Top military brass aren’t exactly excited about a bizarre “pep rally” with President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, political analyst David Rothkopf revealed on The Daily Beast Podcast.

Rothkopf, a foreign policy and national security commentator, predicted that the highly unusual all-hands meeting in Virginia on Tuesday won’t go down well based on his conversations with several generals, admirals, and other sources close to them.

“I can tell you: It is not going down well,” he told Daily Beast Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty. “This is seen as a waste of time, and it offends them at a pretty fundamental level.”

Hegseth, who prefers the moniker “Secretary of War,” stirred alarm and controversy last week when he ordered top U.S. military officials all over the globe to c

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