Former Trump appointee sees 'turbo-charged' leaks as key sign his administration is failing

President Donald Trump's war in Iran is quickly turning his second administration into his first in one key respect: the leaks.

Zeteo reported on Thursday that there is so much turmoil in Trump world that people are venting to the press on the record.

"The war has turbo-charged the amount of leaking and backbiting that senior Trump officials are conducting against one another. So many of them are truly freaked out. No one wants to be left holding the bag. But so few of them are willing to go after Mad King Donald and will keep waging his wars for him," the report said.

"Everything has gone to s——," Zeto quoted, "a once-buoyant Trump appointee," saying.

Among those catching the forehead-slapping reactions of Team Trump is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who current and former U.S. officials say is being referred to as "Dumb McNamara."

Bob McNamara was the former DOD secretary who exacerbated the Vietnam War. His "disastrous record" led to an escalation in the country, and he ultimately discovered that the war was unwinnable. He's now used as a kind of whipping boy for the failed the war.

While McNamara remained respected "as a brilliant, shrewd thinker," Zeteo characterized, "it is exceedingly hard to find anyone in the corridors of Washington power – or anywhere on the planet – who would label Hegseth a brilliant mind."

"Dumb McNamara" is spreading amid Hegseth's cheerleading of the war and soundbites like "we negotiate with bombs."

He added, "You have a choice, as we loiter over the top of Tehran."

His "overzealous bloodlust and enthusiasm for military fiasco ... reminds American officials of, well, a very stupid version of Robert McNamara."

The report said that Trump appears to want to shift blame to Hegseth as the disaster unfolds.

Trump said earlier this week, “Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. You said, ‘Let’s do it.’”

The non-stop flattery of the president and the repeated claims of "winning," will certainly link Trump to the war, but Zeteo said that "it’s easy to see the president’s Iran bloodbath getting framed as 'Hegseth’s war,'" especially the longer it goes on.