A former Fox News host and a convicted felon who received five military deferments during the Vietnam War called about 800 U.S. military leaders from around the globe to a mandatory Sept. 30 meeting in Virginia then proceeded to call them fat and threaten them with demotions, forced them to listen to criticism of a past president and a sitting governor, and told them they would begin using American cities as military “training grounds.”
This wildly expensive meeting-that-could-have-been-an-email came hours before the government is expected to shut down and presented an opportunity for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ‒ the former TV host who earlier this year shared classified military battle plans in a group text that included a magazine editor ‒ and President Donald Trump ‒ the bone-spurred war-avoider ‒ to show the world that they are small, insecure and, frankly, not that bright.
“I'm very careful when I walk down stairs, like I'm on stairs ... I walk very slowly,” Trump told the nation’s top military brass, for no discernible reason whatsoever. “Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well.”
Trump told the gathering that he has seen the enemy, and it is us: “We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out.”
