President Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military
parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show
of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday
on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p---ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a
good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
As thousands of soldiers flanked by tanks made their way past empty
bleachers along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., social media
users pointed out that the soldiers were marching out of sync, and the
muted atmosphere appeared to match the gloomy weather.
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That didn’t escape Trump, who pointed the finger at his defense
secretary, according to Wolff.
“He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this,” the Trump biographer said. “Apparently, there was a phone call, and he said to Hegseth, the tone
was all wrong. Why was the tone wrong? Who staged this? There was the
tone problem. Trump, he keeps repeating himself.”
“It didn’t send the message that he apparently wanted, which is that he
was the commander in chief of this menacing enterprise,” Wolff added.
In response, the White House blasted Wolff once again as “a lying sack
of s--t” who “has been proven to be a fraud.”
Publicly, Trump has insisted that his parade was a “tremendous” success even after it was overshadowed by “No Kings” demonstrations across the country, which drew in millions of Americans who protested against the president’s sweeping immigration agenda.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reamed-out-hegseth-for-flop-birthday-parade-author/
Another terrific episode.
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