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President Donald Trump's top officials have been laying it on thick as his poll numbers take a beating.

The 79-year-old president tries to project nothing but total confidence in himself, but MS NOW's Anthony L. Fisher noticed that his high-ranking administration officials seem to be publicly trying to boost his flagging self-esteem.

"In recent weeks it’s been plain to see that he is desperately flailing at his job, that he’s feeling the heat from dwindling options and disastrous poll numbers — and that no one is coming to his rescue," Fisher wrote. "Enter the craven careerists of his administration, who in their dear leader’s time of need have elevated their public displays of adulation into new echelons of sycophancy, with little consideration for their own dignity."

The president has been scanning the horizon for an off-ramp from his war with Iran, and travelers are growing increasingly furious with watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents standing by idly as they wait for hours in airport security lines or pay more than $4 a gallon for gasoline if they decide to drive to spring break destinations.

"Trump’s approval rating on handling the economy has fallen to a sub-Biden low of 29 percent — the lickspittles of the Trump administration have added an extra layer of obsequiousness to their hosannas for the president," Fisher wrote.

Fisher noted with disdain Stephen Miller's minutes-long recitation of Trump's accomplishments at a recent event, and the president challenged FBI Director Kash Patel to "top that," and the law enforcement official did his best to grovel and scrape.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put on his own unctuous performance during a press briefing on the Iran war, while Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr called Trump a "political colossus" who's "the alpha in every single room" in which he deigns to appear, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been clomping around in comically large dress shoes given to him by the president.

"Trump’s weakness for flattery and his insatiable thirst for praise are well documented, as is the blind devotion he enjoys from much of his MAGA following, Fisher wrote. "But ever since Trump started a war with Iran, putting in motion events now far beyond his control, his haplessness has left him looking a little needy. That might explain the dramatic uptick in aggressive brownnosing by some of the highest-ranking members of his administration."

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