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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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.
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
What’s the word for when metaphors become reality?
MAGA
So he broke it and blamed the intern.
“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.
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…
DUI hire
Nothing is sacred and nothing is safe from the looting.
Interesting this leaked now. It happened months ago.
“Pay no attention to the president EUGHing and JEEIGHing during his rallies, please divert your attention to ball”
The writers are just phoning it in now.
What is it with this guy and big balls?
One desires that which one does not possess.
I just thought he liked the feeling of a huge gusher on his back. Like if Carolina Ramirez was topping him then pulled out.
My bet on this is Hegseth commandeered it from the Smithsonian and broke it when he drunkenly showed it off.
I bet he broke it trying to figure out how to open it to get the booze inside and then got pissed when he realized it’s just a globe.
"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
If it were simply a replica, they wouldn’t be spending all the time and effort to repair it
Scary how blatant the propaganda is now
Dude wishes he had a modicum of Ike’s rizz
