Donald Trump left little room for any conceivable doubt regarding his obvious, deep-seated desire to use racial slurs during his big speech to top US military officials today, during which he said with his whole entire chest, “There are two n-words, and you can’t use either of them.”
The topic at hand was actually nuclear weapons, as the sitting United States president addressed hundreds of American generals and admirals in a highly unusual gathering of military officials in Virginia, where he was joined by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth.
Trump told military officials that the word “nuclear” was not one to “throw around.” However, he couldn’t seem to get his point across without also alluding to another “N-word” that, in the court of public opinion, is certainly far worse and far more hateful and damaging than the word “nuclear.”
“We can’t let people throw around that word,” Trump told a room full of US military generals and admirals, before going on to add, “I call it the n-word. There are two n-words, and you can’t use either of them.”
“You can’t use either of them,” the president doubled down, for dramatic effect, I suppose.
Today’s public display of ignorance was far from the first time the sitting United States president has openly played on “nuclear” as “the N-word,” as he’s used the formulation between the two words countless other times in public speeches and incessant social media posts. However, this does mark the first time that Trump has publicly referenced the other, more commonly understood, and deeply hateful meaning of the “N-word,” with his whole chest and zero regrets.
While it’s certainly not an overly surprising display of unabashed racism and malevolence from 47, its use in the context of his big military speech, specifically, makes the entire ordeal that much more striking and troublesome, as the overall theme of Trump and Hegseth’s bizarre gathering of US military officials boiled down to ridding American Armed Forces of political correctness — i.e. They made it perfectly clear that inclusivity, acceptance, and compasion have no place in the United States military, but clearly racism, hatred, and bigorty sure in the Hell do.
The overall air of the event was simple, at its core — members of the United States military are expected to graciously, and without question, not only fall in line with but openly embrace the American Armed Forces’ new MAGA agenda, or resign… While they still have a chance.
Just ahead of the speech today, President Trump confidently told reporters that he will be firing any military generals that he finds unlikable “on the spot.”
Hegseth spent his speaking time openly trashing what he describes as a “woke” military and unabashedly used the event to vehemently defend his recent decision to fire more than a dozen officials within the US military, many of whom were… You guessed it… Women and people of color.
“For too long, we’ve promoted too many uniformed leaders for the wrong reasons, based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts,” the “Secretary of War” told the crowd of US military officials.
Hegseth’s round of unceremonious pink slips included the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who is Black; the first woman to command the Navy, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; and the U.S. military’s representative to the NATO military committee, Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, per the New York Times.
He went on to make it clear that he, with the full backing of the US president, would essentially be clearing the way for some of what will undoubtedly be the most abusive tactics the US military will have ever employed, as he explained that they would be redefining “so-called toxic leadership, bullying and hazing to empower leaders to enforce standards without fear of retribution or second guessing.”
As Hegseth’s remarks came to a close, he invited anyone who didn’t like what he had to say to find the door, as he told the crowd that if his message was “making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.”
Trump doubled down on this point when he took the stage back and clearly noted the lack of applause for Hegseth’s remarks and personally added, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room, of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.”
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Andrea is a full-time political reporter with more than 10 years of experience in the field. She serves as a writer for Liberal Agenda as well as the onwner and operator of The Resistance Report.
When she's not covering Trump's BS, you can find her mom-ing her feminist-in-training, trolling MAGA in her comments section, and behaving as an overall Menace to Society.
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