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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun May 24, 2026, 08:17 PM Sunday

Trump Tears Into Hegseth for Targeting Wrong Country [View all]

Pete Hegseth apparently created a huge mess for Donald Trump in his rush to keep the 79-year-old president happy.

Insiders have revealed that the defense secretary’s abrupt maneuver to cancel the deployment of U.S. troops to Poland triggered an angry phone call from Trump, who was forced to explain that Poland was not one of the European allies that had earned his wrath.

Hegseth, 45, blindsided officials on both sides of the Atlantic last week when he canceled the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland at the eleventh hour. The decision stirred confusion within the Pentagon and quickly sparked a firestorm of criticism from American lawmakers and European allies.

Even the president was stumped by the move, a current and a former U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tears-hegseth-targeting-wrong-192111961.html

Between Hegseth's alcoholism and Trump's dementia we're doomed.

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Fucking clowns dalton99a Sunday #1
What do you expect from a malaise Sunday #2
Don't forget Patel's alcoholism!! vapor2 Sunday #3
Gott im Himmel... GopherGal Sunday #4
God I want these fucking idiots out of my government now! Initech Sunday #5
This looks like a headline from The Onion, but it's not. subterranean Sunday #6
or if his wife had anything to do with it Skittles Sunday #19
I hope they're "Doomed". nt Cha Sunday #7
so fire him. otherwise he must not really be that upset......... Takket Sunday #8
Ruh Roh Reroy duckworth969 Sunday #9
One quart short of a fifth. erronis Sunday #10
A cynical person might wonder whether an extraordinary number of feckless fuckwits had escaped struggle4progress Sunday #11
aka "Wall Street" orthoclad Sunday #20
Throw in the abject stupidity of the two...... lastlib Sunday #12
Hey, Petey---this one's for you! lastlib Sunday #13
Trump hired him from FOX News, what did he expect? "I only hire the best people." An idiot hiring idiots. surfered Sunday #14
The inmates are running the asylum. mtngirl47 Sunday #15
Oopsie. tavernier Sunday #16
They're just a bunch of jerk offs who think they're playing Risk. LudwigPastorius Sunday #17
How are these incompetent fucksticks not run out by the entire armed forces? Blue Owl Sunday #18
add... SleeplessinSoCal Sunday #21
Don't forget Kennedy's role in HHS ybbor Sunday #22
Hey, for all we know, Trump may have told Petie to do exactly that and then forgot that Marie Marie Sunday #23
Believe it or not, the only thing really saving us GenThePerservering Sunday #24
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