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A white man's world? According to the New York Times, Hegseth's chief of staff told the Army secretary that trump "would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events," and apparently that attitude has been driving Pentagon policy. Hegseth blocked four decorated Army officers from promotion to one-star general, two of them Black and two of them women, on a list of about three dozen names that is otherwise mostly white men. He pressured Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll for months to remove them. Driscoll kept refusing, citing their decades of exemplary service. So Hegseth just did it himself, possibly without the legal authority to do so. One of the officers served through the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and by all accounts performed her job well under impossible circumstances. Another was flagged because he wrote a paper years ago explaining why Black soldiers have historically been steered into support roles instead of frontline positions. That was enough for Hegseth. And then there's Maj. Gen. Antoinette Gant, a combat engineer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, promoted to two-star general, and now leading the Military District of Washington. She was the officer Hegseth's chief of staff was complaining about in the first place. Rolling Stone reports that Driscoll was so alarmed by the exchange he raised it with a senior White House official. The promotion went through anyway. She stood next to trump at Arlington. She ate.

MAJOR TREND: MAGA burning their hats.