Dumb as all fuck............

"I don't know why Trump's base wouldn't "have faith" amid Republican war weariness"

By Michael Williams

Asked to respond to criticism from Americans who support President Donald Trump but don’t want to see US forces on the ground, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he doesn’t understand why the president’s political base “wouldn’t have faith in his ability to execute.”

“I don’t understand why the base — which they have already, they understand — wouldn’t have faith in his ability to execute,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday.

CNN has previously reported that Trump, who ran for president on a platform of ending forever wars, has risked alienating some of his base with this war in Iran.

While recent polling has shown that an overwhelming majority of self-described “MAGA voters” support the US war against Iran, a recent Reuters-Ipsos poll show that 21% of Republicans oppose it, while a Yahoo News-YouGov poll show that nearly one in four people who voted for Trump in 2024 opposed the war.

Hegseth said that Trump, more than anyone, has “internalized” the lessons from the previous US quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan and “he’s not going to repeat those lessons.”