Trump: "Now there are those that saw we shouldn't be accepting gifts to the Defense Department. And I would say, only a stupid person would say that. Why wouldn't I do that?" (The Constitution prohibits it without congressional approval!)

Tammy Bruce: "We are not gonna get Ukraine to where it was before 2014 and before. This is something where both parties are gonna have to compromise."

FOX BUSINESS: The budget calls for replacing the space launch system. Is there a chance that Elon Musk could benefit from that?

RUSSELL VOUGHT: It's open to all companies

(That's a yes)

No work of fiction - unless it was a deliberately over-the-top satire - would get away with depicting something so deranged, so ridiculous, so pathetic as these cabinet meetings.

The government of the most powerful nation in human history: In the hands of a movement fully detached from reality.

Auchincloss on Fox News: "What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who along with Howard Lutnick is self-dealing on crypto instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar."

Kristi Noem on Abrego Garcia's wife: "Is she still scared? So many people and victims I've worked with over the years, they say one thing in public because they have to to survive or to protect their children. So I wouldn't say that what she's saying today is how she really feels."