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New Cabinet casualty predicted as DC insider puts Trump's 'public embarrassment' on notice

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A veteran political journalist has put a name on Donald Trump's next Cabinet casualty, and he didn't hedge on the timing. Writing on his Substack Tuesday, Paul Waldman predicted that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be either fired or forced to resign before long, which would make him the third Cabinet secretary to fall in Trump's second term. "In a cabinet full of grifters and nincompoops, Hegseth stands out for his combination of belligerent buffoonishness and rampaging incompetence," Waldman wrote. "As ill-advised as it is to make predictions in politics, we'll offer this one: Hegseth will be the next Trump cabinet secretary to be fired or forced to resign, and it won't be long." Waldman argued that the final push won't come from policy failures, but rather from humiliating the boss. "Being bad at your job won't get you the boot in Donald Trump's government; for that, you have to become enough of a public embarrassment that he decides you're reflecting poorly on him," he wrote. "

First report: DC insider predicts the next Trump Cabinet official on the chopping block — alternet.org, 6d