… and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as well.

‘As the Israel-Iran conflict escalates, Donald Tr*mp huddles with his national security advisors to make a plan — but excludes his own head of defense, Pete Hegseth, from the process.

“Nobody is talking to Hegseth,” one official said, via The Washington Post. “There is no interface operationally between Hegseth and the White House at all.”

The former Fox host was included in decision-making at the beginning of Tr*mp 2.0, but the cabinet jester soon proved to be unreliable as the Secretary of Defense after accidentally sharing sensitive war information with a journalist in what’s now known as the Signalgate debacle.

Tr*mp’s inner circle of national security advisors now includes JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, as well as four-star generals Dan Caine and Michael “Erik” Kurilla, according to the Post.

And if you noticed that Tulsi Gabbard — the Director of National Intelligence — is also missing from that list, it’s because she, too, has been shunned by Tr*mp. The mad king sure knows how to pick ’em for what has got to the most terrifyingly dysfunctional U.S. administration in history.…’ Maureen Herman via Boing Boing