Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Tom Nichols: The CiC Is Not OK

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's convocation of hundreds of generals and admirals today turned out to be, in the main, a nothingburger...

All in all, an utterly embarrassing address. But that wasn't the worst of it. The assembled military leaders likely already knew that Hegseth is unqualified for his job, and they could mostly tune out the sloganeering that Hegseth, a former TV host, was probably aiming more at Fox News and the White House than at the military itself. What they could not ignore, however, was the spectacle that President Donald Trump put on when he spoke after Hegseth.

Comments

What is wrong with Donald Trump, why he is in fact insane, is not a mystery.

Why MAGA supports him anyway is, sadly, not much of a mystery either.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-01 04:57 PM

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