Everything is fine: Trump's cabinet gives short shrift to disapponting data

Contraction? What contraction? As far as US President Donald Trump and his cabinet were concerned on Wednesday all was well with the economy — and with everything else too.

- DANNY KEMP

News that the US economy unexpectedly shrank amid the chaos of Trump's tariffs did not stop his top team from heaping praise on the president at a meeting the day after his 100th day back in power.

In a nationalistic touch, red and black baseball caps embroidered with the words “Gulf of America” were placed in front of each senior official around the huge wooden cabinet table at the White House.

Billionaire Elon Musk even put one of the red hats — which use the name the administration has unilaterally decreed for the Gulf of Mexico — on top of his own signature black baseball cap.

“Everybody is outstanding,” Trump said during the marathon two-hour cabinet meeting in front of reporters. “I've never been so impressed.”

SINGING HIS PRAISES

The 78-year-old Trump began by trumpeting his core topic of migration, hailing what he said was an “amazing job” of cutting migrant crossings over the border from Mexico.