Clarence Page: Trump Faces His Generals

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The New York Daily News on Trump and Hegseth’s blundering show for military brass: President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wasted a lot of the military’s money and the valuable time of nearly 1,000 top offices of the armed forces who were ordered to leave their posts around the world and convene at a base in Virginia to hear two absurd and un-American speeches by Hegseth and Trump. The defense secretary, who never went beyond b…

Clarence Page: Trump faces his generals

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Hegseth Says Troops More Likely to be Deployed to U.S. Cities Than Overseas

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Sunday that under a second Trump administration, military recruits could see deployment not to war zones overseas, but to major cities across the United States. Asked about the direction of U.S. military deployments during an interview with Fox correspondent Peter Doocy, Hegseth declared that the new focus is on domestic “wars”—not foreign ones. “If a young man or woman signs up today, are they more likely…

Pete Hegseth: Troops 'more likely' to deployed to 'dangerous' US cities than overseas

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asserted that military recruits were "more likely" to be deployed to "dangerous" cities in the United States than the Middle East.During an interview that aired on Sunday on Fox News, correspondent Peter Doocy noted that the Trump administration had claimed a surge in ...

Letter: At the meeting of generals, Hegseth and Trump made their intent clear

So much reported confusion about what that meeting of generals, called by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, was all about. The two early statements from Trump and Hegseth telling attendees if they didn’t like the message being presented, then just resign, clarifies the real intent: to get as many as possible to resign so they can appoint new loyalists while avoiding the blowback of firings. The more military loyalists, the easier it will be to …

Hegseth & Trump Tell Top Brass to Resign If They Can’t Get With MAGA Program - WhoWhatWhy

During the presentation by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump for the gathered military brass in Quantico, VA, both men called on those before them to get with the Trump agenda — which featured reorienting the US military for deployment against “the enemy within,” in cities like Portland or Chicago — or resign.  Trump said darkly, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your ran…