During military address, Hegseth lost respect and Trump starts to show Biden-like decline

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : As amateurish as all of these statements are coming from the Secretary of Defense, a particularly worrisome segment was Hegseth's tirade against rules of engagement.
44% : Time will tell whether these are genuine signs of neurodegenerative disease but Trump spoke slowly and quietly while seeming to give up on sentences and thoughts at times.
38% : Almost whispering, Trump said, "And you know, we want war because we want to have no wars, but you have to be there.
29% : A warrior ethos is vice when it causes us to treat faithfulness to decency as weakness. Being lectured by a classified war plans leaker was not enough punishment for these woke generals seeing that they then had to listen to an hour-long speech by Trump that was characterized by aimless rambling that starts to remind one of Joe Biden's mental decline.
26% : I have settled so many wars since we're here." Before that, Trump went off on a tangent about his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, "Like when I called the Gulf of America, the Gulf of America
24% : In a bizarre move on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump called in our top 800 military leaders from their stations around the world to lecture them on such things as beard standards, firefighters getting shot off their ladders, and the quality of the paper used in official documents.

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