US EditionTrump, Hegseth to address top US commanders at secretive Quantico meeting
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urged a cultural reset focusing on fitness and loyalty, with Trump emphasizing a stronger military amid criticism over the meeting's cost and security risks.
- President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addressed over 800 senior U.S. military officers at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, during a secretive and unscheduled meeting.
- Hegseth emphasized a restoration of traditional military values and criticized past military policies perceived as 'woke,' while outlining new directives, including gender-neutral physical fitness standards.
- Trump remarked that the meeting focused on military performance and morale, while also emphasizing the strength of U.S. nuclear capabilities.
- Critics, including military officials, have questioned the necessity and cost of the meeting, which some described as a political event rather than a military briefing.
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Hegseth Quantico Fiasco Included 70-Minute Ramble from Self-Absorbed Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told military leaders Tuesday that “it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look. It is bad, and it’s not who we are.” He then yielded the stage to the third heaviest commander-in-chief in history, Donald Trump, who demonstrated his unfitness for command with an embarrassing stream-of-consciousness r…
Trump Jokingly Threatens U.S. Military Leaders After They Don't Applaud Him In Alarming Speech
MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's fragile ego took another hit Tuesday. The current POTUS and the former Fox News weekend host, reported alcoholic, and alleged abuser of women that Trump made Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, took the unprecedented step of forcing all of the United States military's top brass to gather in one room just to hear Hegseth and Trump speak.Almost 800 generals, admirals, and their senior enlisted leaders from …
Trump: US cities should be military ‘training grounds’
What happenedPresident Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Tuesday addressed hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals hastily summoned from around the world to a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Hegseth said he planned to toughen physical fitness and grooming standards and root out “fat generals” and “woke” ideologies that he claimed hamstrung the military’s lethality. Trump said he wanted the military to fight the “enemy withi…
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