Senior Pentagon spokesman launches into the game of your mother’s childish response

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s top press aide is criticizing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s childish name-calling game, telling News themezone that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wore a tie that looked like the Russian flag because “your mom bought it for him.”

Hegseth wore the tie during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House on Friday, earning praise from a top adviser to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the official Russian news agency, TASS, because its red, white and blue stripes match the pattern of Russia’s flag.

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When News themezone asked Hegseth’s aides whether he was aware of Russia’s praise and whether he had worn the tie before, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell responded with the prepared statement: “Your mom bought it for him, and it’s a patriotic American tie, you moron.”

News themezone then followed up with a question about whether Hegseth, who frequently wears clothing made from pieces of American insignia, knew the American flag code, which states in part: “The flag should never be used as clothing, bedding or curtains.”

Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson responded to this with the following statement: “If loving one’s country enough to represent it from head to toe is a crime in the eyes of the leftist blog known as News themezone, then hold Secretary Hegseth guilty. He is a patriot who reveres this country and our flag.”

Leavitt responded to a question from News themezone last week about Budapest as the site of the next meeting between Trump and Putin about their invasion, given the city’s history as the site where Russia promised in 1994 not to invade Ukraine if it handed over the 1,200 nuclear weapons it inherited after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Putin broke that promise starting in 2014 and, to this day, massacres Ukrainians in their homes with near-nightly drone and missile attacks.

News themezone asked Leavitt and White House Communications Director Steven Cheung who chose Budapest. Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and Cheung responded a minute later with, “Your mom.”