Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is reportedly the first Trump cabinet member set to be fired, as sources say the president has lost confidence in him.
  • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
    111·
    4 天前

    The warning shot came from The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief David Gardner, who says the Pentagon boss’s tenure is on life support after months of missteps, messy leaks, and a media meltdown that has the press corps bolting from the building.

    No one could have foreseen this kind of behavior from a raging alcoholic!

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    37·
    4 天前

    This whole thing is based on one guy’s speculation. Hegseth isn’t going anywhere. Trump only wants one thing from Hegseth: to give the order to fire on American citizens, if and when the time arrives, and Trump knows Hegseth will do it. He doesn’t care about any of the rest of it.

  • criss_cross@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 天前

    I will believe it when I see him gone.

    Dude has survived so many colossal fuck ups that I’m convinced he’s staying forever

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      37·
      4 天前

      This. He’s already dug through the bottom of the barrel. And started scraping the bottom of hell.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      23·
      4 天前

      “We’re totally against DEI hires, we demand that MERIT determine who gets chosen for a position. That’s why it is my great pleasure to announce Barron Trump will be Hesgeths replacement at the Department of War.”

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    45·
    4 天前

    “Damn it Hegseth, I thought you said we could convince the military to shoot the American citizens I don’t like…I mean…antifa.”

    “I was sure calling them fat would work sir…”

    “You’re fired Hegseth! Now…who can I get that will be able to convince the military to shoot their own friends and families…can’t be that hard.”

      • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
        9·
        4 天前

        Pete Hegseth, nominated by President Donald Trump for Secretary of Defense, is undergoing increased examination concerning his previous actions following the reappearance of a video from Fox News’ All American New Year Live in 2023. In the footage, Hegseth, 44, is shown sipping champagne straight from the bottle and submerging himself in a tank allegedlyfilled with alcohol during the live transmission from Nashville.

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      23·
      4 天前

      With Trump any apparent step forward inevitably turns out to be ten steps back.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if literally Kid Rock was named and confirmed as the next Secretary of Defen- sorry, let me put on my 12-year-old edgelord voice- “War.”

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        7·
        4 天前

        Nah, they’re gonna find someone who’s not skittish about just ordering the deaths of civilians without needing pep rallies and getting rid of oversight.

        Stephen Miller comes to mind.

        • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 天前

          Yeah, the young Crypt Keeper might be up for it… As long as no one writes any dissenting opinions in chalk anywhere near him.

        • SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 天前

          I think he’s too busy moving. Those sidewalk chalk terrorists are public enemy #1. He will stop at nothing to leave his secured gated community where nasty, nasty, people openly criticize public officials.

      • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 天前

        Secretary of Bawitdaba-da-bang-da-bang-diggy-diggy-diggy. His appointment would be in line with the U.S. slide into Idiocracy, and it’s terrifying that the rational part of my brain can’t rule out his future appointment.

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
        3·
        4 天前

        Too skinny. They need someone who can make the Trump administration proud during the upcoming WWE tournaments in the White House.

        • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          4 天前

          We know what Trump values. They need someone who is a good fighter, photogenic, and knows something about International Relations…

          Gentlemen, let me introduce you to your next SECDEF, Steven Seagal!

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    26·
    4 天前

    I doubt that he’s being fired for incompetence. For one, he was clearly never hired for competence. He was hired for being a familiar face and a sycophant like all the others. For another, he’s far from the only incompetent and embarassing cabinet member in the regime. I think Pete got a bit too big for his britches for Trump. He’s the only one in the administration that I think could actually get a fair amount of the MAGA cult to follow him personally after Trump’s demise and would have been in a prime position to attempt a coup on Vance if and when that happens. Trump likely doesnt give a shit what happens after he’s bounced from this plane of existence, but he might see Hegseth as a threat sooner rather than later.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      3 天前

      We are at the point where trying to look at things through the lens of competence vs. incompetence is just the wrong paradigm

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
      4·
      4 天前

      The article actually specifies it’s regarding the major cabinet positions and that supposedly they were supposed to actually get a full year in position before he would start firing them, as opposed to his first term.

      • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
        2·
        4 天前

        I would have thought the first to go were the three he nominated… but regardless you would think that when your hire someone, especially for such a position, that they stick around for more than a year huh

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 天前

    Just have him and RFK switch places. Imagine Hegseth selling protein powder and RFK rambling about the sperm of soldiers.