Defense secretaryās speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as āegotisticalā and ādangerousā
Naveed Shah, a veteran and activist who served as an enlisted public affairs specialist ā an army journalist ā uncharacteristically found himself searching for words to describe the address of the newly styled secretary of war to flag officers on Tuesday.
āA lot of the words that are coming to me arenāt fit to print,ā said Shah, policy director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy organization. āThe people in that room who have served for 20, 30-plus years in uniform do not need Pete Hegseth to tell them about warrior ethos.ā
Hegsethās hour-long Ted talk-style address touching on physical fitness, the doctrine of lethality and the perils of DEI certainly drew more attention than a policy memo might have, and perhaps more than Donald Trumpās rambling, politically charged hour-long speech that followed.
I think their lack of applause and total silence speaks volumes.
Trump even commented that it was the quietest room heād ever been in. Someone laughed. Trump told them not to laugh and that if they didnāt agree they could leave and lose their rank.
I think it went absolutely terribly for them.
Hereās hoping.
He really said that to the person who laughed? I mean, I should not be surprised.
Yeah Iām not on Twitter or any of the kicroblog sites where all the clips seems to be, but this YouTuber did a video on the event which shows a couple such clips.
3:10 Hegseth gets no applause when he clearly expected it
4:36 trump gets laughed at.
Absurd times, man. Wow.