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The top officer of the United States army, fired. The top leader of the United States Navy, fired. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, fired, fired, fired, fired. The leader of Southcom in the Caribbean, fired and forced out. You have Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, conducting a massive purge of our military over the past 14 months. You've had generals, admirals, and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, other top military officers purged or resigned. And some of our top talent is gone when we need them the most. And I think back to an interview that I did with Ben Hodges, who was the army commander of Europe for the United States, and he told me his big break with Donald Trump and him becoming an outspoken guy against the Trump regime. When he heard Donald Trump talk about my generals, my admirals, it's the language and my opinion of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. And these types of purges that we're seeing now are the types of purges that we saw that would be conducted by Hitler and Mussolini of their top military leaders. I mean, let's just take a look at what happened in the past 24 hours. United States Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired. He was fired by Hegseth, who doesn't actually have the authority to fire because he's Senate confirmed president appointed position. Trump had to be the one who actually did the firing. So Hegset said, I'm firing you. Phelan said, I don't believe you fired me. And Phelan actually goes to the White House to confront Donald Trump. It's the story that CNN and others are reporting. And Donald Trump said, yeah, you're not building my ships good enough. I wanted those ships built quicker. And you may recall that Donald Trump wanted a group of ships called the Trump battleships. I kid you not. And Trump doesn't like the aircraft carriers or stealth ships or modern ships because Donald Trump thinks they're not aesthetically pleasing. And he goes, I'm an aesthetic gu. I want those battleships we used during World War I those big, big battleships. Trump would say, I want to call them the Trump battleships. And he said that Phelan wasn't building the battleships quick enough. So while we have a naval blockade in the Persian Gulf right now, which is the main barrier to reaching negotiations or having negotiations with Iran, we fire the Navy secretary. I mean, look, John Phelan was a weird person to have this job in the first place, but who isn't in the Trump regime? The guy's never been in the Navy, never been in military. He's a private equity guy who's just a Republican donor. But he's fired by Hegseth and Trump because he wasn't building the Trump battleships quick enough. Right. And then what, a week and a half ago or two weeks ago or so, you had Sean Parnell, he's the spokesperson at the Pentagon. The same way he announced the termination of Phelan. Two weeks ago, he announced the termination of Randy George, that's the army chief of staff, which is, you know, he's a four star general. I mean, he's the top guy in the United States Army. General Randy George, the top position in the Army. He's the chief of staff. And as Dan Lamuth, who's a foreign policy and reporter for Washington Post says, this move is a surprise to many relatively senior army officials and also comes close to nearly a complete remake of the joined Chiefs. Since Hegseth took office, he basically fired everyone who's on the Joint Chiefs, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And in addition to Phelan, in addition to Randy George, the general, the Army Chief of staff, Defense Secretary Hegseth also fired this guy named David Hodeney, a former Army Ranger who led the Army Transformation and Training Command. Major General William Greene Jr. Who's the chief of the Army's Chaplain Corps. And Hegseth and his team are now looking like they're going to try to fire Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll because Hegseth is very jealous of this Driscoll guy who's like Vance's buddy. And Hegseth wants to see that guy gone. Now. This follows Admiral Alvin Holsey, who led southcom. He stepped down. He was the southcom chief, meaning he is the top person, the top command of Southcom. You don't just resign, but he was asked to leave by Hegseth. And Hosley was ob to Hegseth's war crimes in the Caribbean where the United States military just blows up fishing boats that are off the coast of Venezuela and As Zachary Cohen from CNN explains, tensions were simmering between Hegseth and Halsey for weeks. Hegseth did not believe Halsey was moving quickly, aggressive enough to blow up the fishing boats in the Caribbean, and he wanted more people to die. He had this bloodlust. He wanted to see more people dead. And Halsey said, look, these are war crimes we can't do. It should be noted that in 1938-1912, Adolf Hitler systematically downgraded Germany's military command structure, sidelined independent generals, abolished the war Ministry, and then concentrated control under his command. He had like a Hegseth type sycophant, ultimately making himself the supreme commander, a deliberate centralization of military power in his hands.
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By the way, this is why I said if you look at Trump building the ballroom and the bunker underneath. Trump's not planning on leaving, right? Trump is planning on using the military, in my opinion, after the term ends in order to try to stay in power. And he's trying to figure out how to do that now while his approval is 33% and 30% on the economy, as Dan Lamuth previously wrote. According to an exclusive report published by the Washington Post. This was several months back, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Kaine, along with other senior officials at the Pentagon, were preparing a major plan to present to Hegseth, which would basically downgrade several of the U.S. armed forces unified Combatant Commands. And they shift in the balance of power among its top generals as part of a consolidation that Hegseth wanted. If adopted, the plan would usher in some of the most significant changes at the military's highest ranks in decades, which would include reducing in prominence the headquarters of centcom, European com, eucom, US African Command Africa, by placing them under the control of a new organization called US International Command Intercom. In addition, the plan calls for realigning southcom and US Northern com, which oversees operations throughout the Western Hemisphere under a combatant command known as America. That's something they're still working on right now. And basically all of this would be controlled by Donald Trump, the way Hitler centralized these command structures. As Amy Siskin also writes, our military, right, Even now, the military sees what Trump's doing. And that's why this was in the Wall Street Journal article recently. She's reposting the Wall Street Journal article that we, that we've been talking about a while now, where you have military leaders trying to keep Donald Trump out of the Situation Room. He's just so erratic. He's so erratic. He wants to play war and dress up, and he wants to show how tough he's erratic. He gets scared. And it's really becoming deeply, deeply problematic. And it should be noted that even some of the generals that Trump's kept the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Kaine, by the way, he had to get a waiver to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs because he didn't have the rank to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. But Donald Trump liked his name. Raisin Cain. Raisin Cain. I'm going to make him my guy right out of central casting. But even Kaine, before the war in Iran started or Trump's unlawful war in Iran started, he warned Donald Trump that an attack on Iran would be very problematic, that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz attack. Its neighbors and that the US Would fall, was lacking some of the critical munitions, and we would not get the support from our allies, and it would become a quagmire. And yes, they were absolutely right. So as Shanaka Pereira explains, 26 Generals and Admirals and 14 months, no misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command, Pete Hegseth has removed the Joint Chiefs chairman, the army chief of staff, the command, the commander of army transportation and training, the chief chaplains, the head of Southcom, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He also blocked four army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two black men and two women, because he didn't want to promote black men or women by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself and then fired Randy George, who wanted to keep those individuals on the promotion list. Now he's trying to fire Dan Driscoll as well. And this is, this is what Hegseth is doing. I want to share with you right now that clip I told you about. And this is Ben Hodges right here. Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. This is what he told me back in 2024. This is what he told me in 2024. So you can hear for yourself. And this was January. This is before the election. And, you know, he and I were having these types of conversations here, play this clip.
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Ben Hodges
The thing that really pushed me over the edge on Mr. Trump was when I heard him talking about my generals and my judges, as if we were some third world country that the judges and generals and other authorities all owed their fealty to whoever the dictator was. And I just can't imagine that the founding fathers intended that, you know, the president would have this kind of personal control over generals. But that's obviously how Mr. Trump thinks, and it's reprehensible, you know.
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And then recently, he talked about how the United States, having gotten rid of all of this great talent, all these top generals, like, our strategy is so outdated. Like, we have all these weapon systems, whether it's the Patriot or the Thaad system, systems that cost hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars, and each missile that's used as air defense costs millions of dollars, sometimes tens of millions of dollars. And Iran's drones are like, the shahed drones are like $20,000. And those FPV drones that they do, the drone swarms are even cheaper than that. And so we're using million dollar missiles in order to stop $20,000 drones. And just think if Iran sends decoys that aren't even armed, they can make them even cheaper. And so we're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars which we have, deplete our entire stockpile of missiles, trying to shoot down $20,000 Shahed drones that the Iranians are able to rebuild very, very quickly. Here's what Hodges says. Play this clip.
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Ben Hodges
And then of course, we're watching with our own two eyes what's happening in the, in the Gulf region and how effective Iranian drones still are. And that here we are still launching Patriot against Shaheds versus and then the President couldn't even be poised enough to say, you know, maybe Zelensky does have some cards and let's, let's accept his offer to help instead of saying, no, we have the best drones already. I mean, that. That is not helpful.
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And then you remember there was that moment where Democratic Congresswoman Madeline Dean confronted MAGA Mike Johnson. This is a while ago. This was back in October of 2025. And she confronted MAGA Mike and she's like, the President is unhinged. This is already in 2025. He's unwell. And Mike's like, a lot of folks on your side are unwell. She's like, did you see what he said to the generals? Did you see what went down when he spoke in front of all those generals? Here, let's play this clip.
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Donald Trump
The President is unhinged. He is unwell. What are you doing on your side? Are too.
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Commentator
I don't control.
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Donald Trump
Oh, my God, please. That performance in front of the generals that I didn't see it so dangerous. You know, I serve on foreign affairs and appropriations. It's the collision of those two things. Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. I just left. You have a president who. You have a president who is unwell.
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Commentator
And what she was referring to was that an event when he, when Hegseth ordered all of the generals and admirals to go to Quantico where he like berated them. Right. He wants it to be an eyeball to eyeball kind of conversation. Dan Lamuth reported at the time. And he did it to basically say, if you don't follow everything I do, get the hell out of here. I don't want you to be a general. And Hexit's an idiot. Hexit doesn't know what he's doing. And that's how they've crippled our great military right now. And so Here was Donald Trump talking about when he was going to meet with the military, how he'll be meeting with the generals. You can play this clip this time.
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Donald Trump
So I'm going over, I'm going to be meeting, going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders. And if I don't like somebody, I'm going to fire them right on the spot.
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Commentator
Here's what he said in the Oval Office before that meeting back in October of 2025. Let's play it.
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Donald Trump
One thing they're concerned about, I mean, look, Republicans have total control of Washington. You guys have control of the House, the Senate. Well, when you say control. So we need 60 votes for this and we have 53 Republicans. Republicans. So we need seven Democrats. And those seven Democrats and others are asking for an extension of a tax credit on people who get the Affordable Care act and some other government backed health care. So are you willing? Well, what they're really asking for is they want to pay for illegal aliens that have come into our country by the millions and get onto the rolls and they want to pay and our people don't want to do that. Our people are taxed enough. You know, we just approved the largest tax decrease ever in the history of our country, including the extension of the previous Trump, you know, Trump tax cuts, the tax cuts that we just approved. They want to use those tax cuts to give the money to illegal aliens. People that came into our country illegally and that are leaving the country. You know, there's been a self deportation because of what we've been doing. That's been incredible.
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Commentator
Here was an interaction with vans. Let's play it.
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Donald Trump
Isn't it nice that people are coming from all over the world to be with us. It's not particularly unusual that generals who
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Commentator
report to the Secretary of War and then to the President, United States are coming to speak with the Secretary of War. It's actually not unusual at all. And I think it's odd that you guys have made it into such a big story.
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Donald Trump
Is it a big story? I mean, I don't think it is, sir. I would think it's. No, but isn't it a good story? I mean, you know, we're respected from, from all over the world as a military force. You know, I rebuilt the military during my first term even though we gave a chunk of it away to Afghanistan. But we're talking Afghanistan too, by the way, about Bagram and about that. But that's a very small amount compared to what we rebuilt it by.
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Commentator
And here's what Donald Trump had previously said about the military is bad. Our generals do such a bad job, they should be fired during the election. I mean, this is what he was running on, that our generals are bad, our military is bad. We had the strongest military in the world die. Donald Trump. It's like, they're bad. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
You know, why wouldn't they want to have a strong order? Why wouldn't they want to have good elections? Why wouldn't they want to have good schooling? Good. You know, so many different things. The military is bad. We have generals that do such a bad job, they never get fired. I mean, they should have been fired.
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Commentator
And finally with John Phelan being fired by Hegseth and that whole scene where Phelan runs to the White House and he's like, Donald, did you really fire me? And Trump's like, yeah, you're not building the battleships quick enough. Do you remember the press conference that Trump and Phelan had right when they were talking about battleships and building Trump class battleships and that's what really Trump wanted. Here, play it.
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Donald Trump
This ship isn't just to swat the arrows. It is going to reach out and kill the archers. And for the first time in generations, we'll have a new leg in America's nuclear deterrence because the Trump class battleship will carry the nuclear armed sea launched cruise missiles. Striking dominance isn't all that the Trump class battleship brings to the fight at sea. It has the size and capacity to serve as a flagship for our fleet commanders so that they can command and control naval forces far out to sea.
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