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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.
- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized "fat generals" at a meeting with over 800 military leaders, reflecting on America's obesity issue and military fitness standards.
- President Donald Trump supported Hegseth's push for new physical standards, including ending gender-specific fitness benchmarks during the meeting.
- Hegseth emphasized a merit-based system, stating, "the era of politically correct, overly sensitive don't-hurt-anyone's-feelings leadership ends right now at every level."
- During the meeting, Trump expressed that the US military must be strong and powerful enough to deter threats, asserting support for commanders while discussing morale-boosting objectives.
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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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