Gene Lyons - Was Trump Cabinet's Loyalty Ritual Funny -- Or Scary? [View all]
Gene Lyons
Was Trump Cabinet’s Loyalty Ritual Funny — Or Scary?
June 13, 2017
If you’ve been wondering what “loyalty” means to President Trump, his most recent cabinet meeting provides an illustration. Hint: it doesn’t necessarily include loyalty to the United States of America.
Rather, to the assorted Wall Street billionaires, politicians and captains of industry that the president has surrounded himself with, loyalty equates with obsequious, sycophantic praise for Trump himself.
The televised spectacle has to be seen to be believed. And the question is, was it more laughable or more scary? I confess being of two minds.
On the comic side, I couldn’t help but think of the “mighty Emperor of Lilliput, Delight and Terror of the Universe” in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. To determine which of his courtiers gained preference, the Emperor—every bit of six inches tall—conducted public exhibitions of “leaping and creeping,” rather like dog agility trials. The winners particularly excelled at groveling.
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