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   Trump sounded ‘exhausted, incoherent and stupid’ in his speech to military   
   top brass, says retired general   
      
   Retired General Barry McCaffrey, said the presentation at Quantico, in   
   Virginia, was ‘one of the most bizarre, unsettling events I’ve ever   
   encountered’   
      
      
   Donald Trump sounded “incoherent, exhausted and… at times stupid” in his   
   recent speech to military leaders, a retired general has said.   
      
   Retired General Barry McCaffrey branded the president’s Tuesday   
   presentation at Quantico, in Virginia, “one of the most bizarre, unsettling   
   events I’ve ever encountered.”   
      
   It comes as other leaders, including Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, have   
   questioned Trump’s ability to lead effectively. “There is something   
   genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked,”   
   Pritzker said Wednesday.   
      
   Speaking during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, McCaffrey shared the   
   governor’s sentiment.   
      
      
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   Pattons’   
      
   “I’ve been doing this a long time. That presentation at Quantico from the   
   president and Secretary of Defense was one of the most bizarre, unsettling   
   events I’ve ever encountered,” he said.   
      
   “The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times   
   stupid, meandering, couldn’t hold a thought together.”   
      
   As well as the president’s delivery, viewers were also stunned by the   
   content of the address by Trump and Pete Hegseth, in which the Defense   
   Secretary told the top brass to lose weight, shave their facial hair, and   
   prepare for possible deployment against the American public.   
      
   Trump also announced plans to use “dangerous” cities as “training grounds”   
   for military efforts, alleging the country was undergoing a “war from   
   within.”   
      
   “We’re under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy but   
   more difficult in many ways because they don’t wear uniforms,” Trump told   
   service members, The Associated Press reported.   
      
   “It’s to protect our republic,” he said. "We will not be politically   
   correct when it comes to defending American freedom.”   
      
   The purpose of the surprise meeting was not shared beforehand, leading to   
   predictions ranging from Trump demanding a loyalty oath from generals to   
   Hegseth publicly firing "woke" generals.   
      
   “We flew every general from across the world for this?” Democratic Senator   
   Reuben Gallego, an Iraq war veteran, said in a post on X. “This meeting   
   could have been an email.”   
      
   Others were more critical of the meeting, with Senator Jack Reed, the top   
   Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, calling the presentation   
   “an expensive, dangerous dereliction of leadership.”   
      
   “Even more troubling was Mr. Hegseth’s ultimatum to America’s senior   
   officers: conform to his political worldview or step aside,” Reed said   
   Tuesday in a statement, shared with The Hill.   
      
   “That demand is profoundly dangerous. It signals that partisan loyalty   
   matters more than capability, judgment, or service to the Constitution,   
   undermining the principle of a professional, nonpartisan military.”   
      
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