Trump Cuts Cabinet Meeting Short, Dodges Questions
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller and Sam Stein give their takes on Trump’s latest Cabinet meeting where he dodged questions, ignored controversial Cabinet members, and declared that housing prices should go up as he tried to tout affordability.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tim O'er from the Bullwark here with managing editor Sam Stein. You decided to dress like me for some reason. I got on here and he changed and he wanted to copy. I don't know what's happening. But we're doing our best. It's been a long week. What day is it? Who knows? There's a cabinet meeting today. One of these made for TV cabinet meetings that Donald Trump invented. And this one, a couple of notes |
| 0:24.0 | before we get into the clips. cabinet meeting today. One of these made for TV cabinet meetings that Donald Trump invented. |
| 0:22.7 | And this one, a couple notes before we get into the clips. It was only an hour and 20 minutes. |
| 0:27.9 | They'd been about two to three hours before. So I think that's showing he doesn't have the |
| 0:32.6 | stamina. Stamina. He's losing the stamina. Then we had had this was the first time ever where you did not |
| 0:41.2 | take any questions um and uh among the people who did not speak all the people who have |
| 0:48.6 | controversy around them christy nome pam bondi tulsie Gabbard, and Stephen Miller. |
| 0:55.2 | We're going to go take you through a couple of the quotes, but Sam, any thoughts? |
| 1:01.7 | Any big picture thoughts? |
| 1:02.9 | You know, the same points that you made, it was we at the office had set the over under |
| 1:09.1 | for two hours on how long he would go. |
| 1:13.4 | I took the under, just saying. |
| 1:15.4 | Okay. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm on a streak here because I had a suspicion that he wanted to keep it tight, |
| 1:22.7 | that he's a little bit anxious about how things are going. |
| 1:25.6 | I did not anticipate that he wouldn't call on Kristian. I did not anticipate that he wouldn't call on |
| 1:27.7 | Kristine him. I did not anticipate that he wouldn't take questions. Definitely issues of stamina, |
| 1:33.5 | for sure, obviously. And then on top of that, I think he's running a little bit scared. |
| 1:38.8 | But there was enough ofsequiousness from the cabinet members to make it comical too. |
| 1:43.5 | Yeah, the running scared, I think, is an important part of this. |
| 1:46.9 | And I just want to mention, like, this is all, it's still abnormal, right? |
| 1:52.8 | And you still have, as you mentioned, the, oh, dear leader, your pee smells like flowers, |
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