{"id":46670,"date":"2026-03-26T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/pete-hegseth-accidentally-reveals-unusual-doodle-on-sensitive-iran-paper\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:52:00","slug":"pete-hegseth-accidentally-reveals-unusual-doodle-on-sensitive-iran-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/pete-hegseth-accidentally-reveals-unusual-doodle-on-sensitive-iran-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth accidentally reveals unusual doodle on sensitive Iran paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Secretary of War <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/media\/pete-hegseth\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b2b89900-292f-11f1-98c3-858ab1377202\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> revealed a mysterious drawing in his notepad during President Trump&#8217;s Cabinet meeting early this morning: a large squiggle.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre doodle raised eyebrows, as it appears parts of his speech was scratched out. But the Secretary&#8217;s words were far more pointed than his pen.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering his speech on the ongoing conflict with <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b2c4f510-292f-11f1-98c3-858ab1377202\">Iran<\/a>, Hegseth declared that &#8216;Operation Epic Fury is not an endless war,&#8217; but rather a &#8216;decisive campaign&#8217; that has already left the Iranian military &#8216;in shambles.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Never in recorded history has a nation&#8217;s military been so quickly and effectively neutralized,&#8217; Hegseth told the Cabinet. &#8216;Overnight, not only do they not have a navy&#8230; they no longer have a navy commander.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Eagle-eyed observers have long scavenged for clues in the margins of Cabinet notebooks and body-language, desperate for a glimpse into the administration&#8217;s true agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But while Hegseth&#8217;s &#8216;secret squiggle&#8217; remains a nondescript enigma, it follows a trail of high-stakes paper scraps.<\/p>\n<p>Most famously, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparked <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15175145\/Trump-preparing-Middle-East-visit-Gaza-peace-deal-close.html\">a media firestorm<\/a> in October when he dramatically interrupted a White House summit to hand President Trump an urgent, handwritten note regarding the Gaza peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was just given a note by the Secretary of State saying that we&#8217;re very close to a deal in the Middle East, and they&#8217;re going to need me pretty quickly,&#8217; Trump told reporters gathered at the roundtable on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed a mysterious drawing in his notepad during President Trump&#8217;s Cabinet meeting early this morning: a large squiggle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Delivering his speech on the ongoing conflict with Iran, Hegseth declared that &#8216;Operation Epic Fury is not an endless war,&#8217; but rather a &#8216;decisive campaign&#8217; that has already left the Iranian military &#8216;in shambles&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8216;Never in recorded history has a nation&#8217;s military been so quickly and effectively neutralized,&#8217; Hegseth told the Cabinet. &#8216;Overnight, not only do they not have a navy&#8230; they no longer have a navy commander&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At another Cabinet meeting back in late January, Trump&#8217;s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff passed a written note to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. &#8216;Putin&#8217; was the only word that could be made out in the scribbled text<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Eagle-eyed observers have long scavenged for clues in the margins of Cabinet notebooks and body-language, desperate for a glimpse into the administration&#8217;s true agenda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The frantically scrawled note was caught on camera. It read: &#8216;Very close. We need you to approve a post on Truth Social soon, so you can announce the deal first.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At another Cabinet meeting back in late January,<span>Trump&#8217;s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff passed a written note to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. &#8216;Putin&#8217;<\/span>was the only word that could be made out in the scribbled text.<\/p>\n<p>During the briefing today, Hegseth didn&#8217;t hold back against the journalists in the room, accusing the press of ignoring the mission&#8217;s reality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You wouldn&#8217;t know it if you listened to the dishonest hate-Trump media,&#8217; Hegseth said. &#8216;Behind every fake news story, there&#8217;s an F-35 pilot executing a dangerous mission. My message to the media is, get it right.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the press was working &#8216;hand in glove&#8217; with Democrats, just as they did during the Iraq surge in 2007. &#8216;It&#8217;s the same old pirate playbook, TDS [Trump Derangement syndrome] in your DNA,&#8217; he added, &#8216;but the hard-working, God-fearing, patriotic Americans out there know better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In a particularly fiery moment, Hegseth linked the current targets of US airstrikes to the previous administration, claiming the US is now paying to destroy what it once &#8216;funded.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Many of the Iranian military factories and bases that we&#8217;re systematically destroying were paid for by the pallets of American cash that Barack Obama flew into Tehran,&#8217; Hegseth claimed. &#8216;You might call it an inconvenient truth. Iran took our money and turned it into weapons and bunkers and ammo, and now we&#8217;re destroying those weapons.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the range of Iranian missiles, Hegseth issued a stark warning to the international community. After noting that Iranian missiles recently targeted a location 4,000 kilometers away, he pointed out the proximity of major Western capitals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To the world, I say, London is 4,000 kilometers from Iran. Washington, D.C. is 3,300 kilometers from Venezuela,&#8217; he noted, suggesting the global reach of the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth concluded by making it clear that while the administration &#8216;prays for a deal,&#8217; the military pressure will not let up until Iran&#8217;s offensive capabilities are dismantled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed a mysterious drawing in his notepad during President Trump&#8217;s Cabinet meeting early this morning: a large squiggle. The bizarre doodle raised eyebrows, as it appears parts of his speech was scratched out. But the Secretary&#8217;s words were far more pointed than his pen. Delivering his speech on the ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}