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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,649 posts)
Sun May 24, 2026, 08:17 PM 23 hrs ago

Trump Tears Into Hegseth for Targeting Wrong Country [View all]

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