‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell

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a wild-eyed, fast-talking Pete Hegseth and Trump’s detour from ‘fat drugs for fat people’ to extrajudicial killings to Melania’s thoughts on the construction noise around the new ballroom at the White House

You can laugh, or you can cry. But what you definitely cannot do — without a stiff dose of irony — is treat this as normal. Because the current Donald Trump feat. Pete Hegseth Show (working title: “Were They War Crimes? And Other Questions We Don’t Care to Answer”) is already stranger than satire.

‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell

Holly Baxter reports on a wild-eyed, fast-talking Pete Hegseth and Trump’s detour from ‘fat drugs for fat people’ to extrajudicial killings to Melania’s thoughts on the construction noise around the new ballroom at the White House

www.independent.co.uk

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Or — or! There is another alternative. If you’re War Daddy Pete Hegseth, you take to social media and post a doctored cover of Franklin the Turtle — yes, the picture-book turtle who teaches kids manners and friendship — reimagined brandishing a bazooka, targeting “narco-terrorists.” And you write in the caption: “For your Christmas wish list.”

The publisher of that series responded with shock and disgust: Franklin was never meant to promote bloodshed.


But who even cares whether it was Pete Hegseth or a different admiral or an anthropomorphic turtle who fired on the boats and then blasted the survivors into pieces? The story itself is unclear: First, it seemed like Hegseth himself had made the call. Then the Pentagon distanced itself from what happened entirely. Then the White House doubled down on it all, calling the two strikes legal as claims of extrajudicial killings gathered momentum. And then, at today’s Cabinet meeting, the reason why nothing would be publicly divulged or investigated had morphed again.

In it, Hegseth, speaking bizarrely fast, delivered a rapid-fire list of sycophancy about Trump (Ukraine is a war that “never would have started under President Trump,” Biden was the worst president ever, “DEI and political correctness” has been “ripped out” under Trump’s orders, and so on, and so on), before pivoting to “the narco-terrorists.”

 

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Or — or! There is another alternative. If you’re War Daddy Pete Hegseth, you take to social media and post a doctored cover of Franklin the Turtle — yes, the picture-book turtle who teaches kids manners and friendship — reimagined brandishing a bazooka, targeting “narco-terrorists.” And you write in the caption: “For your Christmas wish list.”

The publisher of that series responded with shock and disgust: Franklin was never meant to promote bloodshed.


But who even cares whether it was Pete Hegseth or a different admiral or an anthropomorphic turtle who fired on the boats and then blasted the survivors into pieces? The story itself is unclear: First, it seemed like Hegseth himself had made the call. Then the Pentagon distanced itself from what happened entirely. Then the White House doubled down on it all, calling the two strikes legal as claims of extrajudicial killings gathered momentum. And then, at today’s Cabinet meeting, the reason why nothing would be publicly divulged or investigated had morphed again.

In it, Hegseth, speaking bizarrely fast, delivered a rapid-fire list of sycophancy about Trump (Ukraine is a war that “never would have started under President Trump,” Biden was the worst president ever, “DEI and political correctness” has been “ripped out” under Trump’s orders, and so on, and so on), before pivoting to “the narco-terrorists.”

I hope the publisher sues Hegseth.