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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun May 24, 2026, 08:17 PM May 24

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