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The Trump White House 'sycophancy Olympics' and their bizarre 'living diet'

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President Donald Trump is just like a stereotypical high school "mean girl" bully, at least according to a writer who describes having been bullied in high school. The way to stop him, she adds, is to channel what worked in the adolescent social setting. "I think about this a lot while watching how Donald Trump runs the White House and the world alongside a high school clique of dumb jocks (Pete Hegseth!) and hot cheerleaders (Natalie Harp!) and nerdy suck-ups (Mike Johnson!)," wrote The New York Times' contributing writer Molly Jong-Fast on Sunday . She provided details about the Trump White House that illustrate this point. "Mr. Trump’s cabinet of curiosities wears matching $145 Florsheim Oxfords , gifted by the president himself," Jong-Fast reported. "They’re reportedly eating the same 'living diet,' which consists almost entirely of hunks of meat and globs of sauerkraut. (Adherents are said to include: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Vice Pre