Trump Tears Into Hegseth for Targeting Wrong Country

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Pete Hegseth apparently created a huge mess for Donald Trump in his rush to keep the 79-year-old president happy.

Insiders have revealed that the defense secretary’s abrupt maneuver to cancel the deployment of U.S. troops to Poland triggered an angry phone call from Trump, who was forced to explain that Poland was not one of the European allies that had earned his wrath.

Hegseth, 45, blindsided officials on both sides of the Atlantic last week when he canceled the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland at the eleventh hour. The decision stirred confusion within the Pentagon and quickly sparked a firestorm of criticism from American lawmakers and European allies.

Even the president was stumped by the move, a current and a former U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tears-hegseth-targeting-wrong-192111961.html

Between Hegseth's alcoholism and Trump's dementia we're doomed.

[dalton99a]

1. Fucking clowns

[malaise]

2. What do you expect from a

Kakistocracy?

[vapor2]

3. Don't forget Patel's alcoholism!!

[GopherGal]

4. Gott im Himmel...

What you're telling me is that the psych/dementia patient is mad at the drunkard for planning an attack withdrawing military support from *THE WRONG ALLY*
?????!!!!!!!?????

A couple guidelines for these two incompetents to act by:
1) If they are our ally, (say, a country we have a mutual defense pact with) WE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO DEFEND THEM!
2) If you get orders saying that the demented one wants you to prepare to withdraw support from a country, make damn sure you are targeting the intended country. Please check with someone who can pass BOTH a field sobriety test and a cognitive function test before proceeding.

Perhaps these two rules should be printed in large bold type that can be read through the bottom of a whiskey glass. (I recommend laminating to protect from spillage.) Permanently stationing someone at the Pentagon on-call who can administer both sobriety and cognitive function tests should be considered as well.

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Belated ETA: I had it wrong. The offense was that Haguesbreath was withdrawing troops, as in weakening our capabilities to fulfill mutual defense obligations, FROM THE WRONG ALLY.

[Initech]

5. God I want these fucking idiots out of my government now!

[subterranean]

6. This looks like a headline from The Onion, but it's not.

I wonder how drunk Kegsbreath was when he canceled the deployment.

[Skittles]

19. or if his wife had anything to do with it

[Cha]

7. I hope they're "Doomed". nt

[Takket]

8. so fire him. otherwise he must not really be that upset.........

[duckworth969]

9. Ruh Roh Reroy

[erronis]

10. One quart short of a fifth.

[struggle4progress]

11. A cynical person might wonder whether an extraordinary number of feckless fuckwits had escaped

from a local home for the criminally insane

[orthoclad]

20. aka "Wall Street"

[lastlib]

12. Throw in the abject stupidity of the two......

...and you have a cocktail that can only be called "Doomsday."

[lastlib]

13. Hey, Petey---this one's for you!

"Whiskey Man, don'tcha play that game too long...!"

[surfered]

14. Trump hired him from FOX News, what did he expect? "I only hire the best people." An idiot hiring idiots.

[mtngirl47]

15. The inmates are running the asylum.

Between this screw up and the failed Iran war we should check with polymarket and make bets on how long Hegseth has left.

[tavernier]

16. Oopsie.

Boy that makes me feel so safe and secure. I guess I’d better start drinking again…

[LudwigPastorius]

17. They're just a bunch of jerk offs who think they're playing Risk.

[Blue Owl]

18. How are these incompetent fucksticks not run out by the entire armed forces?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

21. add...

"Between Hegseth's alcoholism and Trump's dementia we're doomed"

Insert "and GOP complacency".

Totally irresponsible.

[ybbor]

22. Don't forget Kennedy's role in HHS

With Ebola going nuts!

[Marie Marie]

23. Hey, for all we know, Trump may have told Petie to do exactly that and then forgot that

he ever said it. Between the two of them, we don't have 2 brain cells. Or, Petie doesn't have a clue about the world at large - a very likely possibility. God, what a mess.

[GenThePerservering]

24. Believe it or not, the only thing really saving us

is the GOP and cabinet's sheer incompetence. OMG, what if they knew what they were doing?