’This is how you lead’: El Salvador president stuns cabinet officials with shock move

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele shocked his entire cabinet by summoning them to announce they’re under investigation for corruption. President Bukele posted a video to X, revealing him requesting the Attorney General, the only one present not on his government’s executive branch, to investigate all of them for bribery. The officials’ stunned reactions were evident as they gathered for the announcement. The video has since gone viral online and earnt the praise of right-wing commentators and activists. “This is how you lead. Whether it is well executed or not, we shall see. But this is how you lead,“ Former CIA Ops Officer Bryan Dean Wright wrote on X. TurningPointUSA Founder and CEO Charlie Kirk praised the move as a “master class for all the world to see on how to be a transformative, once in a generation leader“.