**AITA for Thinking Pete Hegseth’s Kentucky Campaign Stop Was Just a Long-Winded Excuse to Avoid Doing His Actual Job?**

AITA for thinking Pete Hegseth’s Kentucky campaign stop was just a long-winded excuse to avoid doing his actual job?

So the guy shows up in rural Kentucky in full camo—because nothing says “I’m a real American” like pretending you’re about to hunt down a deer in a Micro Center parking lot. He starts rambling about how the “coastal elites” are coming for everyone’s coal and bourbon (spoiler: he doesn’t own a coal plant or a distillery, but go off, king). Then he pulls out a shotgun and starts field-stripping it while talking about “securing the border,” which… okay, sure, that’s a metaphor, I guess. TL;DR: he gave a 45-minute speech about nothing, sold some branded “Hegseth for Freedom” hats that look like they were designed by a 2012 Call of Duty DLC, and then dipped without answering a single question about his actual platform. The crowd ate it up, obviously.

Anyway, AITA for thinking this whole thing was just a grift to sell merch and avoid his real job of being a Fox News talking head? Or is Kentucky actually the spiritual homeland of “hunting, freedom, and vaguely threatening vibes”?