President Donald Trump held another public praise session during a briefing in Memphis on Monday, a move critics likened to a scene straight out of North Korea.

At one point, Trump even jokingly demanded more flattery.

In clips going viral on social media, Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller credited Trump with a “national miracle” for his work on border security and public safety.

Trump beamed at the praise, then turned to FBI Director Kash Patel.

“So, Kash, see if you can top that,” the president said. “That’s a tough one, Kash.”

Patel then did his best, saying that while America has had “the greatest warriors on God’s green Earth,” they were still missing something.

“But what we didn’t have was you,” he said to Trump. “We didn’t have a commander-in-chief to back the blue.”

Far from backing “the blue,” Trump, on his first official day in office last year, issued blanket pardons to the MAGA crowd that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to block the certification of the 2020 election. Those pardons even covered rioters who were convicted of violent acts against police officers.

Yet Patel praised Trump for his law enforcement efforts, saying the president had allowed law enforcement to catch criminals at “record historic levels.”

“This is an enduring mission, Mr. President, because you have made it enduring,” he gushed. “It is gonna go on for generations to come.”

Patel also celebrated Trump’s “brilliant leadership” and thanked him for “delivering America the safest, safest, safest country on God’s green Earth.”

Trump’s critics could hardly believe what they were seeing:

Not beating the cult allegations. https://t.co/gis2gbqdAu

Toxic, narcissistic leadership paired with conformist followership is responsible for one of America's greatest strategic disasters This exchange alone explains how we got here and why America is doomed if this continues for another three years https://t.co/7LLNgnYGuZ

This is the most un-American bullshit imaginable at this point. https://t.co/t5XAGIj4mY

Maximum North Korea-style sycophancy.

Grown-ass adults competing to see who can be the most shameless bootlicker. https://t.co/vC2uu3Ok9S

Pathetic https://t.co/sGedl5w6K6

Hey Siri: Define humiliation. https://t.co/OUNqI2dzYh

Kim Jong-Un really needs to take notes on how to make his subordinates praise him as Dear Leader.This is some serious next level boot licking. https://t.co/mzSSVQieRh

The North Korea level of fawning from this cabinet gets more pathetic by the day and none of it will ever fill the cosmic void that is Trump's soul. He is an unfix-able sociopath. https://t.co/Mumc5Hmftn

This is the weirdest shit. https://t.co/e0Qu6Qclwk

There’s no end to the humiliation Trump’s minions are willing to endure. https://t.co/0CE9VucguL

This is so embarrassingly pathetic and also not a word of it is true. This ass kissing would make even Kim Jong Un blush. https://t.co/DjVaz4V4WH

Such a bizarre humiliation ritual https://t.co/OQM3E1KUB4

This evening's Dear Leader Talent Contest https://t.co/C3RV6P4b5E

It’s a cult. https://t.co/FhDUmqaBVz

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