It's Thursday, August 28th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday.

The show is sending as much love and support as it can muster for the folks in Minneapolis, Minnesota,

forced to reckon with another school shooting.

On today's show, the Food and Drug Administration approves updated COVID-19 vaccines with some caveats.

And the alleged D.C. sandwich thrower dodges federal charges.

But let's start with President Donald Trump and what Trumpism, whatever it is, is doing to us.

Trump hosted a three-hour-long cabinet meeting this week,

and the entire thing can basically be summed up by the following 36-second montage, courtesy of CNN.

It's an honor to do this job under the president's leadership.

You are the single finest candidate since the noble piece, this Nobel award was ever talked about.

Thank you for your leadership, your boldness, for your clarity, for common sense.

This is just such a great opportunity really to recognize your leadership.

It's pretty great to celebrate Labor Day with Builder who loves labor.

You have saved this country by making it the best place in the world to do business

again. You are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the

American flag and President Roosevelt. I feel the overwhelming desire to wash my hands, but those are

our cabinet secretaries at work. It would be obvious if it were another country, wouldn't it?

The excessive fawning over the dear leader would raise more suspicions if it were taking

place in Greece or Colombia or anywhere else.

But it's not another country.

It's the United States.

And we are in trouble with a president musing on an almost weekly basis about how great it would be if he were a dictator, despite being very unpopular.

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