Livestreamed

Trump admitted it’s a tad pricey.

Trump said there was an expense to meet with top admirals and generals in Quantico today when departing the White House this morning.

“There’s a little bit of expense, not much, but there’s a little expense to that. We don’t like to waste it. We’d rather spend it on bullets and rockets, frankly,” Trump said when departing the White House.

No, not a little. Not not much. There’s a lot of expense to “that”. It’s utterly pointless expense, too, since it’s just saying stuff. There are quick cheap easy ways of saying things these days, so there’s no need to drag everyone into the Real Presence.

The brass is aware of this.

The president added that the meeting is “a good thing; a thing like this has never been done before, because they came from all over the world.”

Some context: CNN previously reported that several sources expressed concerns about the cost of getting hundreds of generals and admirals and their aides to Virginia on such short notice. The cost of plane tickets alone will likely be in the millions of dollars, the sources said. They were even more baffled about why they needed to be there in person when they learned on Sunday that the remarks would be livestreamed.

Hahahahahachoke. Sir couldn’t we have just watched the livestream sir?

President Donald Trump bashed his former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and former Defense Secretaries James Mattis and Mark Esper ahead of his speech to the military and threatened to fire generals he doesn’t like.

“We had some real bad ones last time. I rebuilt the military, the entire military, but I had unbelievable people to do that,” Trump said when departing the White House. “But I also had some bad ones at the top, like Milley, Mattis and Esper.”

Trump said some former officials from his first administration were recommended by Republicans but he was still unhappy with them, specifically calling Esper, “horrible.”

“They were recommended by RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) and others, and they’re not good. What we have now is the best,” Trump said.

The president also emphasized that if there is a general or admiral he does not like, he will fire them immediately.

“I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m gonna fire them right on the spot,” Trump said.

That’s the important point here. Trump can do whatever he wants. Is that clear? IS THAT CLEAR?

He thinks Colonel Jessup was the good guy.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told top military officers that he no longer wants to see “fat generals and admirals” or overweight troops in combat formations as he emphasized the need to stick to strict fitness standards for US service members around the world.

“It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon leading commands around the country, in the world, it’s a bad look,” Hegseth said during an unusual gathering of officers at a military base in Quantico, Virginia. “It is bad, and it’s not who we are.”

Sir yes sir! And who we are is fit and trim and photogenic enough to be on Fox News. That’s the important thing. Appearance is all. Don’t talk to me about technology; war is all about men punching each other face to face until the tallest trimmest handsomest Fox Newsiest man wins.

Hegseth pointed to his own participation in physical fitness exercises as an example of the standard he expects all US troops to follow.

“It all starts with physical fitness and appearance,” he said. “If the Secretary of War can do regular, hard PT [physical training], so can every member of our joint force,” he said.

“Today at my direction, every member of the joint force, at every rank, is required … [to] meet height and weight requirements twice a year every year,” Hegseth added.

War is about who is the most telegenic, and don’t you forget it.