Having an agenda for meetings to kind of keep things on track/topic is one thing. Having prescreened questions and answers, isn’t a working meeting, rather a theater production.
Traditionally the majority of cabinet members are political hacks and caretakers for their agencies.
However there are normally a few of them that are competent and can give reasonably intelligent advice and counsel.
This group seems totally brain dead and useless—so cabinet meetings are a total waste.