Transcript of Acting SECNAV's recent 1MC remarks to the crew of Theodore Roosevelt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

This has to be fake. I can't find a second source. Can anyone verify this?

No one would talk like this.

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

Oh my God. To be so tone deaf that you read this aloud to the crew on shipwide speakers, then get in a dig at partisan media to satisfy the Dear Leader, must be a wonderful privilege. Right,
@SECNAV
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Transcript of Acting SECNAV's recent 1MC remarks to the crew of Theodore Roosevelt. (He's aboard.) Long story short, he's convinced he did the right thing.

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Ward Carroll, U.S. Naval Institute

[2naSalit]

1. I wonder...

What if the entire Navy staged a mutiny?

[BusyBeingBest]

2. Long story short, the acting SECNAV has made this political and has

bashed the captain in front of his men and women onboard, which is unbelievably gross behavior. I guess he got angry/jealous that Crozier's people loved him and had faith in him, or Donnie Dump did, and so he had to set them straight. This is sickening.

[Coventina]

3. There are some real boneheaded grammatical errors in that.

Did Trump write it?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Yeah, that. Still no second source.

Thanks for writing.

[SharonClark]

5. For what it's worth, National Review is reporting it

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/acting-navy-secretary-lambastes-ousted-captain-in-speech-to-sailors-on-his-former-ship/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. It seems I was wrong.

Acting Navy secretary blasts ousted aircraft carrier captain as 'stupid' in address to ship's crew

Acting Navy secretary blasts ousted aircraft carrier captain as 'stupid' in address to ship's crew

By Barbara Starr, Evan Perez and Ryan Browne, CNN

Updated 10:51 AM ET, Mon April 6, 2020

[ck4829]

7. Sounds like he ran this by Trump who made a few suggestions of his own

[cwydro]

8. The junior high school bullies are running this nation.

Unreal.

[crickets]

9. Well, there's a morale booster. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Mr. Modly did not tour the ship; practically no one, especially in the lower ranks, even saw him.

David Fahrenthold Retweeted

"Mr. Modly did not tour the ship, and practically no one, especially those in the lower ranks, even saw him. He was gone in less than 30 minutes."

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[jmowreader]

11. Mr. Modly couldn't have "toured the ship" after that speech

Aircraft carriers are not safe spaces for acting secretaries of defense who call the carriers’ beloved captains “stupid or naive.”