For once, Pete Hegseth seems in a good mood. Since the inauguration, barely a week has passed without him being wrapped up in some embarrassing blunder, and though Trump is gritting his teeth and praising him in public, you can bet he’s getting chewed out behind those closed Oval Office doors.
His big achievement of the moment is that he’s “proudly ENDED” the Women, Peace and Security Program, which he claims is “woke”, “divisive” and “social justice”. “GOOD RIDDANCE”, apparently. Well, uh, Pete ol’ buddy, you might want to squeeze that cork back into the champagne bottle (assuming there’s anything left in there), because you just ended one of the most lauded acts of… uh, Donald Trump.
This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the @DeptofDefense.
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) April 29, 2025
WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING.
WPS is a UNITED…
Yup, as unlikely as it sounds, the Women, Peace and Security Act was a rare jewel in the crown of the first Trump administration and sailed through with “significant Trump support. A month ago Marco Rubio even held this up as “a bill I was very proud to have been a co-sponsor of when I was in the Senate”. Kristi Noem even co-authored it, and Mike Waltz helped it become law!
Hegseth seems to be under the mistaken belief that this was a “Biden initiative”, indicating that he merely read the name of the Act, assumed it was lib stuff, and brought the hammer down on it. What’s coming next will now be a familiar routine for Hegseth: doubtless he’ll be summoned to the White House and get yelled at by a furious Trump, all the more angry because he knows he can’t fire this buffoon without the liberal media crowing they’ve claimed a major scalp.
Most in Washington assume Hegseth is a dead man walking, that Trump is already figuring out his replacement, and is merely waiting for an opportune time to jettison this dead wood with a minimum of bad press. But until then, the United States defense is in the shaky hands of a man who doesn’t seem to know the meaning of official secrets, who leaks like a sieve, and who his former Fox News colleagues apparently had to “babysit” when he was day drunk.
I have no doubt his Trump-appointed successor will be someone just as awful, but perhaps we could at least hope for someone who doesn’t spend each day stumbling from one calamity to another.
Published: Apr 30, 2025 09:27 am