hahaha i clicked on this knowing it would be absolute rubbish...and it didn't let me down.
Seriously, how do you get yourself to post stuff like this?
hahaha i clicked on this knowing it would be absolute rubbish...and it didn't let me down.
Seriously, how do you get yourself to post stuff like this?
By reading the garbage in the first place I guess….read the WSJ you will find plenty of anti Trump material, but written by adults.
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US president again lays responsibility for key decisions about Middle East conflict at feet of his defence secretary
At times Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, has seemed out of step with Donald Trump the US president
At times Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, has seemed out of step with Donald Trump, the US president Credit: Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla
Donald Trump said Pete Hegseth didn’t want the war to end, as the US president appeared to be manoeuvring to find a fall guy for the war on Iran.
For the second day in a row, Mr Trump laid key decisions about the war at the feet of his defence secretary, claiming that he and another of his top military officials were “disappointed” when he told them the conflict could end soon.
“Pete didn’t want [the war] to be settled,” the US president said during a press conference in the Oval Office.
On Monday, he said that Mr Hegseth had been the “first one” to suggest attacking Iran when he consulted senior administration figures about “a problem in the Middle East”.
“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said, ‘Let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon’,” Mr Trump said at an event in Tennessee he attended alongside Mr Hegseth.
‘Penchant for performance art’
Mr Hegseth is seen as a self-promoter with a “penchant for performance art”, one of his former press secretaries, John Ullyot, told The Telegraph recently. He has given his full-throated support for the war, threatening to rain down “death and destruction from the sky” and claimed the US was “crushing the enemy”.
At times, however, he has also seemed out of step with the president on the conflict. Just hours after the defence secretary appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes on March 8 and declared the war was “just beginning”, Mr Trump said it could end “very soon”.
During the Tuesday afternoon Oval Office session alongside Mr Hegseth, in which Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter and senator, was confirmed to replace Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, Mr Trump made a number of other claims.
During the session in the Oval Office Mr Trump confirmed Markwayne Mullin as the new US homeland secretary
During the session in the Oval Office Mr Trump confirmed Markwayne Mullin as the new US homeland secretary Credit: Jim Watson/AFP
Iran had given the US a “big gift”, Mr Trump said. “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money. And I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize,” Mr Trump claimed.
He also said that the US had “won the war” and achieved regime change.
“I don’t like to say this. We’ve won this with this,” the president told reporters. “The war has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.”
‘Possible Trump is setting him up’
Even before Mr Trump’s comments this week, insiders had suggested to The Telegraph that Mr Hegseth could be in the firing line if the public soured on the war.
“It’s very possible that president Trump is setting him up,” a former Trump White House official said earlier this month.
A Pentagon source told The Telegraph that Mr Hegseth could soak up criticism of the war by “looking so over the top and out of the loop with what president Trump really thinks”.
On March 5, Mr Trump fired Ms Noem, his homeland security secretary, after a disastrous immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis led to two American citizens being shot dead by federal agents.
The president attempted to distance himself from the controversy, contradicting claims made by Ms Noem and others in the administration that one of those killed was a “domestic terrorist”.
When she later claimed that Mr Trump had signed off on an extravagant advertising campaign featuring her riding a horse through the mountains, he was reportedly outraged both at the self-promotion and the claim he had approved it.