he forcibly grabbed a female reporter and then denied it (even though there was video), as a testament to his own character. "Folks, look, I'm a loyal person," Trump said at one town hall. "It would be so easy for me to terminate this man, ruin his life, ruin his family." (He even cited Lewandowski during a meeting with Jewish leaders to make the point that he'd stay loyal to Israel if elected.) "This campaign, above all other things, is about loyalty," Lewandowski told New York Magazine around this time.

Shortly thereafter, however, Trump fired Lewandowski. Then a few months after that, struggling in the polls, the candidate fired his replacement. It was a reminder that, for Trump, loyalty is always conditional. There are strings attached.

• Trump has described himself as a "loyalty freak,"according to a profile written last summer by Politico's Michael Kruse,but what he really meant by that is that he wants people under him to stay loyal to him."


And...

"Kellyanne Conway did not even try to dispute that Trump demands loyalty.

"The president expects people who are serving in his administration ... to be loyal to the administration," the counselor to the president said on Fox News last Thursday as the Comey imbroglio blew up."

And here is what Nikki Haley said:

.@nikkihaley: "The president is the CEO of the country. He can hire and fire whomever he wants." t.co/oDpvOp1Ojl pic.twitter.com/7vGkUtmDGo


However--she was mistaken:

• "In fact, that is not how it works. Trump is the president, not "the CEO," of the United States. This is a meaningful distinction. The federal government does not belong to Trump. It is not a family business. Or even a publicly-traded corporation with a board of directors. There are checks and balances. There are courts and Congress. There are laws designed to prevent obstruction of justice. As our first president to take office with no prior political or military experience, and lacking any formal training in history or constitutional law, Trump clearly still faces a Herculean learning curve.

• This point is very important: FBI agents do not take an oath to the president. They take an oath to the Constitution. The bureau explains why this matters on its own website: "It is significant that we take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and not an individual leader, ruler, office, or entity. ... A government based on individuals - who are inconsistent, fallible, and often prone to error - too easily leads to tyranny on the one extreme or anarchy on the other. ... The American colonists were all too familiar with the harmful effects of unbalanced government and oaths to individual rulers. For example, the English were required to swear loyalty to the crown, and many of the early colonial documents commanded oaths of allegiance to the king."

Soon his birthday will be a national holiday.

Are you talking about the hostage video? 

Sounds like he is modelling his administration on that of North Korea.