Wayne Lance

@MAGATruthX @allenanalysis Trump puts Trump first. He projects strength and incompetence, which makes him a blustering senile old man who lashes out like a pathetic toddler.

Macron can talk all he wants—but America doesn’t take lectures from France. 🇺🇸 President Trump puts America First, not global approval. While others hesitate, he leads with strength, protects our interests, and refuses to play nice just to impress foreign leaders. The same people criticizing his tone are the ones who’ve let chaos grow for years. Trump says what others won’t—and backs it up with action. Respect isn’t given because of polished words. It’s earned through results.

🚨A reporter asked Macron about Trump’s personal attacks against him. Macron’s response: “We are talking about war. Civilians dying. Economies suffering. What I heard is neither serious nor worthy of response. A world leader cannot use the language he is speaking.” Neither serious nor worthy of response. The President of France just dismissed the President of the United States in one sentence. France closed its airspace. France officially refused to send warships. France welcomed the doctors America expelled from the Caribbean. Macron said “nobody can force us.” Now Macron is telling the world Trump’s language is beneath the gravity of the moment.

@PavelSheynkman @Kasparov63 There's an assumption here that Isreal is the good guys. From behavior towards the west, they are no better or worse than China or Russia.

@Kasparov63 There is an assumption here that you make that Europe are still the “good guys”. From their behavior toward Israel in recent years, and their inability to tell the difference between bad and good, I see them as no better or worse than Russia or China.

It's hard for experienced diplomats like Mike, and really for anyone old enough to think of traditional US interests and alliances, but the goal of Trump and his sycophants is not to win "Cold War 2" against China and Russia, but to join the other side against "weak" Europe.

@AbC967041505 @BiankaB12 Solving a $.10 problem by throwing $100 bills at it is futile.

@BiankaB12 They are right about throwing the Immigrants out though

MAGA doesn’t seem to grasp what’s happening to them - or what they’re doing to America. Their movement is systematically dismantling the foundations of American power: its alliance system, its supply chains, the dollar’s reserve currency status, and the global trust in its institutions. That’s the very infrastructure that made America the dominant power of the last 80 years. So, unless MAGA is totally and irreversibly destroyed and deep structural reforms prevent another rogue president from taking office, there is no way back. History taught us that this is how empires fall - not from external invasion, but from within. I don't think that institutional resistance to MAGA is coming through impeachment or prosecution. The only cards left to play are engineered failure and manufactured consequences: > Trump promised a booming economy and low inflation. What Americans will get is crushing inflation and an unaffordable life - turning his own voters, especially independents, against him. > Trump promised to end wars. What Americans will get is proliferation of wars, higher military spending, and compounding misery. He promised everything to everyone and the only strategy left on the table is to weaponise those promises against him. With that said, the rest of the world will suffer collateral damage - that’s unavoidable. But the calculus is brutal and I think in 20-30 years, we will realise it was the least worst option: MAGA has become an existential threat to the Western order, and the only way to save said order is to destroy them politically - completely, and permanently. The people that chose to die on that hill - for whatever personal or ideological reason - will have a very tough life regardless of the outcome. Their lives would be shit whether or not Trump & MAGA are destroyed or prevail.

@bills_fan85 @shanaka86 That's simply not true. He appointed Hegseth who never won, but failed many times over.

@shanaka86 You fire him because he is part of the old guard that was a failure in Afghanistan and Iraq . Trump wants people who are winners .

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@SS_Strength_CO @DanLamothe @TaraCopp Sorry. He probably thought he was communicating with people who could understand diagrams. I'm sure that was frustrating.

@DanLamothe @TaraCopp Ah well, Hodne was a prick that couldn't answer a question without writing a stupid diagram on his whiteboard that only made sense to other war college graduates.

NEW HERE: It's not just Gen. Randy George who's on the way out. Defense officials tell me and @TaraCopp that Hegseth's team also is removing: Gen. David Hodne, a former Army Ranger who leads the services Transformation and Training Command Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., head of the Army's chaplain corps Hodne's command was created under George's watch, while Hegseth has sought recently to overhaul how military chaplains operate.

@RDog861 @tripgabriel So both vocabulary and reading comprehension are a problem for you.

@WayneLance @tripgabriel He thought so much of them, he retired them today.

The reason for Gen. George's firing, in part: Hegseth for months has pressed Gen. George & Army Secy Dan Driscoll to remove 4 officers -- 2 Black & 2 female -- from a promotions list. George & Driscoll have refused, citing the officers long and exemplary service.

@ripblackmamba @FrankenforIowa Exactly. We need to bury our head in the sand and let the senile old man drive the bus off the cliff. People keep grabbing the steering wheel when they should let him continue to take a wrecking ball to all that the US has built.

@FrankenforIowa Have faith in Trump. The night is darkest before the dawn

This Administration is just beginning its assault on the America we knew. It will get very ugly.

@FrankLuntz The move is part of a white house effort to allow us drug makers to maximize profits and for us consumers to pay more. Your interpretation is inappropriate.

President Trump has ordered a 100% tariff on brand-name pharmaceuticals produced overseas. The move is part of a White House effort to push drug companies to manufacture in the U.S. 💊 usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

@RDog861 @tripgabriel A dictionary would be helpful for you to fully understand what their commander thought of their capabilities.

Interesting. "Long and exemplary service" is not necessarily the only requirement for promotion to the next higher level. Ability comes into play plus perhaps their vision for the position they were being considered for. Hanging around a long time and staying out of trouble (which is what long and exemplary service means) means that you were risk averse and didn't draw attention to yourself.

@ChadBown @ModeledBehavior @SoumayaKeynes Despite my bad joke, I did order back in July and am looking forward to reading it.

@WayneLance @ModeledBehavior @SoumayaKeynes Thanks, Wayne!

New book from @SoumayaKeynes and @ChadBown coming soon! Looking forward to it simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-W…

@tsteele93 @CBSNews @adamyamaguchi No need. Since this is white fraud, they should expect a full pardon from Trump.

@CBSNews @adamyamaguchi Well I sure hope that a liberal judge gives them the slap on the wrist that they deserve! 🙄

This morning, the FBI raided the home of a psychologist and nurse in an affluent neighborhood. The couple is accused of defrauding Medicare for more than $7 million in a hospice fraud scheme – and they left their neighborhood in handcuffs. @adamyamaguchi

@DrNeilStone This isn't fair. He could also have brain damage from over use of Ivermectin.

William Makis is either a genius who has found the cure for cancer or a narcissistic grifting quack making money off the hopes of desperate people I think I know which it is

@PM_ViktorOrban @JDVance This is the dream team. Two great leaders standing in support of each other. Putin must be proud of his two cuckolds.

Vice President @JDVance will visit Hungary next Tuesday. Looking forward to welcoming you to Budapest! 🇭🇺🇺🇸

@depoflix @Mylovanov Exactly. It's exhausting being a super power and leader of the free world. It's about time someone else stepped up. We need to close all of our bases in Europe and turtle up at home. There is only so much relative peace and prosperity a nation can take.

@Mylovanov Surely the rest of the world had to know that the free ride the USA offered since WWII would end at some point. Ukraine is badass. 4 sure. But the rest of Europe needs to step and fast. If they do, the USA will have their back. That's how it works.

Fukuyama: The U.S. does not now have a Trump doctrine. Its behavior can best be explained not by a set of principles, but by the personal interests and preoccupations of the president. Trump's head is full of resentments, anger, anecdotes, and made-up facts. 1/

@RadioFreeTom Fox News will hold the Fear Factor-like show where contestants will compete for that position. The ratings will be out of this world. Maybe even they can get Joe Rogan to host.

Firing the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war is always a sign that things are going great

@TristanCPDT @JenniferJJacobs @zerohedge @SecWar @CBSNews Exactly. We need more people like Hegseth. They are unpredictable, but fun. You never know who they will bomb next and what crazy lies they will tell to explain away their incompetence. That's the kind of Dept. of War America needs!

@JenniferJJacobs @zerohedge @SecWar @CBSNews Good - get rid of every Biden appointment

Scoop: @SecWar Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told @CBSNews.

@M_S_Billingslea @McFaul This ignores that Trump's withdrawal was the catalyst for the growth. He gave them back their dominion of nuclear programs, how the hell would Biden get them back into JCPOA after Trump's blunder.

You’re entitled to your own opinion, @McFaul, but not your own set of facts. Under the first Trump Admin., even after we withdrew from the JCPOA, Iran had only 500 centrifuges and ZERO highly enriched uranium. Then along comes Joe Biden, who suspended sanctions enforcement. Iranian oil sales skyrocket 5x, billions in blocked accounts are transfered to the regime, & Iran builds 15,000 centrifuges spinning out more than half a ton of HEU. Those are the facts.

@kendonnelly @mdubowitz It was filled with contradictions. It's obvious he had no real plan. He thought Iran would be Venezuela and 48 hours later he'd be a conquering hero. Now he's making up shit to justify it.

@WayneLance @mdubowitz You should learn to listen better. He clearly and concisely explained both his reasons and his goals.

Critics: Trump owes Americans a prime-time explanation of Iran war — why, how it’s going, and what comes next. Trump gives the speech. Critics: Why spend 20 minutes repeating what anyone who follows the issue obsessively on X already knew? Maybe: the speech wasn’t for you.

@rdone @RadioFreeTom @mrbigg450 Wrapped up like a dueche, another pedo in the night. Blinded by the Right. 😉

@RadioFreeTom @mrbigg450 Trump is wrapped up like a Deuce. Another runner in the night.

The President of the United States is an emotionally unstable man with obvious cognitive issues. We are in the middle of a war, he tanked an important speech to the nation, and this is what he's worried about: