President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to make the military “stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before” in his address to hundreds of senior U.S. military officers during an extraordinary meeting that has placed many of the Pentagon’s top generals and admirals in one room. Trump’s remarks follow a speech by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in which he pledged to fix “decades of decay” in the military, which he blamed on “foolish and reckless politicians.” Both Trump and Hegseth decried what they described as “political correctness” in the military in the past. The gathering, at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, was ordered by Hegseth last week and required some top military officers across the globe to fly thousands of miles on short notice.
President Donald Trump, who draws energy off of instantaneous feedback, seems quite affected by an audience that is largely silent. His remarks appear to be delivered in half-speed, in a monotone. And for a president who complained about a malfunctioning Teleprompter last week at the United Nations, there is little indication that he is following the one in the room as he leaps from disparate topics that have little relevance to the military brass there.
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