Trump’s man babies keep breaking what they can’t control

A broken wartime keepsake and a satellite outage in Ukraine are the two incidents MS NOW commentator Jen Psaki uses to argue that people around President Donald Trump act rashly and then dodge responsibility.

The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wanted one of two globes used by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II displayed in his office. Army historians who should have advised on the move were furloughed during a partial government shutdown, so Hegseth's staff carried it themselves, and it was damaged. One source cited impatience as a likely factor. The shutdown ended that same day. A Defense Department official, unnamed, said accidents happen and that repairs were underway, without giving a cost or timeline.

Psaki sets that beside a longer-running failure: Starshield, a military satellite system operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, slowed for more than a week, limiting Ukraine's ability to run its missile interceptors at full strength. Musk and the White House traded blame. When lawmakers floated an inquiry, Musk threatened to find "who is really pulling the strings." The Wall Street Journal reported Trump phoned Musk Thursday to demand full restoration.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →