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Recap / Our Cartoon President S2E04 "The Best People"

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Trump's cabinet are struggling to keep it together. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz helps Stephen Miller win supporters with a new 'do.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Bad Boss: Apparently, it's standard for anyone who Trump hires to be maligned by him on social media for two of the five weeks they work for him.
  • Dirty Coward: Robert Mueller openly admits to being a coward when he leaves the work of impeaching Trump to their "broken, shit-head Congress" without even giving a summary of Trump's crimes to the nation.
    Citizen: Wait, so it's all on Pelosi? Boo...
    Nancy Pelosi: IT'S ALL ON ME?! BOO!
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Trump fires Tim Pawlenty barely 8-minutes in when he suggests that the 10 straight minutes of giving him non-stop compliments every meeting is a waste of time.
  • Insane Troll Logic: To illustrate just how crazy Trump has become, he decides to launch drone-strikes to every country that was mean to him in a dream he had last night.
  • Literal Metaphor: The room Trump's cabinet discuss business in is on fire, illustrating just how dysfunctional everything is.
  • Never My Fault: When Trump's sycophants struggle to make excuses for Trump's dangerous impulsivity, their solution isn't to clean up Trump's act. Instead, Trump has Kellyanne Conway train his cabinet to be better at covering for him.
  • Pointy-Haired Boss: To say that Trump's cabinet is a mess would be putting it lightly. John Bolton locked himself into the trunk of his own car, Mike Pompeo wore traditional silk to meet with the Tai delegation and kept sliding out off of the furniture, and Ben Carson has fallen down the same well 6 times
    Donald Trump: Anyone looks bad when you focus on what they did.
  • Post-Mortem Possessions: After undergoing a spiritual awakening via diet coke and pills, Wilbur Ross concludes that they are dead and is overcome with joy that he still has his wallet.
    Wilbur Ross: I knew I could take my money with me!

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