He’s making a video
The Daily Beast confirms that this is a very expensive and wasteful photo op for Whiskey Pete:
Hegseth, a former Fox News host, last week called U.S. generals stationed around the world to Quantico, Va. The highly-unusual order, which will cost the U.S. millions of dollars to bring the generals to the U.S. on short notice, sparked concerns that the U.S. was on the brink of a major military conflict. However, insider reports indicate that the meeting is essentially a photo-op.
Hegseth plans to video himself giving a speech on “warrior ethos” to the generals, because “the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint,” an insider told CNN.
Of course. But now Trump is stealing his thunder:
President Trump is gearing up to hold court at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s all-hands military meeting Tuesday.
The 79-year-old president’s appearance, first reported by Axios, adds much more scrutiny—and security presence–to what was already a controversial and expensive meeting.
He wasn’t going to allow Pete to have that big beautiful photo op with all that gold salad all to himself. No way.