Overview

• The fully open meeting ran roughly three hours and 17 minutes as President Trump took questions and listened to round-robin accolades from senior officials.
• Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer invited Trump to view a banner of his face on the Labor Department building, while envoy Steve Witkoff urged the Nobel Committee to honor him.
• Trump asserted broad authority over deploying federal troops and addressed criticism by saying some people would prefer a “dictator” who stops crime, before denying he is one.
• HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed claims about contaminated shrimp and joined a conversation invoking debunked theories linking vaccines to autism.
• Viral supercuts of the meeting, including one from MeidasTouch with more than a million views, fueled widespread media condemnation as some strategists debated whether such spectacles resonate with most voters.