--- title: Chuck Schumer Mocks Donald Trump's Cabinet Meeting in Video description: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted a video on Twitter mocking President Donald Trump's praise-filed first full cabinet meeting canonical: https://time.com/4815307/chuck-schumer-parody-video-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/ author: Emily Weyrauch article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-12T20:31:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:06:44.279Z article:section: Politics og:title: Chuck Schumer Had His Own Version of Trump's Flattery-Filled Cabinet Meeting og:description: He and his staff mocked the meeting in a video og:url: https://time.com/4815307/chuck-schumer-parody-video-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1176dcecdfa63c47/6988d14c2dce0100089ede11/gettyimages-695241608.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-CABINET og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chuck Schumer Had His Own Version of Trump's Flattery-Filled Cabinet Meeting twitter:description: He and his staff mocked the meeting in a video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1176dcecdfa63c47/6988d14c2dce0100089ede11/gettyimages-695241608.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chuck Schumer Had His Own Version of President Trump's Flattery-Filled Cabinet Meeting by [Emily Weyrauch](https://time.com/author/emily-weyrauch/) ## Emily Weyrauch Jun 12, 2017 8:31 PM UTC  (L-R) White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Veran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson laugh during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2017. (L-R) White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Veran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson laugh during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2017.NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images by [Emily Weyrauch](https://time.com/author/emily-weyrauch/) ## Emily Weyrauch Jun 12, 2017 8:31 PM UTC Senate Minority Leader [Chuck Schumer](http://time.com/4722100/chuck-schumer-april-fools-joke/) posted a video on Twitter mocking President Donald Trump’s praise-filled first full cabinet meeting. Schumer’s video is captioned, “GREAT meeting today with the best staff in the history of the world!!!” and consists of staffers lavishing compliments on Schumer in a not-so-subtle dig at Trump’s meeting, where Trump’s [Cabinet](http://time.com/4644292/donald-trump-the-office-intro/) lauded the president’s actions so far. “You have great hair, nobody has better hair than you,” said a staffer in Schumer’s parody video. “Before we go any further, I just want to say thank you for the opportunity and blessing to serve your agenda,” said a staffer in Schumer’s parody video — almost an exact quote from the White House Chief of Staff [Reince Priebus](http://time.com/4676109/reince-priebus-donald-trump-russia-campaign/) in Trump’s Cabinet meeting — before the whole table bursts into laugher. > [](https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/874327317748883456) Trump’s meeting was criticized by some after the [odd assortment of compliments was televised](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/06/12/trump-touts-amazing-progress-basks-in-praise-of-his-cabinet/?utm%5Fterm=.834888d1f7fa). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4815307/chuck-schumer-parody-video-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4815307/chuck-schumer-parody-video-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/"},"headline":"Chuck Schumer Had His Own Version of President Trump's Flattery-Filled Cabinet Meeting","datePublished":"2017-06-12T20:31:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:06:44.279Z","description":"\"We thank you for the opportunity and blessing to serve your agenda,” said a staffer Schumer's parody video before bursting into laughter","url":"https://time.com/4815307/chuck-schumer-parody-video-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/","keywords":["Senate","politics","Internet","U.S.","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1176dcecdfa63c47/6988d14c2dce0100089ede11/gettyimages-695241608.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Emily Weyrauch","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/emily-weyrauch/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1176dcecdfa63c47/6988d14c2dce0100089ede11/gettyimages-695241608.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-CABINET","caption":"(L-R) White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Veran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson laugh during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2017.","creditText":"NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/senate/","name":"Senate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4815307/chuck-schumer-parody-video-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/","name":"Chuck Schumer Had His Own Version of President Trump's Flattery-Filled Cabinet Meeting"}}]}] ```