{"id":7079,"date":"2025-05-13T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:45:17","slug":"pete-hegseth-accidentally-challenges-houthis-to-game-of-imessage-cup-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/pete-hegseth-accidentally-challenges-houthis-to-game-of-imessage-cup-pong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Accidentally Challenges Houthis to Game of iMessage Cup Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WASHINGTON\u2014New leaks from the Pentagon have revealed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accidentally sent an invitation to play a round of Game Pigeon Cup Pong to the Yemen-based Houthi rebels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In what a spokesman for the Department of Defense is calling, \u201ca completely understandable and tactically secure wrong-number mix-up,\u201d Hegseth reportedly attempted to challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a friendly game of Cup Pong, but mistakenly contacted the Houthis instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through an intermediary, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shady Dealer <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was able to gain access to a transcript of Hegseth\u2019s aborted chat with the rebels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Messages from Pete Hegseth to Houthis:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:03pm: Marco bro this cabinet meeting is so boring lets play Cup Pong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:04pm: [Hegseth sends an invitation to play Cup Pong]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:08pm: O shit wrong #<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a brief statement to reporters, Hegseth insisted his actions were intentional: \u201cI undertook a strategic action to assess enemy capabilities in striking long-range cup-shaped targets with high-caliber spherical ordinance. As Secretary of Defense, I must be constantly searching for new ways to ensure American military dominance on land, at sea, in the air, and in the groupchat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an apparent attempt to deflect further questions, Mr. Hegseth pretended to take a phone call, but wound up accidentally dialling Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Houthi leader <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din declared that the group would respond to the \u201cimperialist aggression\u201d of America\u2019s government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlready,\u201d said al-Din, \u201cWe are formulating plans to confuse and confound the Americans with a fiendish game of Word Hunt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what a spokesman for the Department of Defense is calling, \u201ca completely understandable and tactically secure wrong-number mix-up,\u201d Hegseth reportedly attempted to challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a friendly game of Cup Pong, but mistakenly contacted the Houthis instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":7081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}