There are priorities & then there are priorities.
Trump likes spit & polish & gold gilt more than I do—when he can have his preferences.
Yet, thankfully, he seems to major in majors & minor in minors.
The cable messy table was unsightly but not disturbing, to me. I doubt that anyone in the room were slowed down much in their doings by the messy cables—except maybe for the odd hyper-OCD afflicted person who may have been there.
Do the start page search.
How many times has this happened.
There are people there to see that this doesn’t, in fact, happen.
It was deliberate.
It appears that table has ‘cable management’ down the center of it.
I can find no other pictures (with any CINC) with that level of unkemptness.
Others with personal knowledge of similar meetings in the mil have chimed in and said that the cable stuff is totally normal. Probably you’ve seen their responses already.