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It Takes More Than A Red, White and Blue Pocket Square to Run The Pentagon

Trump-Vance Empowered The Most Dangerously Unqualified Defense Secretary In US History

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Joshua Powell
Apr 22, 2025
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The Trump-Vance administration's catastrophic decision to install Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon represents a new nadir in governmental malpractice. By elevating an unqualified Fox News personality with disturbing personal history to control America's military, Trump has demonstrated his fundamental contempt for national security and constitutional governance.

Trump himself bears primary responsibility for this travesty. His deliberate selection of Hegseth—a television personality with blind loyalty—reveals a president pathologically incapable of prioritizing America's security interests over his own ego and need for sycophants. Trump's willingness to entrust our nuclear arsenal to someone with documented sexual assault allegations and concerning alcohol issues demonstrates his complete abdication of the most sacred presidential duty: protecting American security.

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