You can laugh, or you can cry. But what you definitely cannot do — without a stiff dose of irony — is treat this as normal. Because the current Donald Trump feat. Pete Hegseth Show (working title: “Were They War Crimes? And Other Questions We Don’t Care to Answer”) is already stranger than satire.
The other day, we learned that the United States military fired first on a suspected narcotics boat off the coast of Trinidad — and then, when two people managed to cling to the wreckage, fired again. The follow-up strike, according to reporting in The Washington Post, was ordered by an admiral following Hegseth’s instruction to “kill everybody.”
