{"id":17895,"date":"2025-02-26T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/trump-cabinet-flunkies-hail-wannabe-caesar-and-elon-his-oligarch-pal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:39:13","slug":"trump-cabinet-flunkies-hail-wannabe-caesar-and-elon-his-oligarch-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/trump-cabinet-flunkies-hail-wannabe-caesar-and-elon-his-oligarch-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special adviser showed instinctive feel for authoritarianism as he addressed the president\u2019s first full cabinet meeting<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, just over a mile from the White House, the classicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/jan\/30\/mary-beard-the-cult-of\">Mary Beard<\/a> spoke to an audience about Roman emperors. \u201cAn autocrat is somebody who kills you when he\u2019s being his most generous,\u201d she remarked. \u201cYou go to dinner, you think, wow, this is wonderful! But the generosity of the autocrat is always potentially lethal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> held his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/trump-cabinet-meeting-musk\">first full cabinet meeting<\/a>. The mood was warm and convivial and, some might say, generous. Housing secretary Scott Turner offered a prayer that included: \u201cThank you, God, for President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/trump-cabinet-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d728c1c683af49686c15d1fa804bcef779a47324\/0_148_3429_2057\/master\/3429.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e1c4d3157e25a0836b4cb8f82e4d28dc\" title=\"Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal\" \/>Special adviser showed instinctive feel for authoritarianism as he addressed the president\u2019s first full cabinet meeting<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, just over a mile from the White House, the classicist Mary Beard spoke to an audience about Roman emperors. \u201cAn autocrat is somebody who kills you when he\u2019s being his most generous,\u201d she remarked. \u201cYou go to dinner, you think, wow, this is wonderful! But the generosity of the autocrat is always potentially lethal.\u201d<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, Donald Trump held his first full cabinet meeting. The mood was warm and convivial and, some might say, generous. Housing secretary Scott Turner offered a prayer that included: \u201cThank you, God, for President Trump.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special adviser showed instinctive feel for authoritarianism as he addressed the president\u2019s first full cabinet meeting On Tuesday, just over a mile from the White House, the classicist Mary Beard spoke to an audience about Roman emperors. \u201cAn autocrat is somebody who kills you when he\u2019s being his most generous,\u201d she remarked. \u201cYou go to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/trump-cabinet-flunkies-hail-wannabe-caesar-and-elon-his-oligarch-pal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}