In a rare moment of honesty on CNN, Republican strategist Scott Jennings dropped a truth bomb Tuesday night that the Biden media complex would rather bury: when the Trump administration makes a mistake, they own it. When Biden botches an operation so badly it results in the deaths of American troops, no one is held accountable — and the media pretends it never happened.
Jennings was speaking about the now-infamous Signal group chat where top Trump administration officials, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, discussed a retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. Somehow, Atlantic editor-in-chief and longtime Trump-hater Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to the group. He claims he saw minute-by-minute details of an upcoming strike. Hegseth says no war plans were shared. The truth likely lies somewhere in between.
But here’s the real story: instead of hiding it or denying it, the Trump team acknowledged the mistake and moved quickly to fix it. As Jennings put it, “The White House is able to acknowledge a mistake, say they’re going to learn from it, say they’re trying to figure out the technical issues that led to it.” Imagine that — actual accountability from a presidential administration. It’s almost unthinkable in the age of Biden, where disaster after disaster is met with a shrug and a lie.
Jennings praised Trump for not throwing his team under the bus, but also for delivering a firm course correction. Trump reportedly told reporters, “He’s a good man, but he learned a lesson,” referring to Waltz. That’s leadership — not scapegoating, not denial, but real leadership. A private conversation, a hard talk, and a lesson learned. Compare that to Joe Biden’s shameful handling of Afghanistan.
Let’s never forget what happened in August 2021: thirteen brave American servicemembers, most of them Marines, were killed during Biden’s botched withdrawal from Kabul. A suicide bomber detonated outside Abbey Gate while American troops were left exposed thanks to Biden’s decision to abandon Bagram Air Base and trust the Taliban with perimeter security. And what did Biden do? He called it a “success.” He looked his watch during the dignified transfer of remains at Dover. And worst of all, he claimed no American troops died under his watch — a lie as insulting as it is absurd.
The families of the fallen have been begging for accountability. They’ve been ignored. No one was fired. No one resigned. And the Biden administration, true to form, simply moved on.
So yes, when Jennings says it’s “refreshing” to see Trump’s team acknowledge a mistake and pledge to fix it, he’s right. In the Biden era, where weakness is sold as wisdom and accountability is extinct, it is refreshing — and a reminder that real leadership looks a whole lot different.
America deserves a Commander-in-Chief who treats military life as sacred, not expendable. We had that once. We can have it again.
