It’s no secret that flattery is a direct route to Donald Trump‘s heart. Lovebomb him and he’ll soak it up like a giddy schoolgirl and be putty in your hands. Foreign leaders use it as a tool, Republicans use it to keep their jobs, and, for those in his inner circle, Trump adulation now comes as easily as breathing.
And so it was without even a smidgen of shame that, during yesterday’s Cabinet meeting, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins casually told Trump he’ll be remembered in the same light as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln:
