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Donald Trump held another televised meeting of advisers on Thursday, where his team leaned in to the sycophantic image that has come to define the president’s second-term operatives.
The president himself, meanwhile, was unsatisfied with merely basking in the glow of his advisers’ praise and instead turned to members of the right-wing press for comfort — while he simultaneously bullied mainstream journalists, backed up by the agreeable chuckles of his allies.
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