I have said this a million times, and I'll say it again right now, knowing I'm going to say it again soon.
I am absolutely bonkers for the way the Trump cabinet, every last one of them, is so comfortable in their own accomplished skins, and are such naturally good-humored, confident people that they can bang away at each other in public like long-lost brothers, yet no one dissolves into a snit fit, or leaks enraged texts to Nicholas Kristof about abuse.
They are flat-out hilarious in their own right.
Witness Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent (WOOF - gimme a moment here) as he effortlessly bodies churlish imp Robert Reich on X the other day.
McDonald's problem is called Burger King, Professor. No wonder Bill Clinton fired you.
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) August 10, 2026
UC Berkeley should too, if that’s what passes for “research.” https://t.co/2XHXR2XWCS
When they start telling tales on each other, they are hysterical.
The latest iteration of dogging the neighbors, literally, is an interview Stephen Miller's wife, Katie, did with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and his wife, Jeannette. Now, it doesn't hurt that both wives are cute as buttons, and it's obvious they're all close friends - another astonishing thing to observe in this cabinet - but what happens in this light-hearted sit-down with the Rubios is so fun.
Katie asks the Sec. if he's a proponent of RFK Jr.'s MAHA diet.
The answer will set back healthy eating by decades.
I love this whole freakin' cabinet. They are HYSTERICAL. And not ONE of them is too much of a prima donna to take a serious dogging from any of the others or give it back just as good.
— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) August 12, 2026
RUBIO: “No! This is a CRAZY diet. This is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat. Now you understand like this is not a sustainable thing. He has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut!”
“I'm not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It's ridiculous. I can't do it!”
Q: Are you MAHA?
RUBIO: “I'm in favor of MAHA. Like I think people should be healthy.”
JEANETTE: No, he's not.
Q: What's he eat?
JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts!
RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.”
IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Not an 'any kind of diet' guy.
Marco Rubio is just not a diet guy:
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) August 12, 2026
“I tried keto once.
“It was a near-psychotic event for me. If I had been in this job while doing it, I would’ve been like, “Mr. President, we must bomb Paraguay.”
“And it’s like, why? I don’t know. I’m just really mad. I haven’t had any… pic.twitter.com/PXsqLCW1kG
...“And it’s like, why? I don’t know. I’m just really mad. I haven’t had any sugar.“
Pop-Tarts for the win! And to spare Paraguay.
Another funny story is about the Secretary of War and his houseful of cats, but it's set against a somber background story. The Millers, Hegseths, Rubios, etc. have all had to move into quarters on a small Army base near D.C. thanks to the current unhinged lunatic environment.
The Atlantic story explaining what prompted the moves naturally tries to shift some of the blame for the open hostility and dangerous times onto Trump himself, but it's not really successful.
The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It also wasn’t anything new.
For weeks before Kirk’s death, activists had been protesting the Millers’ presence in north Arlington, Virginia. Someone had put up wanted posters in their neighborhood with their home address, denouncing Stephen as a Nazi who had committed “crimes against humanity.” A group called Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity warned in an Instagram post: “Your efforts to dismantle our democracy and destroy our social safety net will not be tolerated here.” The local protest became a backdrop to the Trump administration’s response to Kirk’s killing. When Miller, the architect of that response who is known for his inflammatory political rhetoric, announced a legal crackdown on liberal groups, he singled out the tactics that had victimized his family—what he called “organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting peoples’ addresses.”
Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization, to which the Trump administration has itself contributed, that some of those top public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public. These civilian officials can now depend on the U.S. military to augment their personal security. But so many have made the move that they are now straining the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers.
It's a really sad commentary on the Left but completely unsurprising.
And it does lead to revelations like this. First about wandering golden doodles, and then...cats.
Marco Rubio: I never took @PeteHegseth for a cat guy.
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) August 11, 2026
One of Pete’s cats, oftentimes I’ll get home at night and the cat is just sitting on my porch, looking at me like, “What are you doing here?”
To be honest with you, it’s a very arrogant cat.
He’s on my porch acting like,… pic.twitter.com/ZnWKdJdOwV
...To be honest with you, it’s a very arrogant cat.
He’s on my porch acting like, “What are you doing in my house?” And it’s like, no—your house is two doors down. But the cat just looks at you. Usually a cat, you approach it, takes off running. He just sits there, tail going like this, staring at you like, “What’s up?”
Leading to gut-busting memes in the comments.
Visiting Hegseth. pic.twitter.com/hFP9UjVstf
— AmericanGreatness (@NONbiasedly) August 12, 2026
DYING HERE
Partytime at Hegseth's pic.twitter.com/R8P6IIbEf2
— Schrödinger's cat (@RatEatingHater) August 12, 2026
Can you imagine Hillary or Winken Blinken pulling something requiring this much animated personality off?
No.
And you certainly couldn't imagine a Sec. State talking about any previous defense secretary and pulling his leg.
It's just marvelous.
And they all do it. They're all human beings.
Even the White House is in on cracking on everyone.
The White House made a Rubio Realizing Meme collage for his birthday (May 28), which the president & others signed https://t.co/5oVDfTFaed pic.twitter.com/S2KsnRta3S
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 13, 2026
SHARKS IN THE REFLECTING POOL - I GOTTA SHOW THIS TO THE PRESIDENT
Marco Rubio on Sharknado vs Jaws:
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) August 11, 2026
“Now you could see, actually, there’s a scene where the sharks are in the Reflecting Pool in the Sharknado movie, and this was 10 years ago.
“So I’m like, man, I gotta show this to the President.
“And can you imagine? We put sharks in the… pic.twitter.com/vP3sbOKWLy
...“So I’m like, man, I gotta show this to the President.
“And can you imagine? We put sharks in the Reflecting Pool. “
It would sure keep the vandals and waders out.
SOLD!
Beege ADDS: ZOMG, I LOVE THESE MEN!!!!
Fake news…….
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 13, 2026
I prefer cherry flavor https://t.co/bVMZJV9dPl
And I'm DED.
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