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The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Flatterers out in force to fill Trump’s head with Venezuelan statue dreams

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Trump with Doug Burgum, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and Howard Lutnick on Thursday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

They have become so notorious for displays of flattery and obsequiousness that critics have drawn comparisons with North Korea. Thursday’s cabinet meeting at the White House was no different.

Doug Burgum, the US interior secretary, outflanked his fellow praise singers by saying he believes that Venezuela – which the US attacked in January – intends to honour the president with a statue.

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