RFK Jr. and Pete Hegseth filming their “Pete and Bobby Challenge”Donald Trump’s latest is the Cracker Barrel-style idea to rename the Defense Department the “War Department.” Though I want to ridicule it, the rebrand hints at a bedrock view of the administration: that success is downstream from appearances. Take Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — or in Trump’s words, the “Secretary of War.” The jumping jackass can’t stop preening in workout photo-ops. On his first day as Secretary, Hegseth identified physical fitness as his top priority, linking looking good with military readiness. As with the broken windows theory, spruce up the outward appearances and everything else will just fall into place. One last irony is that I actually agree that “Department of War” is a more honest name.