Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Wednesday came up with an unexpected way of trying to describe a triangle as he called for cuts to the Defense Department.
And he name-checked a demon from the DC Universe in the process.
“We have to start in the Pentagon,” he said on Fox News as he advocated for budget cuts pushed by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. “We need to make a trigon, three sides instead of five sides, in the Pentagon.”
He called the Pentagon “way too big, way over-bloated” and urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to continue to “cut out all the bloat, and all the DEI, get our military back to a killing machine.”
It’s at least the second time Tuberville has referred to a triangle as a “trigon.”
He also did it last week when speaking to reporters as he suggested “taking it from a Pentagon to a Trigon” by cutting “a couple sides” from the building.
Critics noted that not only did he get the name of a basic shape wrong, he also inadvertently conjured up a powerful villain in the DC Universe: Trigon, a dimension-hopping demon and the “living embodiment of evil itself,” who frequently battles the Teen Titans.
Tuberville was given a free lesson in triangle vs Trigon on social media:
