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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSEC DOD Pete Hegseth: "Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore."
Have you notices that most posts coming out of the WH--have Trump usually just
sitting behind the Oval Office desk and others surrounding him yapping???
SEC DOD Pete Hegseth: Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore. @Acyn
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SEC DOD Pete Hegseth: "Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore." (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2025
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"Hegseth is the laughingstock of DOD. EVERYONE in that building knows that if they released classified information
riversedge
May 2025
#6
Under the previous administration, everyone on the Trump team did look like fools.
tanyev
May 2025
#9
I dunno, Pete. Nothing says "looks like a fool" more than very obviously being a lapdog.
JHB
May 2025
#14
Marthe48
(22,628 posts)1. Who is he trying to kid?
n/t
riversedge
(79,177 posts)7. Himself!!
brush
(61,033 posts)8. Yeah, he was a nobody in trump 1.0. Was he even a FOX weekend anchor by then?
surfered
(11,104 posts)2. The opposite, I think.
onethatcares
(16,955 posts)3. when he opens his yap
he removes all doubt he's not a fool.
Ocelot II
(128,827 posts)4. Fools? If they looked like fools that would be a promotion.
Kegbreath has a long upward climb to make it to the level of fool.
Ritabert
(1,931 posts)5. Bwa ha ha. I seem to remember sleeping well at night when Biden was Prez.
Those days are gone.
riversedge
(79,177 posts)6. "Hegseth is the laughingstock of DOD. EVERYONE in that building knows that if they released classified information
Hegseth is the laughingstock of DOD. EVERYONE in that building knows that if they released classified information on Signal, they'd be sitting in a jail cell right now.
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tanyev
(48,578 posts)9. Under the previous administration, everyone on the Trump team did look like fools.
Now they are PROVING they are fools.
Walleye
(43,698 posts)10. What fools these Magas be
Omnipresent
(7,299 posts)11. Everyone knows that they are the biggest fools of any administration!
hatrack
(64,176 posts)12. Yes, now we look like drooling, inbred idiots . . .
Well done, Sec. Kegbreath.
riversedge
(79,177 posts)13. Somebody is tired..........
JHB
(37,898 posts)14. I dunno, Pete. Nothing says "looks like a fool" more than very obviously being a lapdog.
Wingus Dingus
(9,173 posts)15. "NOt aNYmore!"
Sneederbunk
(17,202 posts)16. Whiskey Pete is a fool.
Beausoleil
(3,008 posts)17. He's right. We look like arrogant idiots now.
Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)18. Remember when the Biden Admin
accidentally invited a reporter into a classified group chat on a non-secure network and discussed highly sensitive war plans for an imminent operation?
Oh, wait......
OLDMDDEM
(3,010 posts)19. Pete and Dumpy are idiots.
appmanga
(1,376 posts)20. Methinks Ol' Whiskeyleaks needs a second opinion. (nt)
Ping Tung
(4,121 posts)21. Yes, you did look like fools then. Now you look like foolish traitors making foolish statements.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
Clouds Passing
(6,835 posts)22. Drunks ALWAYS look like fools, peedey.
struggle4progress
(125,314 posts)23. "We looked like fools. Now we SignalChat and remove all doubt"