{"id":23295,"date":"2026-05-05T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=23295"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:50:12","slug":"trumps-war-hegseth-triggered-by-serious-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/05\/trumps-war-hegseth-triggered-by-serious-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Hegseth Triggered by Serious Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s loudest &#8220;liquor cabinet&#8221; official had a bad Tuesday morning &#8211; and that was despite the fact that, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3ml46fn5wjs24\">as Aaron Rupar pointed out on bsky.app<\/a>, &#8220;the first three questions Hegseth takes at this morning&#8217;s press conference are from OAN, Real America&#8217;s Voice, and the Daily Wire &#8212; all right-wing propaganda outlets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian: Pete Hegseth claims US-Iran ceasefire \u2018is not over\u2019 despite growing tensions in strait of Hormuz &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/05\/iran-us-israel-lebanon-strait-of-hormuz-ships-oil-uae-latest-news-updates\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: U.S. and Iran exchange taunts as attacks imperil fragile ceasefire &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/05\/04\/us-ships-iran-hormuz-ceasefire\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: Hegseth was triggered when a reporter flat-out accused Trump of capitulating on Iran: he &#8220;hasn&#8217;t capitulated on anything&#8221; &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/pete-hegseth-triggered-when-reporter-flat-out-accuses-trump-of-capitulating-on-iran-he-hasnt-capitulated-on-anything\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NBC: U.S.-Iran ceasefire in peril after Trump&#8217;s bid to force open the Strait of Hormuz &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/us-iran-war-trump-open-hormuz-attacks-ships-ceasefire-rcna343604\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s loudest &#8220;liquor cabinet&#8221; official had a bad Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23298,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions\/23298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}