flatterer

Taft also said in a 1912 campaign speech in Ohio that, "I hold that the man is a demagogue and a flatterer who comes out and tells the people that they know it all. I hate a flatterer. I like a man to tell the truth straight out, and I hate to see a man try to honeyfuggle the people by telling them something he doesn't believe."

“And I assure you, Mr. Weston, I have very little doubt that my opinion will be decidedly in his favour. I have heard so much in praise of Mr. Frank Churchill.—At the same time it is fair to observe, that I am one of those who always judge for themselves, and are by no means implicitly guided by others. I give you notice that as I find your son, so I shall judge of him.—I am no flatterer.”

If the host is the king of this court, the sidekick isn’t the jester so much as the flatterer, the yes man, the official doormat.

And at least they know that Biden, unlike Trump, won’t suddenly change his mind based on which sycophantic flatterer managed to talk to him last.

Anyone who does otherwise either comes to ruin because of the flatterer, or keeps changing his mind in the face of different opinions; resulting in a low estimation of his worth.