100 Days of stupid
Hegseth and Trump so underwater in the polls they could tour a submarine and still not go this deep
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“Not great, Bob.”
It’s tradition to look at things as an Administration reaches the 100 day mark as a measure of their success or failure. At this point their policies are being implemented, legislative agenda has been proposed, and most positions filled.
Then there is the cluster fu¢k that is the Trump Administration.
This clown car has been careening around ruining things for months from Elon Musk’s dismantling of the government, Stephen Miller’s vampire dreams, and J.D. Vance’s killing of the Pope it’s been one screw up after another.
I mean…this is literally where he sits in this ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll. Trump has the lowest approval rating at this point in over 70 years.
He is incapable of governing with any kind of real leadership or stable management. Even when he took office four years ago he hired a lot of the ‘adults in the room’ from the Republican Party to help things in those early days. This time he came in hiring not the B team, the JV, or even the Little Leagues.
He’s hired a freak show of rejects, losers, and camera hogs with no idea what they are doing and little interest in learning how to do it. From RFK Jr. to Kristi Noem we have an administration stocked with the most freakishly stupid people to ever suck in air.
Which leads us to Pete Hegseth.
Signal, makeup, and Yoko Ono
Secretary of Defense Hegseth, or “Signal Pete,” as they call him at the Pentagon according to my friends in the military has had the most spectacularly bad run of any of the Z list of Cabinet picks Trump has made.
The list insane. Here is a sampling off the top of my head.
As soon as he was announced a flood of reports came out about hush payments to a woman he allegedly sexually assaulted, mismanagement of the two nonprofits he ran, excessive drinking and more.
Had to get a tie breaking vote for confirmation l from the Vice President and was the narrowest vote in chamber history for a defense secretary nominee, and only the second time the vice president has cast a tie-breaking vote for a Cabinet nominee…ever.
Immediately caused distress by ordering a wholesale hunt for any mentions on public facing websites or social media for the last ten years of “DEI” and in the process erased the history of black, latino, and women military members from Jackie Robinson to the first women to fly in the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds.
We found out that Hegseth had hired his own younger brother, Phil, as an aide to tag along on all of his adventures like meeting Connor McGregor and flying to Hawaii. They got around nepotism laws by naming him a Department of Homeland Security liaison and thus not in DOD. His office? Down the hallway from Pete’s…totally legit.
Then came SignalGate 1.0 when he famously shared highly classified strike plans in a group chat that included the Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic magazine with the now famous and absolutely hysterical footnote that,”We are clean on OPSEC ” that is now the butt of jokes being spread all over the Pentagon on this sticker. (Available here)
It leaked that he was planning on giving Elon Musk a classified briefing on China even as the business man maintains massive business contracts and high level connections to the Communist Chinese government. This was killed by the leak and Trump himself saying it was inappropriate. This led to a massive witch hunt for leakers that led to…
In one week five of his top aides and staff members were either fired or resigned in disgrace as he frantically searched for the leakers. Stories came out that he had screamed at 4-star flag officers accusing them of being the leakers and one of the fired aides, John Ullyot, went as far as writing a scathing Oped condemning him.
Then we find out his wife is accompanying him to classified meetings with foreign military leaders and a later story that says she is called ‘Yoko Ono’ in the Pentagon for her constant presence and bulling her way into things that aren’t her business.
Then we had SignalGate 2.0 where we found out that there was another group chat where he shared the Yemen strike plans but this one had his wife, brother, and lawyer in it among 10 others including those former aides that told him not to use his personal phone and Signal to send classified info…and he did it anyway.
I am not even sure I got them all. It’s been one after another and then today Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America came out with a poll of veterans of the Global War on Terror and it isn’t great for ‘Signal Pete’ or the entire Trump Regime.
There is some truly fascinating results from this survey that included 1402 Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who were veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria. 86% believe that Hegseth and the others should face some kind of accountability for their foolish use of Signal.
Will he be first to go?
Trump hates to admit he was wrong about anything. My sources tell me that they ended up with Hegseth because Susie Wiles foolishly took some days off during the transition and Don Jr. and Jared sold Trump on Hegseth for SecDef. So, the knives have almost always been out for him.
But, Trump does not want to give a victory to the Democrats or the media if possible but then today I saw this comment he made in his 100 day interview when asked about Hegseth: "I think he's gonna get it together."
This means he does not currently have it together in Trump’s eyes and that’s the kind of faint praise he traditionally offers someone right before they are dismissed in an effusive Truth Social post.
Besides that from anything we have seen, there is zero chance he will “get it together.” According to the Daily Mail story about his wife being a presence at the Pentagon, the reasoning is…well….something.
“One of the insiders who spoke to DailyMail.com said Hegseth relies on her to prepare and supervise him just like she did beyond the scenes on Fox News, and to fill a more personal need to keep his sobriety from slipping, eyes from wandering and pants zipped.”
Call me old school but I would hope the person charged with running the largest and most complex cabinet department in the United States government doesn’t need his sweet “angeleyes” to keep him from dropping his pants for someone during the work day. But, when you are on your third marriage, and the second one that started as a work affair, I can understand her concern.
I also understand he has no place leading our service members and needs to go immediately. I think Signal Pete will be the first departure of many from this sequel ‘Trump 2: Even More Stupid than Last Time.’
Unless I missed it, you failed to mention the installation of a private dressing/makeup room for Hegseth at the Pentagon.
So many walking cluster fucks walking around breathing, tearing this country up and opening it up to any and all enemies like a can of sardines. 47, while the chief culprit, is not the only party to this mess. He had far too much help in Congress.