“Nobody is talking to Hegseth,” one official said. “There is no interface operationally between Hegseth and the White House at all.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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this asshole is a complete loser
jun 20, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The premise of this headline is completely wrong headed, as if Trump actually cares about policy.
jun 20, 2025, 2:25 am • 3 0 • view
Don’t want him to help Iran set up a flak trap to intercept strategic assets.
jun 20, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Is it not astonishing? None of the positions are occupied by individuals possessing the appropriate qualifications to oversee a department! Only those who understand how to navigate the system! 🥊
jun 20, 2025, 5:18 am • 6 0 • view
👊🇺🇲🔥Sounds as if we are currently clean on opsec 👊🇺🇲🔥
jun 20, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
No surprise there. This is what you get when you hire an unqualified ex FOX news weekend host who is far below the caliber of person who should be in that position. Not to mention that he made the felonious ass look bad.
jun 20, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Whomp whomp
jun 20, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
He's interfacing at the nearest bar.
jun 20, 2025, 2:09 am • 26 0 • view
So is he being demoted back the the rank of major? Those 4 star generals he got rid of will have a chance to pull revenge rank.
jun 21, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
Trump chooses experience? Who's left that even has a clue?
jun 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 8 0 • view
Trump put people, such as Hegseth, in positions of power precisely so he wouldn’t have to deal with them. Trump wants people who will do his bidding, not for their opinions but for their obedience. Trump wants to make all the decisions, and then for those decisions to be carried out, not questioned.
jun 20, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
So the senile sociopathic president isn't consulting the alcoholic incompetent secretary of defense about how to best murder brown people. Way to fucking go America.
jun 20, 2025, 3:03 am • 10 0 • view
Yeah, this about sums it up.
jun 20, 2025, 8:20 pm • 0 0 • view
The White House and Hegseth talking wouldn’t give me any feelings of security- so there’s that
jun 21, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
Wonderful. The Middle East is literally exploding and these two clowns aren’t speaking. Let’s fire Hegseth and impeach Trump. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
jun 20, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 1 • view
“star power”? What crap
jun 20, 2025, 2:21 am • 3 0 • view
SUCKDEF
jun 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
So then…what’s the point of him again?
jun 20, 2025, 5:05 am • 2 0 • view
Almost like headless chickens. And we didn't even need a guillotine.
jun 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Tulsi Gabbard being left out on this has me more worried. Horrible as she is, she's clearly in Putin's league of not wanting to bomb Iran. And with Assad overthrown, she's less use to Trump everyday. In that regard, neither do the rest of us. Let Bibi pay for his crimes
jun 20, 2025, 2:27 am • 5 0 • view
As you reported, he has absolutely no credibility in a real war situation. He’s all PR.
jun 20, 2025, 2:13 am • 19 0 • view
A DUI hire.
jun 20, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
But he's all out for "war fighters"
jun 20, 2025, 2:32 am • 3 0 • view
NOOOOOOO WAAAYYYY?!!!! Trump the teetotaler doesn’t want military advice from a RAGING alcoholic?! WHO would have thought?!!!
jun 20, 2025, 6:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Meanwhile, you have tRump pulling a "Pete" on Untruth Social sharing attack plans...
jun 20, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Pete Hegseth is nothing but a Trump goon who will blindly follow any illegal orders Trump gives, including ordering the military to shoot American citizens. If the military follows such orders then they're no better than Trump or Hegseth.
jun 20, 2025, 9:11 am • 3 0 • view
I'm sorry, is that supposed to impress us?
jun 20, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Welp, this proves 47's goofball appointments are all just for the regular "show" but have role in the dictator's "real show."
jun 20, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Can anyone elaborate on the content? WaPo remains behind a paywall.
jun 20, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Journalism isn't free. Pay up.
jun 20, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I wouldn't pay a drop of sweat in the desert for WaPo 😂 If you're such a crusader support independent journalism.
jun 20, 2025, 9:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Then dont complain when good stories are behind pay walls.
jun 21, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
Trump relies upon experience over star power?! Trump is flying from day to day without a freaking clue except fleece the rubes, destroy any American who doesn't like him, and a total embrace of cruelty.
jun 21, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
So he’s a useful idiot only as and when his useful idiocy is, erm, useful.
jun 20, 2025, 8:16 pm • 5 0 • view
The take home message for me is Trump is ruling like a mob boss and none of his cabinet holds sway over important decisions. It just came out first with the goofballs.
jun 21, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
Hegseth is just another unfit clown in the shit show
jun 20, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Then fire him. Shouldn’t be that difficult to do.
jun 20, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
His press secretary said he’s relying on his instincts, not experience. WaPo making it seem like there’s an adult in any room at the WH.
jun 20, 2025, 2:27 am • 33 0 • view
We are clean on OPSEC
jun 20, 2025, 5:44 am • 1 0 • view
Instincts=extreme narcissistic ego
jun 20, 2025, 2:34 am • 7 0 • view
Still bitter about that parade flop, I see
jun 20, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
🫠
jun 20, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Am I supposed to be reassured by something here? “Trump relies on expertise over star power” So not the drunk he has running the pentagon unsupervised? This is good news? He’s not speaking to Hegseth, his appointed sec of defense?
jun 20, 2025, 2:34 am • 16 1 • view
It's an interesting way to verify that your administration is grossly incompetent.
jun 20, 2025, 2:54 am • 14 0 • view
The Trump administration is a complete 🤡 show.
jun 20, 2025, 2:14 am • 4 0 • view
Hegseth is only there for domestic deployment of troops.
jun 20, 2025, 8:26 pm • 4 0 • view
“Interface operationally” do you hear yourselves
jun 20, 2025, 2:47 am • 9 0 • view
And Trump is too embarrassed to fire him.
jun 20, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
“Relies on experience over star power” when things get serious. Reminds me of when the tariff thing started to crater the bond market. Trump stopped listening to Navarro & went with Besset. He entertains nonsense until something real is at stake.
jun 20, 2025, 2:35 am • 4 0 • view
Calling any of these jokers are star is such a stretch
jun 20, 2025, 2:53 am • 5 0 • view
Yeah, I assume they mean entertainer/star in the rightwing manosphere. I had never heard of him before but I guess he was an anchor on a Saturday Fox News show. Maga’s version of Hollywood.
jun 20, 2025, 2:57 am • 5 0 • view
I'm thinking Hegseth is fine with not having to answer the call of duty.
jun 20, 2025, 6:03 am • 1 0 • view
Experience 😂😂😂😂😂😂
jun 20, 2025, 2:58 am • 4 0 • view
Trump's current infatuation is General Kurilla, the Gorilla. As Trump would say, "straight out of central casting." And if things don't go well, Kurilla will get the same treatment as all of Trump's prior Generals. Hegseth is old news.
jun 20, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
No one wants to discuss important matters with this uninformed madman?
jun 20, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re an asshole for turning on Biden. 🖕🏼
jun 20, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a cluster with Trump calling the shots. Hegseth is yes man at most. Red herring or poor judgment? The decision in two weeks? Why announce it? Will it be another Vietnam and Afganistan?
jun 20, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Credit where credit is due, at least the White House acknowledges Hegseth is unqualified and incompetent. He will make a great fall guy for the régime
jun 20, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Wish they hadn’t gotten rid of all those “woke” experienced officers…
jun 20, 2025, 2:10 am • 11 1 • view
What experience? Rubio? Bannon? Miller the fucking nazi?
jun 21, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
This is probably the first time in US history that the Secretary of Defense isn't being consulted for advice on whether to go to war or not. As Gavin Newsom put it, Hegseth is joke.
jun 20, 2025, 3:55 am • 39 2 • view
Trump even knows he’s a douche
jun 21, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
To be fair, you can't really share anything with Hegseth without Pete immediately live sharing it to his wife, his brother in law, and Jeffrey Goldberg on Signal.
jun 20, 2025, 2:23 am • 75 3 • view
And the Kremlin, but that was totally an accident.
jun 20, 2025, 4:07 am • 15 0 • view
. Trump assumed troops would walk lockstep. Want to bet Hegseth thought so too. .
jun 20, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course …
jun 20, 2025, 8:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Is this comparable to the situation with Tulsi Gabbard?
jun 20, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
I'd bet anything this has more to do with that failure of a parade than anything else going on in the WH.
jun 21, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
📌
jun 20, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
Trump did admit that he chose the whiskey dude for Defense Secretary cuz “he looks good on TV”.
jun 20, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty boy drunk is a huge disappointment to trump regime. Can you imagine: they found someone even *they think is too dumb and incompetent to have around.
jun 20, 2025, 2:16 am • 37 2 • view
Not what you need ...
jun 20, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
Well sure, he was hired to get rid of the blacks and the queers, not actually run the military.
jun 20, 2025, 2:50 am • 3 0 • view
I guess when the rubber hits the road Don Trumpino would like to hear from the actual generals rather the washed up drunk morning tv host?
jun 20, 2025, 2:09 am • 7 0 • view
The White House doesn't care what Hegseth has to say. They only care that Hegseth will do whatever Trump says, no matter how illegal, unethical or foolish. That was Hegseth's sole qualification for the job.
jun 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 22 1 • view
He's the sacrificial lamb kept on tap for when they need a patsy. A perfect fit for that job.
jun 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Do you know lambs, who are alcoholics?
jun 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Wish I did .. yummy 😋 😆 🤣
jun 20, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
The most expensive military in history is headed by the 2 dumbest people in government
jun 20, 2025, 2:30 am • 15 0 • view
It was that squeaky tank in the parade that ruined him.
jun 20, 2025, 8:16 pm • 20 0 • view
You are so right.
jun 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
💯
jun 21, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
When your job is to be a paid parrot of administration talking points, you really shouldn’t be surprised no one wants your actual opinion on things.
jun 20, 2025, 2:14 am • 9 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 2:12 am • 1 0 • view
Another wasted expense that the American taxpayer is incurring?
jun 20, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Good! We don:t need Russian traitors involved.
jun 20, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Did they lock him in his makeup room? I bet they padded it without him knowing.
jun 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
He's a dumbass and so is everyone else in that administration!
jun 20, 2025, 9:37 am • 2 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I've seen that Ratliffe guy in hearings on the Hill before, he had Tulsi Gabbard's job the first time we were dealing with these people - dude is dumber than dog shit or he was acting like it.. director of national intelligence ffs-🫣🙄
jun 20, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
Holy shit, every one of those 4 has zero real military experience except for Raisin Cane - the fate of millions of people hangs on THAT bunch? This is not a reality show, GD it!
jun 20, 2025, 4:15 am • 1 0 • view
I read something about US CentCom and the guy in charge - there was a news report showing National Guard from Wisconsin being deployed to US CentCom, last week, and I was curious.
jun 20, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
Hegseth and Gabbard have been sidelined in discussions about Iran! The Secretary of Defense and the Director of Intelligence!
jun 20, 2025, 1:13 pm • 6 0 • view
They were just for show, anyway. Trump was never going to take their advice. He answers only to Putin.
jun 20, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, who the f wouldn't sideline them with something important? But why were they chosen to begin with? Oh yeah, they were chosen as placeholders who would keep their mouths shut and allow themselves to be sidelined.
jun 20, 2025, 1:14 pm • 5 0 • view
That’s the ONLY smart thing trumps done !
jun 20, 2025, 4:19 am • 2 0 • view
Would you rely on hegseth?🤣
jun 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 3 0 • view
For a drink, yes. For anything else, no.
jun 20, 2025, 6:34 am • 0 0 • view
As a woman, I can’t say the same.
jun 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Fair point!
jun 21, 2025, 7:21 am • 0 0 • view
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
jun 20, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
Star power? Lol what 😂
jun 20, 2025, 2:09 am • 11 0 • view
A cultist and a news anchor. That's circus power!
jun 22, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Is Laura Loomer involved? Steve Bannon? They're real experts, right?
jun 20, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Who exactly has “experience” in this regime? (You can replace “has experience” with “is qualified.”)
jun 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Does it really matter which idiot has input?
jun 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, Trump has vast years of experience in the Middle East. I heard he speaks Farsi, so relying on his experience in dealing with Iran is really the best idea. His not for Prime time secretary of defense is for looks only.
jun 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
Pete Hegseth hasn't changed but the requirements of the job has changed. The situation we have now requires a thoughtful, analytical, experienced individual capable of making good decisions under pressure. Pete isn't that person. Trump got him the job but knew he wasn't qualified.
jun 21, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
trump: who? never heard of him. besides, his show on fox was terrible and i hear he's a drunk.
jun 20, 2025, 9:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Tbf, I wouldn't talk to him either, or any of them
jun 20, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
At least he had that really nice seat for the parade
jun 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
he is the most arrogant lying piece of garbage disrespecting our elected leaders. It’s very easy to believe that he abuses his wife
jun 20, 2025, 4:56 am • 2 0 • view
He was clearly always meant to be the face only. Thats what his resume is, tv appearances, and he knows it and seems to love it
jun 20, 2025, 2:31 am • 2 0 • view
Many seen this coming during Hegseth's confirmation hearings........yet, he was confirmed anyway! Disgraceful
jun 20, 2025, 2:50 am • 3 0 • view
jun 20, 2025, 4:26 am • 1 0 • view
Good
jun 20, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
“Star power” at FOX maybe. Anyone who’s watched him testify in front of Congress, could see that he’s utterly incompetent and comes off as arrogant and unlikable.
jun 20, 2025, 8:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Going to war with Iran and having a Fox News Weekend host running it - what could go wrong 🙄
jun 20, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view