標題:Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk
Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet
Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.
正文:Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world. Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff. You have fired “nobody,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
知識點 :be incensed
to be extremely angry or outraged. 非常憤怒;激怒。
e.g. Marco Rubio was incensed by the unfair criticism from his colleagues. 馬可·魯比奧對同事們的無理批評感到非常憤怒。
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