It wasn’t that there were cables.
It was an issue of EGREGIOUS lack of cable management.
Some of the cables aren’t connected to ANYTHING.
And the fact that they let a picture of the PRESIDENT get published with such lying about.
In fact, the picture seems to put the cables in FRONT of the president.
Almost like it isn’t really a picture of Trump at all, ...
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1189918706303950848
It’s ok Agnes they got Katie Porter/Batgirl prowling halls of D.C. capital. She will have her bat signal light so cables won’t be necessary.
Dear God help them.
Perfectly normal. There are different government communication systems that run on different cables and everything is hardwired. There was probably equipment that was removed from the table for the picture, and then replaced and plugged back in.
Equipment gets swapped out frequently, sometimes more than once a day, in conference rooms like that. No sense to hide all the cables when they're switched around that frequently. My take is "no big deal". No message.
There typically isn’t any cable management.. the cables run to the tabletop and people grab them to plug in. The extras are probably there for additional people. Even in the picture. It’s staged like a sitcom dinner scene, but in real life we spread completely around the table.
Again, I’m 98% sure there is nothing to be read into this. Feel free to have a differing opinion. As I said, I was on a military base in recent weeks and it was almost exactly like this, except they had a garage sale assortment of mismatched furniture.