30 September 2025
Trump and Hegseth’s Insulting Quantico Speeches
The President and Secretary of Defense made fools of themselves on 9/30/2025 by gratuitously assembling the experienced leaders of the country’s military and purporting to lecture them on how better to perform their jobs. It had to be embarrassing for the politely listening brass to have to sit through this demonstration of hubris by two symbols of Washington’s incompetence.
Trump and Hegseth were awarded leadership of America’s government by a public that has lost the ability to distinguish between sense and sensibility. Unedited communication media facilitate dominance of the public by demagogues. They, like Trump, play to many people's resentment of their need to defer to the judgment of their more qualified neighbors on significant matters. Both speakers at Quantico mistakenly thought that they were addressing members of the common public and not those very most qualified on matters of warfare.The result can only be the degradation of the nation’s military command structure. It may even make impossible Trump’s authoritarian dreams built on his expectation of a fully supportive force of arms.
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