Pete Hegseth’s staff break priceless historic globe he requested for office
A priceless pre-second world war globe coveted by the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth for his office in the Pentagon was damaged by his staff in a botched attempt to relocate it, army officials have admitted.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/pete-hegseth-eisenhower-globe-pentagon-office-brokenOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Why would he even want that? It's not like he even knows how to use it.
If it were simply a replica, they wouldn't be spending all the time and effort to repair it
Scary how blatant the propaganda is now
Look, I'm the last person to judge them breaking something. I am clumsy and careless and break shit all the time.
But it's just so perfectly emblematic of Republicans. They look at this old globe of the world how it was 80 years ago and think it's so nice and they should have it for themselves... and then they break it out of carelessness.
There's actually a department in charge of moving historical stuff like this, precisely so it doesn't get broken, but no, he just sent his thugs over to grab it ...
I soooo hope this was some "OK Boss" military malicious compliance kind of shit.
The first paragraph dismisses the context though.
They were told by historians that it required special care to move, not some jackass, that they called down from maintenance.
What is it with this guy and big balls?
One desires that which one does not possess.
I just thought he liked the feeling of a huge gusher on his back. Like if Carolina Ramirez was topping him then pulled out.
Interesting this leaked now. It happened months ago.
"Pay no attention to the president EUGHing and JEEIGHing during his rallies, please divert your attention to ball"
What it's supposed to look like:
What it now looks like:
He definitely thought he could store booze inside that thing.
The camera angles there make it look like it got a foot shorter too lol!
It's not just a camera angle, the globe isn't sitting in the cradle like it should be.
The metal band that runs the circumference of the sphere is supposed to fill the grooves in the base and rest on the nub by the floor. In the new picture you can see the band sitting lower and sitting in the groove and running in front of the nub on the base. I'd almost put money on the band getting bent and working out of its intended track causing the wood nub to get mashed into the plaster-like surface (guessing by the debris on the floor) of the globe.
Ya it looks like part of Antarctica got trashed.
So it's more true to reality?
What's the word for when metaphors become reality?
MAGA
womp womp
A bit too on the nose there
The writers are really phoning it in this season.
Way too many of you are assuming it's actually broken and not stolen.
My theory is that Pete Kegsbreath drunkenly stumbled into it and knocked it down, and now he’s blaming his staff as cover.
(Emphasis mine). Wow, just wow. It'd be an accident and non-story if they broke the copy machine or dropped a TV, but the whole point of historical artifacts is that they can't just be replaced. I'd say it makes my blood boil, but let's be real, it was already boiling, this is just fuel to the fire.
So like, is it a replica of an Eisenhower globe or is it an Eisenhower globe? I feel like that is a pretty significant asterisk here, and kind of significantly changes the narrative. Someone's lying, and as a matter of principle I'm inclined to believe it's Hegseth, but I'd like to know what's actually broken. I don't give a shit if Hegseth breaks his own toys, and if he broke a replica that can be replaced. But he seems to be the only one claiming this is a "replica", as far as anyone else seems to know, including plaques installed at the globe's original location this appears to be an actual globe used by Eisenhower, not a replica.
It is either a replica or it is the Eisenhower globe, not an Eisenhower globe. The article reports that it is the priceless globe that Eisenhower used to in planning D-Day that was dropped onto its base and shattered. Kegsbreath's spokesman is trying to claim that it was only a replica. Typical bullshit lie to try and hide their incompetence.
It's just another rare thing they're destroying like the memorials, the US military, the social cohesion.
That's a good point! I saw the bit about a moving company being qualified to move the globe and totally missed the (alleged) replica part. I agree though, the current administration doesn't strike me as the type to "settle" for a replica, not when they could say the word and have the original 1 of 1 thing.
If you go to the original source of the story, wash Post, it's not a replica, it's one of three total Eisenhower globes. No where in there is the word replica.
So are they lying about it being a replica, or is the replica priceless?
They lie compulsively. They lie when it doesn't even benefit them. There is really no reason to ever assume that they are not lying.
So he broke it and blamed the intern.
He probably tried to crack it open to see if there were any historic bottles of booze inside
probably could smell the whiskey and old cigars.
Look, he may not be good at much but if he smells booze in an old globe then by God I believe there's booze in that globe.
Pretty sure by the time Eisenhower got done with that globe, the fumes kinda just seeped in. he smells booze, alright, but it's the residue of a different time.
Nothing is sacred and nothing is safe from the looting.
The military globe. Sacred. Lmao.
An irreplaceable piece of US history. Next they'll be bulldozing parts of the whiteh... nevermind.
This perfectly describes the current government, everything they touch they break or everything they touch falls apart kinda sounds better.
Not even that. They had people to do it right, but they had fired them so they did a rush job themselves and fucked it up.
If it were fiction you'd call the author a hack.
They can't even move a stationary globe while not being fired upon. I wonder how they'll do in war? /s
Like something straight out of The Great Dictator. But that's just life in the Clown's Age.
Right up there with the orange painted cretin throwing White House sterling silverware in the trash
I hadn't heard that one, but not surprising at this point.
It's in Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's recent book.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/white-house-staff-reportedly-monitored-trumps-trash-because-he-was-sometimes-throwing-out-high-end-silverware/
What a lazy absolute disrespectful heathen. And recall how Republicans threw fits about things like the outgoing Clinton admin switching letters on keyboards at the White House...
DUI hire
The writers are just phoning it in now.
My bet on this is Hegseth commandeered it from the Smithsonian and broke it when he drunkenly showed it off.
I bet he broke it trying to figure out how to open it to get the booze inside and then got pissed when he realized it's just a globe.
Release the Epstein files FFS
These stupid monkeys wreck everything.
He was probably trying to flatten it as he knows the world isn’t really a globe.
Exactly zero people hired by the Trump administration can do their job right for better or worse.
"....while drunk and raving about a crusade"
Dude wishes he had a modicum of Ike’s rizz
Perhaps Pete could put some makeup on it ...
A shit show, in slow motion. What a buffoon.
"priceless and historic" ......is it? Like I get how some things can be but this is a globe. This isnt some relic or even an art piece
"relic" is open to interpretation. this was a near century old antique with provenance that no other item can claim. the craftsmanship, however, is not up for discussion. from that perspective, it was in fact an art piece that was appreciated by its craftsman, its original owner, and everyone who looked at it for the last 80 years.
"Relic" is unarguably applicable:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/relic
Priceless, absolutely. Historic, certainly. While the thing itself is not all that significant, this entire debacle is symbolic of the whole administration.