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Trump's war is unpopular, so he's found the perfect scapegoat | Opinion
For every decision President Donald Trump makes, some nearby patsy invariably gets blamed when that decision goes south. Trump throws people under the bus so often that there’s not a single bloodless bus undercarriage left in Washington, DC.
Knowing that, I think Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host cosplaying as a U.S. Defense secretary, might want to don his nicest bus-exhaust-pipe-viewing suit and prepare to get tossed.
On March 23, Trump was speaking about the Iran war – the one he says is going great even though it’s not going great – and he referenced Hegseth, slyly detailing a new version of how the whole thing started: “Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. And you said, ‘Let’s do it.’ Because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”
I’ll pause here so you can have a good, long laugh.
Ready?
OK, so this is a classic Trump pivot seen whenever he knows something is making him look bad. He casually shifts the blame to someone else, because if there’s one value Trump holds dear, it’s that he can never, ever, ever be wrong about anything.
As the Iran fiasco worsens, you can predict a future Trump quote along the lines of: “Well, you know, Pete said ‘Let’s do it,’ and I wasn’t entirely sure, I just want peace. You know I’ve ended all wars.
"But we went ahead. And now it looks like I was given some bad information. And truthfully, I never trusted Pete, which is why he stepped down. Very untrustworthy guy. I’m not sure who hired him in the first place. Total loser.” {emphasis added]
You know it’s coming, Pete. You know it’s your head in Trump’s protect-himself-at-all-costs guillotine.
Just ask Rudy Giuliani, or Michael Cohen, or retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, or Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, or former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, or former National Security Adviser John Bolton. The list goes on, like a line of buses stretched from coast to coast.
Trump always turns on people. Always.
When Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned recently in protest of the Iran war, Trump – who appointed Kent – turned around and said the intelligence officer was "not smart" and “very weak on security.”
This is your future, Pete Hegseth. You've been given a heads-up.
And Trump claims he doesn't know who hired Hegseth in the first place?! Absolutely hilarious!
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
