Hegseth’s Meeting with Generals Falls Flat

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to top generals was supposed to serve as a rallying cry for military exceptionalism — but it didn’t land that way with many of the people it was targeting,” Politico reports.

“Numerous defense officials — who watched senior brass scramble to Washington and then sit through a partisan speech from President Donald Trump and a return to old-school military standards by Hegseth — were left wondering why the event had occurred at all.”

Said one defense official: “More like a press conference than briefing the generals… Could have been an email.”