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flag officer corps of the United States military by the Secretary of Defense, not Secretary of War, requires an act

to Congress to change that no matter what he calls himself.

But I'm happy he has his pronouns and titles in ways that align with his identity and

the President of the United States.

Bill, so I want to start out here.

We're going to play a bunch of clips for people who mayn't have seen it.

I think you and I have sort of fundamentally different views.

I think this was as serious as a heart attack.

You, I think, think it was clownish.

I think, but these views are not intention, right?

They're reconcilable.

Yeah, the heart of Trumpism is that it's both, and of Trump is that he's both clownish and very dangerous. And so I think we probably

agree. I would, I mean, I wrote about this in, I guess, the last three morning shots. And so I've

been very alarmed about the upshot of this. And I'm slightly reassured in this respect, the senior officers,

the general flag officers, behaved in an exemplary way. I mean, they were stone-faced. They

did not rise to debate. Hakesheth and Trump both wanted applause, offered applause lines, invited

applause. Really, Hxseth paused very

conspicuously. Trump almost literally asked for it a couple of times. And they did not do that.

They stood as they always do when the president comes into the room and leaves. They gave him

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