Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING as MILITARY LEADERS QUIT

wrote in the Atlantic that the question on the minds of the top military commanders after listening to Donald Trump yesterday must have been, “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?” I mean, when top military officials are announcing their retirement just days after a speech filled with ideological pressure and threats to military denters, you know, things aren’t exactly going in the right direction. Our job, my job has been to determine which leaders simply did what they must to answer the prerogatives of civilian leadership and which leaders are truly invested in the woke department and therefore incapable of embracing the war department and executing new lawful orders. That’s it. It’s that simple. So, for the past 8 months, we’ve gotten a good look under the hood of our officer corps. We’ve done our best to thoroughly assess the human terrain. We’ve had to make trade-offs and some difficult decisions. It’s more of an art than a science. We have been and will continue to be judicious, but also expeditious. The new compass heading is clear. Out with the Charllis, the McKenzies, and the Millies, and in with the Stockdale, the Schwarzoffs, and the Pattons. more leadership changes will be made of that uncertain. Not because we want to, but because we must. Once again, this is life and death. The sooner we have the right people, the sooner we can advance the right policies. Personnel is policy. But I look out at this group and I see great Americans, leaders who have given decades to our great republic at great sacrifice to yourselves and to your families. But if the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign. We would thank you for your service. in the past few days since Trump’s rare gathering at Quantico where he addressed nearly 800 senior military leaders, generals, admirals, and top advisers and basically told them that US cities were to be treated as training grounds for the military unless of course you spoke with Mike Johnson in which he will tell you that those exact words that you’re mentioning that Trump said, he didn’t really mean them, right? Hold on a second. The speaker of the house, do you let me answer the question? Speaker of the House, do you believe it’s appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the US military, calling those people in the American cities the enemy within you? I’m asking you as Speaker of the House, do you think that’s appropriate? I’m I’m not going to comment on your characterization what the president said. I didn’t get to see that busy yesterday. Well, you can take his quotes out of context, which you often do, and I don’t think that’s fair to the president. I’ll tell you what he’s done, though. He’s put National Guard troops here in DC and cleaned up the crime problem. people can walk to safely to and from work today because the president takes crime seriously. Some of the big mayors in some of these big blue cities are not. And I think that’s probably what he was addressing there. Well, after it, there’s been a slew of sudden retirements. Interesting. You see, Trump framed domestic unrest as a battlefield, declaring a war from within and naming cities like San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles as targets in that fight. He urged that the military should be a quote major part of restoring order. Important mission. And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military national guard but military. Meanwhile, Pete Hgsets, well, he did his best to get a rise out of the silent crowd. But instead, it turned out to be more of a Jeb Bush, please clap moment. Move out and draw fire because we are the War Department. Godspeed. Let’s do [Music] I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we’re prepared to act in the national security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world. Please clap. But in a recent example, General Thomas A. Busousier, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, requested retirement, citing, quote, “personal and family reasons.” Busier once was nominated by Trump to become vice chief of staff of the Air Force, but he had that nomination revoked. How many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate? That sounds like something that deserves a zero tolerance policy. And we have never seen public flashes of insanity from any president other than Donald Trump. And we now see them every day. A president who has failed to get his funding plan passed by a Congress completely controlled by his party then spends the day creating public versions of his hallucinations about the Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate. The president gives every indication that you could possibly ask for that he has lost his mind and every single elected Republican official in Washington excuses it. Most of them run away from it. They don’t even want to talk about it. And the highest ranking elected Republican in Washington says it’s funny. Now, of course, this could just be a coincidence, right? Except it’s not the only highlevel exit recently, let alone this week. I mean, earlier General David Alvin announced that he would retire midway through his term as Air Force Chief of Staff. A move that many had described as forced. Trump’s administration has reshuffled and dismissed multiple top commanders, the chair of the Joint Chiefs, the Navy’s head, and the Coast Guard commanding, as well as the Air Force vice chief. Now, some of these departures have been framed as part of a broader military purge or repositioning according to the Daily Beast. But when senior military leaders leave voluntarily around a moment of political pressure that was unprecedented, I mean, we’ve never seen a speech given to leaders like that. It suggests more than personal decisions, right? Especially when the commander-in-chief is saying things like this on stage. a speech that was so filled with falsities that had to be fact checked in real time on CNN. Uh he also repeated his usual lie that the 2020 election involving him and Biden was rigged. Of course, he lost fair and square. He repeated this lie that he tells over and over that uh the Congo and Venezuela both emptied their prisons to somehow allow prisoners to come to the United States as migrants. There was no evidence that any of that happened. President Trump’s own team has never been able to offer any cooperation. And I’ve spoken to independent experts on both the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Venezuela who have seen who have said they’ve seen nothing to support any of that. Uh President Trump again repeated this claim we’ve been hearing from him that Biden let in 25 million migrants. That’s up from President Trump’s former claim of 21 million. Even that was false. So the actual number is less than half of that even if you count the millions who were rapidly expelled from the country uh under CO era immigration provisions. So, not even close. President Trump again said that President Biden provided 350 billion worth of aid to Ukraine. That’s also not even close. Even generously uh by independent expert estimates, the actual number is about half that. And we also heard President Trump repeat this claim he made at the United Nations the other day that he has settled seven wars. But even the examples that President Trump cited cited himself show that that claim is not true. For example, he mentioned uh the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Well, the war involving uh those two countries has not actually been settled despite a peace agreement signed under President Trump. Hostilities continue. We have good reporting from the ground. CNN was there last week showing that the fighting continues. And the peace agreement that was signed under Trump did not involve the rebel coalition allegedly backed by Rwanda that’s doing much of the fighting. He also mentioned Kosovo and Serbia as a supposed war he has ended. Well, they have not actually been at war under President Trump. He previously claimed that he prevented a new war from erupting. There’s thin evidence even for that. But the claim that he ended an actual war uh between those two entities is is just not correct. So tonight, one less general in uniform means more question marks in the Pentagon as a whole. Because in an era where politics is pressing into every corner of command and the military is being touted as a weapon to clean up our streets, we need to be paying attention to how those leaders are responding. Thanks for watching. Be sure to add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast for new updates every single day. [Music]

Francis Maxwell reports on military generals rebuking Trump after he and Pete Hegseth flew in top military brass for what was essentially a MAGA rally.

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50 comments

  3. Why quit, what is quitting gonna do, why aren’t they banding together to try and remove him, too many are just accepting defeat instead of taking a stance, their supposed to be the bravest amongst us yet they quit smh

  4. So instead of standing up to him and protecting us from a fascist dictator, our generals are resigning their posts and giving Trump exactly what he wants–room to put more sycophants in their places? SHAME ON THEM FOR ABANDONING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

  5. If you quit…. He will put someone who will do all he instruct as a replacement.

    If you don't agree with him…. Then stand your ground to disobey him when a stupid command comes in

  8. So many gullible people try to ride the adrenaline rush of lazy, criminal mad men, as if the addiction to the horrible high is worth it. Everyone has choices — courage and honor take so much more discipline, morality and effort.

    Now is the time for Universal Healthcare. No more kick the can games and ignoring urgent BASIC needs. Smart is better than stupid and hiding.

    We must end this horrific Trump debacle NOW.

  10. You listed 1 person who left after that speech. You can tell by the silence that they weren't happy but a bunch didn't quit.

  11. I'm glad those WEAK generals are quitting. They took an oath, and now they don't want to abide by that oath. GET 'EM OUT. It's been almost 27 years since I was active duty, and I've never seen so many insubordinate generals in all my life. But then again, I never saw so many DEMOCRATS in the military, either. They were the ones spitting on the Vietnam vets! You wouldn't find many, if any lefties in the military when I was in.

  15. What a disconnect! Midas Touch boasting that too military officials are retiring to protest Trump. Meanwhile every comment sees that as a bad thing.

  16. Trump AND HIS handlers (R. Voight, S. Miller, K Noem. J.D Vance) have all lost their minds. They are all sick, distorted individuals. Mike Johnson and the rest of the republican party are enablers. It's disgusting and we need to invoke the 25th amendment and run the rest of them out of Washington DC.

  18. Almost all Republican politicians are traitors, and when we have a just government, they must all be held accountable along with the lobbyists and those who have made this treason possible. No one should get less than 10 years in prison, and pardons should be made nearly impossible. The president's power to grant pardons should be removed because the only ones who benefit from it are corrupt rich pigs and friends of the president. This applies to both Republicans and Democrats, and with Trump, corruption has reached new heights.

  20. A failed major telling veteran combat generals how to do their jobs. U.S.A. You need to waken up this is real life not fantasy, the experience these Generals have does not grow on trees once they have gone who do you replace them with Patel,Bondi and Hesqueth.

  22. The issue is that this is exactly what he wants. He wants all the good guys out of the military, so only the lunatic goons who will always do what Trump orders are left. The best thing those Generals can do is to stay and keep their power intact so they can refuse to press the red button, and tell Trump: "Ain't gonna happen, bud, it is illegal, get your act togheter!" This is handing a spot to Trump that can be filled with the next psychopath. Please stay, and fight them. Become the "enemy from within", who put the Constitution over illegal orders.
    Don't hand him any power. If he wants you out, say: "make me". Do whatever it takes to slow him down, instead of handing him an easy win. Make your exit of the military be the action that mattered.

  24. This Is an internal coup d'état…
    Mr Trump Is determined tò remain in change for a long time: if he Will not remain ofgicialy in change as president, he Will do It indirectly leveraging the puppets he Is disdiminating in these years in all the American organizazion… Fron the judicial system tò the military, from the health care tò the Watch dogs…
    Do NOT resign, keep your position… Do not facilitate his dictatorships…
    Shame on MAGA the Moscov's Agents Governing America

  26. Why do Republicans still like this guy why do they only believe the lies? Are you aware that they want to attack American people and use them for target practice?

  27. If you only believe the Trump lies remember he said he wanted to use Americans for target practice just look at his old statements

  34. Getting old political, woke generals to quit is a feature not a bug. You see, here is how it works. The commander in chief and the Sec of War make policy and generals follow or quit. It's that simple. How can the necessary idiots below be for DEI and woke politics in the military? I just don't get it. Well, I guess it's because I'm awake not woke.

  36. Pete, you are not welcome here. If these words make your heart sink, well even they don't, you should resign. You have no credibility amongst those leaders and no right thinking we approve of you. We don't.

  39. I dont understand the hate he’s getting?…… All he said was he wants a non apologetic lethal no bs anti woke army that is about the mission only. An army that focuses about being a military rather than politics. And every one is upset about that???

  40. If you’re at retirement age it’s coincidental- they can probably do more outside of the military if the military stay true and refuse to disobey unlawful orders.

  44. Quitting is the worst thing they can do….. STAND UP AND RESIST. Quit so they can just replace them with more Yes men? This is dangerous

  47. Retiring is just bowing out of the fight without even throwing a punch. They betrayed their oath in the safest way possible. And it's not a 'rude awakening'. It's exactly what the mango Mussolini wants. Yes men now get promoted.

  48. You can break your oath and disobey the president. It has widely been accepted in military law that if a commanding officer is wearing his underpants on his head, it’s usually OK not to do what he says. And now that all of these people who don’t want to follow Trump have stepped out of their roles, They’ve opened the door for people who have no problem following Trump to enter

  49. When you can find honesty and integrity maybe you can speak on TV Johnson. But you and Trump both know the only reason you put troops into Washington DC is because of your current actions in government have brought about protest around the country who then decided to bring those protests to Washington DC. So by threat of intimidation you brought troops into Washington DC to prevent such actions as you knew you would not be able to leave that White House ever again as Americans would pack the city of Washington DC and block every street from wall to wall.

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