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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,624 posts)
Sun May 24, 2026, 08:17 PM 15 hrs ago

Trump Tears Into Hegseth for Targeting Wrong Country

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.

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Trump Tears Into Hegseth for Targeting Wrong Country (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 15 hrs ago OP
Fucking clowns dalton99a 15 hrs ago #1
What do you expect from a malaise 14 hrs ago #2
Don't forget Patel's alcoholism!! vapor2 14 hrs ago #3
Gott im Himmel... GopherGal 14 hrs ago #4
God I want these fucking idiots out of my government now! Initech 14 hrs ago #5
This looks like a headline from The Onion, but it's not. subterranean 14 hrs ago #6
or if his wife had anything to do with it Skittles 13 hrs ago #19
I hope they're "Doomed". nt Cha 14 hrs ago #7
so fire him. otherwise he must not really be that upset......... Takket 14 hrs ago #8
Ruh Roh Reroy duckworth969 14 hrs ago #9
One quart short of a fifth. erronis 14 hrs ago #10
A cynical person might wonder whether an extraordinary number of feckless fuckwits had escaped struggle4progress 14 hrs ago #11
aka "Wall Street" orthoclad 12 hrs ago #20
Throw in the abject stupidity of the two...... lastlib 13 hrs ago #12
Hey, Petey---this one's for you! lastlib 13 hrs ago #13
Trump hired him from FOX News, what did he expect? "I only hire the best people." An idiot hiring idiots. surfered 13 hrs ago #14
The inmates are running the asylum. mtngirl47 13 hrs ago #15
Oopsie. tavernier 13 hrs ago #16
They're just a bunch of jerk offs who think they're playing Risk. LudwigPastorius 13 hrs ago #17
How are these incompetent fucksticks not run out by the entire armed forces? Blue Owl 13 hrs ago #18
add... SleeplessinSoCal 12 hrs ago #21
Don't forget Kennedy's role in HHS ybbor 12 hrs ago #22
Hey, for all we know, Trump may have told Petie to do exactly that and then forgot that Marie Marie 12 hrs ago #23
Believe it or not, the only thing really saving us GenThePerservering 11 hrs ago #24

GopherGal

(2,956 posts)
4. Gott im Himmel...
Sun May 24, 2026, 08:48 PM
14 hrs ago

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.

subterranean

(3,776 posts)
6. This looks like a headline from The Onion, but it's not.
Sun May 24, 2026, 08:51 PM
14 hrs ago

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

struggle4progress

(126,706 posts)
11. A cynical person might wonder whether an extraordinary number of feckless fuckwits had escaped
Sun May 24, 2026, 09:26 PM
14 hrs ago

from a local home for the criminally insane

lastlib

(28,664 posts)
12. Throw in the abject stupidity of the two......
Sun May 24, 2026, 09:39 PM
13 hrs ago

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

surfered

(14,384 posts)
14. Trump hired him from FOX News, what did he expect? "I only hire the best people." An idiot hiring idiots.
Sun May 24, 2026, 09:54 PM
13 hrs ago

mtngirl47

(1,265 posts)
15. The inmates are running the asylum.
Sun May 24, 2026, 09:56 PM
13 hrs ago

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

tavernier

(14,523 posts)
16. Oopsie.
Sun May 24, 2026, 10:00 PM
13 hrs ago

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

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,440 posts)
21. add...
Sun May 24, 2026, 10:50 PM
12 hrs ago

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

Insert "and GOP complacency".

Totally irresponsible.

Marie Marie

(11,556 posts)
23. Hey, for all we know, Trump may have told Petie to do exactly that and then forgot that
Sun May 24, 2026, 11:13 PM
12 hrs ago

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

(3,749 posts)
24. Believe it or not, the only thing really saving us
Sun May 24, 2026, 11:56 PM
11 hrs ago

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

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