Nostradamus, He Ain't: Bill Kristol Faceplants on His Own Rake With Pete Hegseth Prediction

When any 'scandal' pops up involving conservatives, real or imagined, one thing we can always be sure of is that the left will go WAY too far in trying to force-feed it into the minds of every American. They will take a situation that could be politically advantageous to them and overplay it so egregiously that, generally, voters just get sick of them speaking and want them to shut up.

It is no different with 'Signal-gate,' a relatively minor mistake from National Security Advisor Mike Waltz that Democrats have tried to turn into Teapot Dome. They are so desperate to make it into a huge story ('We've got Trump THIS time!') that we're thinking it's time to call in Rachel McAdams from Mean Girls to inform them that it's simply not going to happen.

And when it comes to leftists overplaying their hand, there is no zealot like a convert.

Take Bill Kristol, for example. The founder of The Weekly Standard, Kristol once liked to fashion himself as a leading conservative thinker. However, over the years, it became clear that he only valued starting new wars, not any actual conservative principles. This inevitably led to his hatred of Donald Trump and now to his current status as an older, chubbier Rachel Maddow.

Naturally, Kristol just HAD to weigh in on the Signal story and, in usual Kristol fashion, did so with a grandiose prediction on Twitter three days ago.

A prediction that turned out as well for him as when he said that 'sometimes a balloon is just a balloon.'

Prediction: Hegseth gone by Friday.

Dunno re replacement. Cotton?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 26, 2025

Just to catch everyone up on Pete Hegseth's status, now that it is Saturday, he is, in fact, still the Secretary of Defense under President Trump. Not only that, but there hasn't been a whisper, even from the media's favorite 'anonymous sources,' of Trump even considering asking for Hegseth's resignation (or one from Waltz).

It's the close of business, Friday, 28 March, in the Year of Our Lord 2025. And the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America is still Peter Brian Hegseth.

Looks like you're learning this the hard way Bill, but Infantrymen on a mission don't fall that easily. https://t.co/OvomYr8o0o
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) March 28, 2025

It's pretty revealing that all of the actual warfighters are on Hegseth's side, while Kristol's team consists pretty exclusively of defense industry lobbyists.

Hey @BillKristol, your post below aged like milk.

Must suck to be wrong all the time. https://t.co/f2ZTuEiITj
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) March 28, 2025

Aged like milk left out in the hot sun during summer.