When The Commander In Chief Loses The Military

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Hear the full Weekender every Friday, plus Live Shows and our community Discord. Support us at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman break down the bizarre Trump–Hegseth meeting with America’s top generals. Instead of commanding respect, Trump rambled through grievances and half-baked ideas while Hegseth postured and pandered, leaving serious military leaders unimpressed. We explore the dangerous implications of a president alienating his own brass, how authoritarian rhetoric collides with sheer incompetence, and why this moment opens up a host of unsettling outcomes. Along the way we look at the government shutdown, a self-defeating Argentina bailout, and the larger picture of American decline before closing with some culture picks.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of my great podcast. I'm Jared J.R. G.
0:05.5	Sexton. I'm joined, as always, with my friend, my compatriot. And I got to tell you,
0:11.4	Nick Houseman is in denial about the fact that he's getting sick. I'm just putting that out
0:15.6	there so people understand it. So now everybody gets to hear what I'm hearing, which is that
0:20.1	you are in total denial that
0:22.3	you are currently getting ill. Right. Don't let the voice fool you. Everybody hears it.
0:29.0	But, you know, it's my sexy voice now as I'm trying to get through this. But anyway, hopefully
0:34.3	everyone else is feeling terrific while I listening to this. And I wish the best health on everyone. It's sexy stricken voice. That's what we got today. We have a full
0:43.3	episode. We are, listen, we are going to cover aspects of this fascistic military meeting, if you
0:50.2	want to call it that, that no one else is going to talk about anywhere.
1:00.1	I have had some realizations and some thoughts about this that we're going to share in just a little bit.
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1:22.9	Nick, we we cover a lot of things on this show and there are things that are certainly disturbing and problematic.
1:25.5	And then we often cover things that we talk about at the moment and we talk about
1:31.8	where it's going in the future. And, you know, it's reading the writing on the wall. It's connecting
1:37.2	the dots that are there. And in this instance, this week on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, brought in hundreds of top military brass.
1:50.3	We're talking all of the major military leaders of America from around the world, flew them in specifically so that he and Donald Trump could speak to them. There are so many facets
2:04.7	to this story that we have to get into, threats, portons of the of the future. But the first thing
2:10.7	that we have to discuss, probably the most important of all of them, this is the president of the
2:15.0	United States of America, addressing the United States military senior leadership. We is the president of the United States of America addressing the United States military
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