Cabinet Celebrates Musk, 'Trump Gaza' Video & Alexa+ Debuts - Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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The news to know for Thursday, February 27, 2025!
We'll tell you why the first gathering of President Trump's new cabinet ended up centered around a non-cabinet member: Elon Musk, and how the government is preparing for another, larger round of mass layoffs.
Also, we're talking about a controversial video the president posted online—showing a reimagined version of Gaza, complete with nightclubs, golden Trump statues, and American dollar bills.
Plus, what a new mission is hoping to accomplish on the moon, what a recent survey learned about America's LGBTQ population, and what Amazon's Alexa will be able to do with the power of AI.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, February 27. |
| 0:02.4 | We'll tell you why the first gathering of President Trump's new cabinet |
| 0:05.2 | ended up centered around a non-cabinet member, Elon Musk, |
| 0:08.7 | and how the government is preparing for another larger round of mass layoffs. |
| 0:12.7 | Also, we're talking about a controversial video, the president posted online, |
| 0:16.4 | showing a reimagined version of Gaza, complete with nightclubs, |
| 0:19.9 | golden Trump statues, and American dollar |
| 0:22.2 | bills. Plus, what a new mission is hoping to accomplish on the moon. What a recent survey learned |
| 0:26.8 | about America's LGBTQ population and what Amazon's Alexa will be able to do with the power of AI. |
| 0:33.3 | Those stories and even more news next. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy. |
| 0:42.0 | All the day's news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:44.6 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:47.2 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:47.9 | You're ready? |
| 0:49.4 | Let's do this. |
| 0:58.4 | At his first cabinet meeting of the new term, President Trump surrounded himself with all the people at the seat of power in his administration. |
| 1:04.7 | But much of the meeting was focused on Trump's top budget cutter, Elon Musk, even though he's not actually a cabinet member. |
| 1:10.6 | There has been talk of a power struggle between Musk and the new cabinet members since he's gone over their heads a few times. So about |
| 1:11.3 | 12 minutes into the meeting, Trump addressed it with a joke, saying, quote, is anybody unhappy with |
| 1:15.9 | Elon? If you are, we'll throw him out of here. The cabinet started clapping. Then Elon Musk |
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