If you’re clutching your pearls over the latest Pentagon purges, grab a stiff drink and buckle up. The chaos isn’t a bug—it’s the feature.
When President Trump’s team took over the Department of Defense, they found a department being run like a gender studies seminar at UC Berkeley. Cleaning house would take more than spritzing Febreze and playing nice with traitors.
So no, I’m not just “okay” with the firings. I’m thrilled. Enthusiastic. Popping popcorn and taking bets on who’s next. If you walked into a crime scene soaked in incompetence, cowardice, and pronoun policies, you wouldn’t start negotiating—you’d start kicking down drywall.
Let’s rewind: The DOD, once the gold standard of American strength, now resembles a confused HR department in a failing San Francisco startup. You’ve got generals painting their fingernails, military recruiters tap-dancing for TikTok, and brass who think “combat readiness” means being emotionally prepared for microaggressions.
This didn’t happen overnight. The Left has been quietly hollowing out the military for years. Obama replaced warriors with woke careerists, and patriotic service replaced with performative diversity hires. By the time Trump came back into power, what was once a fearsome fighting force looked more like a drag brunch in camo.
So when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth started showing people the door, was anyone surprised? If you were, you haven’t been paying attention. The DOD isn’t malfunctioning—it’s being rebooted. And like any good system cleanse, it starts with dumping corrupted files.
Here’s what went down, per Mediaite:
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lost a fifth top aide on Thursday as it was reported that his chief of staff, who grabbed headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons, would exit his role.”
“Politico’s Jack Detsch and Daniel Lippman first reported the news and added, ‘Joe Kasper was originally expected to transition to another role within the Defense Department, but is now planning to go back to government relations and consulting, he said in an interview.’”
“Kasper’s exit comes following the firing of other top aides, some of whom were close friends of Hegseth, amid a leak investigation. Politico noted, ‘Some officials saw the wave of firings as a bid by Kasper to consolidate power.’”
Now, don’t let the breathless reporting fool you.
The media wants you to think the Trump administration is spiraling, imploding, eating itself alive. What they’re not saying is that this is precisely what it looks like when corruption and incompetence get evicted from positions they’ve squatted in for decades.
Yes, the DOD needs a makeover—and not the kind with eyeliner and inclusion consultants. It needs an exorcism. And while I’m generally in favor of Hegseth’s aggressive approach, let’s not pretend it’s all smooth sailing. Some of the new hires haven’t exactly been vetted with a fine-toothed comb. That’s where I’d advise Hegseth to link arms with someone like Laura Loomer, whose hobby is sniffing out embedded Leftist saboteurs like a bloodhound on Adderall.
She’s made a cottage industry out of exposing the Biden holdovers and bureaucratic termites who try to derail real reform from within. If Trump’s team really wants to turn the tide, they’ll need to stop playing defense and start naming names. The American people are done with the secrecy and the swamp gas. Shine a floodlight on every act of insubordination and let the chips—and heads—fall where they may.
And let’s not pretend this will be a quick fix.
You can’t detox a department that’s been sipping soy lattes and issuing DEI memos for ten years in a single afternoon. But if Hegseth can withstand the inevitable temper tantrums from the fake news media and brittle Beltway insiders, he’ll prove the old rule of warfare: purge the traitors before you face the enemy.
That’s why, as far as I’m concerned, the firings are the best signal yet that the DOD is finally taking its vitamins. Call it chaos, all it a purge, call it whatever you want. But don’t call it unexpected. This was always the plan. When the house is crawling with rats, you don’t wait for them to leave voluntarily. You bring smoke.
What the Trump team should do next is simple: market the purge.
Don’t run from the narrative—own it. Give Americans a weekly “Traitor Tracker” rundown. Film the emptying of desks. Make it must-watch. People love justice, especially when it’s overdue and televised.
By being fully transparent and unapologetically aggressive, Trump can do what no modern president has managed to do: break the culture of passive corruption and bureaucratic backstabbing. Every time someone gets the boot, explain why. Let the people see the cancer being cut out, root and stem.
Because the American people aren’t dumb. They know the DOD’s been compromised. They know it’s not about “readiness” when your generals can’t define “woman.” They’re watching and waiting for someone to actually do something about it.
And now, finally, someone is. So don’t panic over the firings. Celebrate them. This isn’t dysfunction—it’s detox. The DOD is not falling apart. It’s shedding its dead skin.
And trust me, it’s going to look a whole lot uglier before it gets better. Just like it should.
