President Donald Trump’s inner circle has never been short on flattery — but this latest display of devotion took things to a whole new level.

At a conservative awards show Thursday night, one of Trump’s top officials tried a little too hard to hype up his boss, retelling an old story meant to make Trump sound commanding. But somewhere between the awkward pauses and bizarre sound effects, the performance went off the rails for viewers online.

The moment came during the Fox Nation “Patriot Awards” in New York, when the Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stumbled through a rambling story about Trump’s supposed decisiveness during a military strike.

“That moment we realized that our bombers were out of Iran and the bombs had hit the target, and the world didn’t knew,” Hegseth said a

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