Pete Hegseth has meltdown in front of a group of children
It is possible, though not always, to see how someone’s mental health is doing by listening to them talk. That’s not ALWAYS the case. However, when people react to appropriate questions with inappropriate responses, that is one way of gouging their emotional state. For Pete Hegseth, I think his emotional state is around -50°F and getting colder every second.
So, on Sunday, Pete was asked about signal gate number two during an Easter event. This article is about Pete’s bizarre manic, and deeply cartoonish response to this seemingly innocuous question asked by a single reporter. After all, it’s just a question the reporter was asking.
Hegseth’s response was telling. He morphs into a sort of poor man’s version of Jack Nicholson’s character in The Shining. He went from calm to crazy, from innocuous to insane, in about half a nanosecond. Hoaxsters, he bellowed, meaning the media are the hoaxsters.
Axes to grind, he bellowed, once again referring to the media and no doubt, scaring many people around him, and ensuring he would star in many upcoming late-night nightmares. He declared that the media makes up the stories, and then wagged his finger in indignation. I repeat, the head of the military proceeds to wag his finger in indignation, his head obviously filled with moving pictures of his own wonderful image.
Making matters worse, as he had the motherload of all meltdowns: his children were right there! It was a shocking, almost frightening response from what is supposed to be a competent leader. I mean, that’s what Donald Trump promised us, right? That the man was competent and knew what he was doing.
There is no way anybody could look at this person sputtering defensively, name-calling the media, engaging in an act of desperation so obviously meant to save his job, and think this is a rational common sense individual. I mean you just can’t. If you ask me, many of the reporters looked shocked too.
In all seriousness, folks, this was a stunning display of imbecilic behavior. This response was almost as bad as the whole Signal Gate scandal in the first place. Pete Hegseth was obviously on defense. I’ve got news for him. When you’re on defense, you’re losing. If the man had quietly and lucidly answered the question, and provided some sort of rational and logical explanation, perhaps this article would have been written a bit differently.
As it stands, it is impossible to view the meltdown as anything other than what it was: a desperate, act of television showmanship, made by a desperate person who knows damn good and well that they don’t know how to do the job and that this job is now in deep Jeopardy.
