Monday, June 12, was a day of ritual, which masked the president’s agita. Trump convened his first full cabinet meeting, a now infamous session in which U.S. government officials took turns pledging fealty to their master. “On behalf of the entire senior staff around you, Mr. President, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda and the American people,” Reince Priebus crowed. But no one was loyal to anyone in the orbit of Donald Trump.
