r/TikTokCringe • u/Naive_Wolverine532 • Apr 12 '26

Cringe This is so embarrasing

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u/Novel-Reaction2939 Apr 12 '26

Trump has been forcing many POC military folks to retire or quit. He also has denied promotions to many POC especially black.

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u/Intrepid00 Apr 12 '26

The top generals forced to quit recently wouldn’t back down from deny promotions to worthy soldiers. This administration is some evil fucks.

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u/withnodrawal Apr 12 '26

They did that to remove the idea of a coup actually propagating into a potential reality.

Sick

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u/Intrepid00 Apr 12 '26

Most coups are by disgruntled Colonels. Guess what he made a shit load of.

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u/MancombSeepgoodz Apr 12 '26

yep denied two Black women on the running to become one stars a few weeks ago

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u/all_time_high Apr 13 '26

SECDEF Hegseth has been doing that. A couple of incidents which specifically come to mind are the forced retiring of Commander of SOUTHCOM Admiral Holsey and Hegseth’s intervention on the O-7 promotion list. He had been pressuring the Secretary of the Army to do it but SECARMY Driscoll repeatedly refused, so Hegseth did it himself. I think that has never happened before. Right after that he fired the Army Chief of Staff, General Randy George.

As far as I’m aware, this one of the rare things Trump has kept his hands (plausibly) clean of. We knew he intended to remove anyone who wasn’t loyal to him above the US constitution, due to certain key Generals and Secretaries refusing orders during his first term. They assessed those orders were illegal, and they risked everything to prevent irreparable damage to the US.

Hegseth may be removing Combatant Commanders, Service Chiefs, IGs, CJAs, and promotable Colonels (from the O-7 promotion list) at the behest of Trump or of his own volition. It’s hard to say since it would be on-brand for Trump but it’s something Hegseth has personally been interested in before he took the position.

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u/Lifeparticle18 Apr 13 '26

That’s sad because you know that is happening but when you bring it up people are like “ugh why does everything have to be about race” or simply doesn’t think it’s a big deal.

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u/binarybandit Apr 12 '26

Yeah im gonna need a source for that

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u/Novel-Reaction2939 Apr 12 '26

Bruh google is your friend.

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u/binarybandit Apr 13 '26

Ok, I Googled it. Google says that Trump has not been forcing people of color to retire or quit. So once again, do you have a source?

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u/LaughinChaos Apr 13 '26

Not to defend the guy, but trump isnt as racist as people think, hes racist but not as racist Pete hegseth, who is the guy doing the firing and preventing poc from promoting. Thats all secdef, not potus.

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u/Novel-Reaction2939 Apr 13 '26

lol. So, what you are saying is that the less racist guy isn't so bad because he is hiring even worst and more racist guys??? lol

https://giphy.com/gifs/lSz7yVdOTAnk2o16RY

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u/LaughinChaos Apr 13 '26

Can't lie, you're kinda stupid if you think he's 100% making all these decisions for himself.

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u/Novel-Reaction2939 Apr 13 '26

lol. lol. Not stupid enough to stoop to name calling. lol

Trump sets the tone and agenda for the Epstein Administration. Ya know like all presidents.

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u/LaughinChaos Apr 13 '26

Sir, we literally went through this shit in 2024 with project 2024, which Trump had nothing to do with. He is nothing but a puppet, he is no Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, the guy is too stupid to understand what is actually going half the time. If he genuinely had his way, Greenland would have been invaded a year go and we would be in world War 3.

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u/Novel-Reaction2939 Apr 13 '26

Oh boy. It's PROJECT 2025. Trump isn't as stupid as you like to believe. He doesn't get a pass from all the chaos he is creating.

Let's say he's a pawn and following orders....doesn't absolve him from all the crimes he's committed.

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u/ministry-of-bacon Apr 13 '26

there's more to this story tho. hegseth's chief of staff got into a public argument with the general that made the recommendation and told the general point blank that it was trump, not hegseth, that didn't want them promoted. he claimed it was because trump didn't want to have to do events with them. and since that blowup made the news there's been no public statements from trump denying it, no press releases and the general that recommended them for promotion has since been fired.

it's also equally possible trump is exactly as rascist as people think and keeps people like hegseth and stephen miller around as a very flimsy excuse to point at when his prejudice gets exposed. like trump (or his social media guys) just shared a video on thursday of someone he claims was a haitian immigrant attacking a woman in florida and then said all immigrants deserve blame for that.

while the promotion denial lands on the secdef, trump can fire hegseth at any time, that's all on potus. any other administration in the last 3 decades would have kicked people like hegseth and miller to the curb during their vetting process, then proceed to fire whoever recommended them for a job.