I readily concede that there are far more important things to think about than Donald Trump’s turn as a brunette, but it’s a holiday weekend, so I think we can indulge ourselves a bit.
Take a look: (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty).
My snark is taking a break for the long weekend, so go ahead and take your own shot…
Happy Sunday.
Here’s a far more consequential photo:
These 18 were not “small potatoes”:
BONUS: “The Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army Purge” - The New York Times (Gift link):
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided in early 2025 to spike Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s nomination to be the top U.S. military officer in Europe….
It fell to Joe Kasper, Mr. Hegseth’s chief of staff, to try to convince him that he was wrong.
Mr. Kasper asked a senior Pentagon official to prepare a card with a half-dozen bullet points laying out the facts in General Donahue’s defense, current and former officials said. He took it with him in March of last year as he and Mr. Hegseth sped through traffic to the White House for a press event.
For those few minutes in the car, Mr. Kasper knew he would have his boss’s undivided attention.
Sirens were blaring. He handed Mr. Hegseth the card….
The defense secretary glanced at the card and passed it back to his chief of staff.
“I don’t care,” Mr. Hegseth told Mr. Kasper.
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Congratulations on making through another deplorable week of feculence, arches, appeasement, and endless, meaningless wars. ICYMI:
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Sunset boys on a long holiday weekend.
Nobody said they wanted him to DYE!!!
His latest hair fiasco is hilarious! Wonder who will be fired over this? So Kegbreath doesn’t care that he’s gutting the military of all the people who know how to run it. It’s like killing everyone over the age of ten and then giving the 9 year olds the keys to the car and say “drive”. The institutional knowledge cannot be restored overnight. This man needs to be the first brought up on charges. The Senate is to blame for this. Happy doggie long weekend.