In-town note 3: Cabinet color

Cabinet is seated in their customary places with SecState Rubio and SecDef Hegseth on either side of POTUS.

VPOTUS is directly across from POTUS. Each attendee has a paper tag at their place with names/titles except for POTUS, VPOTUS and Elon Musk, who is seated at pool’s left/ POTUS’ right between DNI Gabbard and SBA administrator Loeffler. His tag just says “Elon Musk.”

Musk had been wearing a DOGE hat, then put on one of the many “Gulf of America” hats that have been placed on the table. He later put the DOGE hat back on.

Pool also spotted Homeland Security Secretary Noem wearing the very nice but now-infamous gold Rolex Daytona she wore during her visit to El Salvador’s CECOT.

POTUS has finished remarks and is now going around the table so cabinet members can speak, starting with SecDef Hegseth.

Meeting is being broadcast live and is ongoing.

Andrew Feinberg

White House Correspondent

The Independent

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