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Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall
Trump will only tolerate being embarrassed for so long — especially when he can scapegoat him for Iran.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suffered a significant defeat last week as one of his signature policy initiatives was quietly shelved. Details are sketchy, but for whatever reason, the Pentagon has pulled back on Hegseth’s effort to make the United States military the most testosterone-blasted, masculinity-maxxed fighting force in the world.
In July, Hegseth announced in a bizarre video that service members were going to be screened to see if they needed to add some man-juice to their supplement stack in order to achieve maximum lethality, “ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best.” But Reuters now reports that “the Pentagon is temporarily rescinding recently published clinical guidance for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for service members aged 30 and older.” Cue the sad trombone.
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In a cabinet full of grifters and nincompoops, Hegseth stands out for his combination of belligerent buffoonishness and rampaging incompetence. As ill-advised as it is to make predictions in politics, we’ll offer this one: Hegseth will be the next Trump cabinet secretary to be fired or forced to resign, and it won’t be long.
Unfortunately, it also won’t be for the right reasons. Hegseth, formerly a weekend co-host on Fox & Friends, was the most unqualified defense secretary in history by a country mile, and he has surprised no one by becoming perhaps the most disastrous one we’ve ever seen.
But being bad at your job won’t get you the boot in Donald Trump’s government; for that, you have to become enough of a public embarrassment that he decides you’re reflecting poorly on him. And Hegseth is just about there.
How many ways can you screw up the military?
Just three months into his tenure as secretary, things had gotten bad enough that the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon.”
They weren’t the only ones noticing; a former Trump Pentagon aide wrote in Politico that “the building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership.” If anything, the madness has only increased since then.
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