I doubt there were many people who aren’t either full-fledged Trumpanzees or members of Pete Hegseth’s family who were excited to see the Fox News personality chosen to be Yambo’s secretary of defense.
I don’t know if Hegseth is the least qualified member of this president’s cabinet — there are so many worthy candidates — but he’s definitely the least qualified secretary of defense ever to be confirmed. Maybe the only one in Yambo’s cabinet who would have been worse would have been Matt Gaetz as attorney general.
His only military service was in the National Guard and unless he was a night manager of a convenience store while in college, he hasn’t had a job where he ran things. He has had a serious drinking problem and he bought his way out of at least one sexual harassment complaint, although Trump may not see those as negatives.
Remember, this is a president who asked one of his advisors why anyone would volunteer for the military and who called those killed in battle suckers and losers.
Indeed, much of what he has done in the two months he has been in office has been disruptive to the military. He has had Hegseth remove all sorts of references in the archives to heroes who weren’t white heterosexual males.
Navajo code talkers in World War II who gave us a code the Japanese couldn’t break?
Bye bye.
Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
So long.
And perhaps the silliest of all, removing the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Enola Gay?
Yup, don’t say “gay.”
Sayonara.
Now, as out-and-out stupid as all that is, and as silly as it is that Yambo is renaming some of the army bases for Confederates, actions like that don’t really have all that concrete an effect on our military readiness.
Hold my beer.
Hegseth, Vice President Hillbilli Vanilli and a number of other officials including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz were conferencing on an unclassified app to discuss upcoming bombing attacks on the Houthis in Yemen. Of course, this conversation should never have taken place on an app that is open to the public.
That in itself is bad enough, but apparently Waltz inadvertently invited a member of the media — and not one who works for Fox News — to participate.
If this had happened under any other president than Yambo, Republicans would have demanded immediate firings and maybe even executions for treason. Instead, these clowns are trying to blame it all on the media member.
I have a friend who may not be an all-out Trumpanzee, who he has admitted he’s happier with Yambo in the White House than Democrat. He was the first person I ever heard use the phrase “It’s not my circus, it’s not my monkeys.”
Well, this is Yambo’s circus.
And his monkeys.