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a different meme. And they just had him talking like a clown basically. But so that became one of the big stories. And when he complained, he complained and said it was deeply racist because they put a Mexican hat on him. What does Trump do? He sends around another meme with yet another Mexican hat on Hakeem Jeffries except it's even funnier. And then people complained and what does Trump do? He…

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of course. And Trump apparently had some Trump 2028 hats prominently displayed on the Oval Office desk. So all the cameras would make it look like Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer had to look at them. There was a story that he gave them the hats, but that didn't happen. I don't think it happened.

Well, you may have seen the Pete Hegseth clips and the meeting of the generals and admirals. Now we're told that the reason that they were collected there is for the purpose of what they were told by their secretary of war Pete Hegseth and later also by Trump. But I'd like to inject my own conspiracy theory into the mix. Okay. Imagine if you will that the US was preparing for some major military action, maybe against the Venezuelan cartels, maybe against something else.

Now, would the world know what we were planning if the only people who got invited were the most directly involved with whatever that military action would be? Because there are different leaders for different parts of the world, different theaters, right? So if you only invited in all the leaders from one theater, then people would say, "Oh shoot, something's going to happen over there and then maybe they could prepare for it and we wouldn't want that to happen, especially if we decide not to do it." You know, you don't want to cause a whole thing.

So is it possible that although there were genuine reasons to have the meeting that we saw that maybe it was the only way they could disguise that they were planning some action against one part of the world and they didn't want to signal which part it was. And I ask you do you think that our military communications are sufficient that if we just said, "Well, you don't all have to come here. We'll just send you this top secret, encrypted, double encrypted, triple encrypted, military encrypted thing, and everything will be fine." But we all know that stuff leaks, you know, and we could suspect that maybe some adversaries have access to it.

The only thing you could really do is bring in the top people and put them in a secure room like a SCIF and just say, "All right, guys. Yeah, don't tell anybody yet, but make sure you guys are operationally ready for some action that's coming." All right, if they didn't do that and yet they are also planning a military action, well, they did something wrong because that's the way they should have done it. They should have disguised it as an all hands meeting and then secretly pulled off the subset of people when nobody's watching and say, "All right, you guys, you 20 people come this way." That's what I think. Anyway, we'll see.

But the things that Hegseth mentioned I kind of liked. I liked it a lot actually. He was telling the generals and the admirals that the military is going to get rid of wokeness. No dudes in dresses, no fatties in the military, including the generals in the hallway. No more emphasis on climate change. Only emphasis on lethality and effectiveness and professionalism basically. I like it. And Trump mentioned getting rid of political correctness in the military. He says the purpose of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic. Correct.

I would say that I was skep

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tical about the value of this all hands meeting, but I'm not now. I thought Hegseth did a stellar job. I thought he did a really good job. He got rid of the beards and the beardos. He called them the beardos. So anyway, good job Pete Hegseth. Then the president spoke and I'm going to echo something I believe Steve Bannon noticed too. Trump looked dangerously tired yesterday in at least two differ…

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