Donald Trump's latest foreign policy row spilt into late-night television on Wednesday, when Jimmy Kimmel used his ABC monologue to predict that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth could be the next senior official to be fired after abruptly cancelling a major US troop deployment to Poland last week.
Hegseth stunned both the Pentagon and allies in Europe when he scrapped a planned nine‑month deployment of 4,000 US troops to Poland. The move appeared to be a response to an earlier decision by Trump to pull 5,000 troops out of Germany after Chancellor Friedrich Merz publicly criticised the President's war in Iran. Trump has repeatedly signalled irritation with Berlin, but has not voiced the same anger towards Warsaw, a distinction that would soon prove awkward.
