Pete Hegseth ist eine Katastrophe von einem Verteidigungsminister. Kein Wunder: Der ehemalige Fox-Moderator hat die Öffentlichkeit in die Irre geführt, für Gewalt gebetet und ist mit der Presse aneinandergeraten. Dies ist kein ernsthafter Militärführer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/10/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary

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  1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

    From the article:

    >Hegseth, by contrast, exudes loyalty.

    >Ever since his confirmation early last year, we have been seeing the results, but never more so than in recent weeks.

    >Pete Hegseth is imbuing violence with a religious righteousness

    >A recent Guardian editorial offered this scathing description: “Glorying repulsively in his capacity to order death and destruction from the Pentagon, Mr. Hegseth, an Evangelical Christian, has presented Operation Epic Fury as a 21st-century crusade to ‘break the teeth of the ungodly’.”

    >Hegseth’s public prayers for violence without mercy even earned a rare (if indirect) rebuke from Pope Leo.

    >Perhaps most dangerous of all, Hegseth reportedly lies about military realities – including to the president.

    >“Pete is not speaking truth to the president. As a result, the president is out there repeating misleading information,” one administration official told the Washington Post.

    >Hegseth claimed at a news conference last month that Iran’s missile and drone programs were being “overwhelmingly destroyed”. But more trustworthy sources (like a US intelligence assessment reported by CNN) say otherwise.

    >He also regularly misleads citizens, through his preening news conferences and public statements.

  2. trump and all of his clowns are a complete and utter circus so no surprises there.

  3. No shit, anyone with half a brain could have told you this long before he became sec def.

    The whole admin is full of wildly unserious people. They *think* they’re serious though, in much the same way that a 3-year-old *thinks* they’re being serious when they make ridiculously unreasonable demands of their parents. These folks are caricatures of what they think their base thinks strong/smart/powerful people are. Truly serious people have a hard time containing their laughter and ridicule at these shmucks.

  4. No_big_whoop on

    Intelligent, serious, qualified people want no part of Trump’s sleazy clown show

  5. N3wAfrikanN0body on

    MAGAts don’t want seriousness.

    They want to be rewarded for being stars in a reality tv ahow.

    That they complain when their actions have consequces that are long lasting or fatal(especially to themselves) remains their deliberate FAILURE.

  6. returnofthecursed on

    It was obvious from the beginning that Hegseth is a militant Christian nationalist.

    His fucking book is titled „American Crusade“, for Christ’s sake. The tattoos, the rhetoric, the church he attends, it’s all very obvious that he’s an extremist militant Christian nationalist. He wants his version of biblical law in America, and he wants to spread it worldwide, and he wants to do it with violence.

    >Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.

    These are the words of a murderous psycho.

  7. chesterforbes on

    Who would have guessed that putting a Fox News weekend host in one of the top positions of the US government would end in disaster? That’s almost as silly as election the host of a reality tv show as president. But no one is stupid enough to do that

  8. Lemp_Triscuit11 on

    Hegseth couldn’t have gotten hired at a security guard at my job; fucking terrifying what he’s in charge of lol

  9. Overall_Curve6725 on

    Unqualified alcoholic part time weekend only Fox and friends co-host. The perfect twit to run the Dept of defense

  10. Freddy-Borden on

    He’s not even a serious person, much less “serious military leader”. He was a Fox News WEEKEND Host. Let that sink in…he wasn’t even good enough for a nightly spot on Fox News…but Trump gave him control of the largest military in the world.

    Wear your red hats proudly, MAG sycophants, this is your legacy.

  11. MarcusQuintus on

    He’s performing exactly as expected.
    The real disaster is Congress giving him the votes.

  12. Appropriate_Mess_350 on

    No kidding. He’s an adolescent man-child masquerading as a tough guy.
    In the process, he is enriching himself and putting both American soldiers and civilians in grave danger of inevitable retaliation. Which he desperately wants to use as a means of strengthening the autocracy and further enriching himself.

  13. lastskudbook on

    And he’ll get sacked right before he has to justify himself.
    These people aren’t stupid, it’s the plan,do Trumps dirty work you’ll get the insider stock/crypto gains and get sacked before any reckoning comes worst case scenario is a pardon.

  14. cajgolfer87 on

    Elect a clown, expect a circus. Did anyone expect Trump to pick serious leaders for the various departments in the US government? He picked loyalists that will do whatever he says.

  15. His method of “fake it till you make it” is to talk like a pastor by using pauses and fake emotionality to try and make a bunch of BS more palatable.

  16. HoraceGrantGlasses on

    Remember when he was in an entire room full of serious military leaders, said all his nonsense, and all those serious military leaders kept following him? Where are all the honor bound, oath keeping, disciplined military leaders we were told existed?

  17. ExternalJumpy6264 on

    He clashed with the press? THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED. All good politicians bow and scrape to the press.

  18. Double-Show-2625 on

    The whole Administration is full of incompetent unqualified dumb assholes… What a fucking circus 🤡

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