25 Years Later: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth Get Political at 9/11 Ceremony
The 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks took a sharp turn into current geopolitics at the Pentagon.
While politicians are banned from the microphone at the Ground Zero site to keep things solemn, the Pentagon ceremony had no such filter. Donald Trump Trump and Pete Hegseth Hegseth used their time on the podium to pivot straight into an update on the current standoff with Iran.
It was a jarring shift from mourning the dead to claiming total military dominance in the Strait of Hormuz. Hegseth went as far as declaring the Iranian Navy destroyed, which definitely came as news to anyone actually tracking the region. It’s a bold look to turn a memorial service into a campaign stump speech about nuclear weapons and sinking ships.
The contrast with the scene in New York was stark, where the focus remained on the names of the lost and the legacy of the first responders. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton Clinton stood in the background, keeping the tradition of silence, while the Pentagon stage went in a completely different direction.
Nothing says "never forget" quite like a live update on current military tactical success.
Source: UPI
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