In an excerpt from his upcoming book, “The Best People: Trump’s Cabinet and the Siege on Washington,” author Alexander Nazaryan describes an interview with the president in the Oval Office where Donald Trump humiliated White House adviser Kellyanne Conway as she sat there and smiled and said nothing.
According to Nazaryan, he met with the president to get his take on how members of his cabinet — past and present — have performed, with the president forced to read from a tip sheet sitting on his desk that contained boilerplate compliments about his many appointees.
Trump stated that HUD Secretary Ben Carson, “has done a very good job,” and perfunctorily called Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue all “great.” But the author noted the president didn’t have anything to say about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
View the complete June 6 article by Tom Boggioni of Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.