Pete Hegseth Archives

Trump’s Trroop Deployment Costing Hundreds of Millions

June 11, 2025 Buck Banks

$134 million

After persistent questioning about the cost of sending National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration raids, Hegseth turned to his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who said it would cost $134 million, the Associated Press reports.

Susan Rice: Hegseth Is ‘Dumb as a Rock’

April 28, 2025 Buck Banks

“Well, if you’re a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as secretary of Defense. That’s apparently what we’ve learned from this episode.”

— Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice bucked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s intelligence following weeks of scrutiny over leaks at the Pentagon amid massive spending reductions at the Department of Defense, The Hill reports.

Fewer than 1 in 5 Support Hegseth for Defense Secretary

January 15, 2025 Buck Banks

19%

A new AP-NORC poll finds just 19% of Americans approve of Pete Hegseth being nominated as the secretary of defense.

Drunkenness Is Not a Disqualifier for Republicans

January 15, 2025 Buck Banks

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their jobs? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have.”

— Sen. Markwayne Mullen (R-OK), quoted by the Daily Beast, defending Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth.

Davis: Hegseth’s Faults Qualify Him to Be a Senator

December 9, 2024 Buck Banks

“Let’s get this straight: Pete Hegseth used to drink too much and couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. He’d make a great senator.”

— Former GOP Senate aide Mike Davis, on X, suggesting senators operate with a moral double standard.

Hegseth Vows Not to Drink on the Job

December 7, 2024 Buck Banks

“This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I’m doing it.”

— Pete Hegseth, pledging to Megan Kelly to not drink alcohol while serving as defense secretary.

Of Course, She’s from Wyoming …

December 3, 2024 Buck Banks

“Are soldiers sometimes wild childs? Yeah, that can happen.”

— Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), quoted by NBC News, on Pete Hegseth’s nomination of to be Defense Secretary.

In Trumplandia Denial Really Ain’t Just a River in Egypt

December 3, 2024 Buck Banks

The author of an email critical of Fox News host-turned-Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth threatened New Yorker writer Jane Mayer that “if you print that, I will deny I wrote it,” and when Mayer reminded him “that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses,” the author wrote, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”

Tag: Pete Hegseth

Trump’s Trroop Deployment Costing Hundreds of Millions

$134 million

After persistent questioning about the cost of sending National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration raids, Hegseth turned to his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who said it would cost $134 million, the Associated Press reports.

Susan Rice: Hegseth Is ‘Dumb as a Rock’

“Well, if you’re a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as secretary of Defense. That’s apparently what we’ve learned from this episode.”

— Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice bucked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s intelligence following weeks of scrutiny over leaks at the Pentagon amid massive spending reductions at the Department of Defense, The Hill reports.

Fewer than 1 in 5 Support Hegseth for Defense Secretary

19%

A new AP-NORC poll finds just 19% of Americans approve of Pete Hegseth being nominated as the secretary of defense.

Drunkenness Is Not a Disqualifier for Republicans

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their jobs? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have.”

— Sen. Markwayne Mullen (R-OK), quoted by the Daily Beast, defending Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth.

Davis: Hegseth’s Faults Qualify Him to Be a Senator

“Let’s get this straight: Pete Hegseth used to drink too much and couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. He’d make a great senator.”

— Former GOP Senate aide Mike Davis, on X, suggesting senators operate with a moral double standard.

Hegseth Vows Not to Drink on the Job

“This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I’m doing it.”

— Pete Hegseth, pledging to Megan Kelly to not drink alcohol while serving as defense secretary.

Of Course, She’s from Wyoming …

“Are soldiers sometimes wild childs? Yeah, that can happen.”

— Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), quoted by NBC News, on Pete Hegseth’s nomination of to be Defense Secretary.

In Trumplandia Denial Really Ain’t Just a River in Egypt

— The New Yorker

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Charlie Sykes

“The president of the United States didn’t give us an assignment. We’re not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I’m a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinites.”

— Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), talking to reporters.

— Harry Enten

Numerati

33%

“The volume of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—the means by which most Canadians visit—dropped by 33% last month compared to June 2024, following a 38% drop in May,” Forbes reports.

53%

A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.

$1.6 billion

President Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims, Forbes reports.

58%

$3.3 trillion