{"id":663,"date":"2025-09-28T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:21:11","slug":"trump-to-attend-hegseths-gathering-of-military-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/trump-to-attend-hegseths-gathering-of-military-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to attend Hegseth's gathering of military leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump said Sunday he plans to attend a large gathering of top U.S. military leaders organized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth early this week.<\/p>\n

Trump described the gathering, which will reportedly include hundreds<\/a> of generals and admirals, to NBC News as “really just a very nice meeting talking about how well we\u2019re doing militarily, talking about being in great shape, talking about a lot of good, positive things.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some great people coming in and it\u2019s just an esprit de corps. You know the expression \u2018esprit de corps\u2019?” Trump told the network<\/a> in a phone interview. “That\u2019s all it\u2019s about. We\u2019re talking about what we\u2019re doing, what they\u2019re doing, and how we\u2019re doing.”<\/p>\n

The meeting, organized at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., is scheduled for Tuesday. The Washington Post, which first reported the gathering last week, said the order to attend the event went out on short notice and with no explanation.<\/p>\n

The Post, which first revealed Trump’s planned attendance<\/a> earlier Sunday, reported that the president’s appearance at the gathering adds additional security concerns, with the Secret Service now in charge of securing the event.<\/p>\n

An official familiar with the plans previously told NBC the meeting was meant for Hegseth to highlight the military’s accomplishments and outline the future of the Defense Department under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The sudden gathering of hundreds of military leaders stationed around the world in one location comes at a time when the Trump administration has taken an axe to senior military ranks while seeking to focus on what Hegseth regularly describes as a “warrior spirit.”<\/p>\n

Trump and Vice President Vance downplayed reports about the meeting<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually not unusual at all and I think it\u2019s odd that you guys have made it into such a big story,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s great when generals and top people want to come to the United States to be with our now-secretary of War,\u201d Trump said at the White House on Thursday, suggesting the generals would be “touring equipment sites” and “talking about the newest weapons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump said Sunday he plans to attend a large gathering of top U.S. military leaders organized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth early this week. Trump described the gathering, which will reportedly include hundreds of generals and admirals, to NBC News as “really just a very nice meeting talking about how well we\u2019re doing militarily, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}