In his long, even-more-rambling-than-usual address to Pete Hegseth’s peculiar assemblage of military brass this morning, President Donald Trump talked about a lot of non-germane things, as the New York Times reported:

There does not seem to be a clear point or purpose in President Trump’s address to military generals today. It’s a garden variety tear; he’s talking about tariffs, Joe Biden and the autopen, the southern border, CNN, his personal feelings about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his anxieties that he won’t be given a Nobel Peace Prize he feels he deserves. These are things he talks about almost every day regardless of audience or setting. Every so often he throws in a statistic or observation he has about the military. 

“I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way,” he said at one point, pausing a riff about tariffs to bring up........

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