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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trump's clown car Cabinet lives up to the name

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki checks in on "some of the most incompetent people this country has ever seen," some of the higher profile members of Donald Trump's administration, and finds they have not grown to fill their positions and remain a source of humiliation for Trump.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lots to cover tonight. Let me start with this. Donald Trump has been humiliated a lot lately. I mean a lot. And most of the time, that is because of his own behavior. He's really done it to himself. No one made him fall asleep in the Oval Office, for example. But it's also because he's surrounded himself with people like this. I mean, those are two of Donald Trump's top law enforcement officials

0:22.9

right there featured in that picture. That's Christy Noem and those super stylish glasses on her red

0:28.6

carpet and her red carpet sidekick Cash Patel spending their weekend hanging out in a pink

0:34.0

Lego race car while attending a Formula One race in Las Vegas.

0:38.3

Now, you would be hard pressed, very, very hard pressed to find an example of a previous

0:43.3

FFI director or DHS secretary, never mind together, in any comparable photos.

0:49.3

And if this was a one-off incident, you might forgive them for having kind of, you know,

0:53.3

a little bit of fun, not for their rigors of their very important day jobs.

0:57.6

But for Trump's cabinet, living like a C-List celebrity is the job.

1:03.2

And no one seems to do it better than Cash Patel.

1:06.3

Because the FBI director has been using federal resources for a lot of trips that don't sound at all FBI-related.

1:13.6

I mean, he has repeatedly used a government jet for recreational travel, including a golf trip with friends at a private island in Scotland.

1:20.6

For example, it doesn't sound FBI related.

1:22.6

That's not to mention his use of a government plane to attend a wrestling event in Pennsylvania, as well as a

1:28.4

getaway to a Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. I mean, of all hunting resorts,

1:35.3

Cash Patel could have visited the Boondogel ranch. Now, on top of all of that, Patel has also

1:41.0

redirected SWAT team agents from critical duties, presumably like responding

1:44.9

to actual emergencies, to serve as the personal security detail for his 27-year-old girlfriend.

1:51.1

You can see a picture there right there on your screen.

1:54.4

And now his headline-obsessed boss, Donald Trump, is reportedly having second thoughts about

1:59.1

choosing him to lead the country's top law enforcement

2:02.1

agency. MS now reported today that Trump is considering removing Cash Patel's FBI director

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