Staff are also reportedly annoyed by his installation of a makeup studio at Defense headquarters and his insistence on snapping workout pics alongside troops.
This was so funny I had to double-check the linked article: yes, this part is also real.
For as much as trump used to say “straight out of central casting” that really is how he fills important spots.
It’s all about the optics, because he doesn’t understand what the jobs actually are.
So for Hegsworth, he needs to constantly look “camera ready” he’s getting TV grade makeup every day, likely a couple touchups too. Because Trump knows him from Faux news, and that’s how he expects him to look.
Then the “workout pics” are almost assuredly being shown to trump and without a hint of irony being told “here’s Pete “working” with the troops” and in Trump’s mind that’s what his job is.
So…
If they actually got rid of those two things, it will make it more likely trump gets rid of Pete. Because it’s destroying the image that Pete was picked for.
Polygraphs don’t really work anyway. We have bigger fish to fry - like the pedo rapist
I was about to whine about the fact that no judge or official could really tell Hegseth what to do, then I read the article:
In April, Hegseth’s Trump-loyalist advisor, Patrick Weaver, took offense to the suggestion that he should have to submit to testing being carried out on those close to the Defense secretary. An ally of President Donald Trump and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Weaver’s complaint resulted in a phone call from the White House to Hegseth’s team telling them to knock it off.
Ah, he’s going after other Trumpers, that’s why. The ouroboros may be starting to eat itself…
Polygraph? You mean that pseudo science machine that is accurate 50% of the time?
Yeah, the machines that measure stress, not lying.
Stupid fascist prick. I thought we were bringing the “efficiency” and “professionalism” of corporate America to the White House. Imagine your boss acting like this.
How many lie detectors do you think they burned out before realizing you had to put Hegseth in a shielded room on the other side of the building first?
Alcoholics gonna alco
So are we just gonna go with binge drinking initiation then huh?
Stalin style lie detection.
Besides the extra curricular?
They’ll just use it to turn kids into skeletons.
