Pete Hegseth jumps the shark
We may have reached a point where things have come full circle. While the focus on last week was deportations – an issue that’s not likely to go away any time soon, we’re getting two other facets of Trump’s clown show presidency back into the folds. News of the tariffs are back, and the Pete Hegseth Signalgate has also come back into the fold, with the revelation that not only did the defense secretary knowingly share confidential information, but his top generals also requested that the information be classified. You know that things are particularly bad when Don Bacon, a top House Republican, is calling on him to be fired.
There’s talk that the White House is already looking for another secretary of defense and that’s probably just a lot of natter not worth following on its own. It’s either true and the administration is floating it, or it’s the various factions of the GOP warring among themselves and trying to get themselves mentioned in the headlines as possible contenders for the job – and neither is really worth writing about until it happens.
What is significant is that this has clearly rattled pretty much everyone across the spectrum – so you see Republicans as well as liberal and moderate Democrats weighing in and rightfully dragging Hegseth over the coals for not just his stupidity, but his imbecilic defense of putting our troops in harm’s way. The message is clear: The Trump administration doesn’t care about national security. Let’s spread it far and wide as we go into the 2025 and 2026 elections.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making