A priceless pre-second world war globe coveted by the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth for his office in the Pentagon was damaged by his staff in a botched attempt to relocate it, army officials have admitted.
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They can’t even move a stationary globe while not being fired upon. I wonder how they’ll do in war? /s
Interesting this leaked now. It happened months ago.
Nothing is sacred and nothing is safe from the looting.
What’s the word for when metaphors become reality?
MAGA
So he broke it and blamed the intern.
Look, I’m the last person to judge them breaking something. I am clumsy and careless and break shit all the time.
But it’s just so perfectly emblematic of Republicans. They look at this old globe of the world how it was 80 years ago and think it’s so nice and they should have it for themselves… and then they break it out of carelessness.
The first paragraph dismisses the context though.
They were told by historians that it required special care to move, not some jackass, that they called down from maintenance.
These stupid monkeys wreck everything.
“An accident occurred while staff were transporting a replica of the Eisenhower globe as part of its relocation,” the official’s statement said.
“Accidents happen, we are grateful no one was harmed, and the globe is being repaired. It is unsurprising that the Washington Post is once again dedicating time to another inconsequential non-story.”
(Emphasis mine). Wow, just wow. It’d be an accident and non-story if they broke the copy machine or dropped a TV, but the whole point of historical artifacts is that they can’t just be replaced. I’d say it makes my blood boil, but let’s be real, it was already boiling, this is just fuel to the fire.
If you go to the original source of the story, wash Post, it’s not a replica, it’s one of three total Eisenhower globes. No where in there is the word replica.
What it’s supposed to look like:
What it now looks like:
He definitely thought he could store booze inside that thing.
The camera angles there make it look like it got a foot shorter too lol!
It’s not just a camera angle, the globe isn’t sitting in the cradle like it should be.
The metal band that runs the circumference of the sphere is supposed to fill the grooves in the base and rest on the nub by the floor. In the new picture you can see the band sitting lower and sitting in the groove and running in front of the nub on the base. I’d almost put money on the band getting bent and working out of its intended track causing the wood nub to get mashed into the plaster-like surface (guessing by the debris on the floor) of the globe.
Ya it looks like part of Antarctica got trashed.
A bit too on the nose there
The writers are just phoning it in now.
My bet on this is Hegseth commandeered it from the Smithsonian and broke it when he drunkenly showed it off.
DUI hire
Right up there with the orange painted cretin throwing White House sterling silverware in the trash
I hadn’t heard that one, but not surprising at this point.
It’s in Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s recent book.
What a lazy absolute disrespectful heathen. And recall how Republicans threw fits about things like the outgoing Clinton admin switching letters on keyboards at the White House…
Perhaps Pete could put some makeup on it …
