With apologies to Art Linkletter’s “kids say the darndest things”:

 

In a post on X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth writes, “This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the @DeptofDefense. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops – distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING.”

 

When it was revealed that the program had been championed by Ivanka Trump, pushed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio while in the Senate, and enacted by President Trump in 2017, Hegseth posts a follow-up on X. He says the program was “straight-forward & security-focused” in 2017 when Trump enacted it but was “RUINED” by Joe Biden.

 

Just this April Rubio touted the program. “President Trump also signed the Women, Peace, and Security Act, a bill that I was very proud to have been a co-sponsor of when I was in the Senate, and it was the first comprehensive law passed in any country in the world – the first law passed by any country anywhere in the world – focused on protecting women and promoting their participation in society,” Rubio said at the International Women of Courage Awards.

 

News leaks out that Amazon plans to disclose the cost of Trump’s tariffs in the price of products it sells online. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasts Amazon saying, “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.” She also accused Amazon of partnering with “a Chinese propaganda arm.”

 

An angry Trump calls Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. An Amazon spokesperson announces that posting the tariff amounts was “never a consideration for the main Amazon site.” She added that tariff listing was “never approved and not going to happen.” Trump reveals he talked to “good guy” Bezos, who “did the right thing” and “solved the problem very quickly.”

 

After returning from Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome, Trump was asked who his choice would be to succeed Francis. “I’d like to be pope,” he said. “That’d be my number one choice.” Reporters said Trump was joking. The President went on to name an alternative. “We have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who is very good,” Trump said referring to Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

 

All this followed a published interview Trump had with The Atlantic in which he proclaimed, “The first time, I had two things to do – run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys…And the second time, I run the country and the world.”

 

“China won’t kneel down,” responds a post by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

 

Crawford is the author of “A Republican’s Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives.”