Not the Onion... Whiskey Pete installs makeup studio in Pentagon

[Tanuki]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8d&linkId=804289612

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News.

The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars, according to two of the sources, at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures.

"Changes and upgrades to the Pentagon Briefing Room are nothing new and routinely happen during changes in an administration," a Defense Department spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News.

Hegseth, before becoming defense secretary, was a morning show co-host on Fox News' "Fox & Friends Weekend." Since his nomination, he has vowed to emphasize improvements in the armed forces' warfighting abilities and military readiness."... (more)

[Nittersing]

1. Where's the bar gonna go? nt

[dweller]

2. Bet it has

A minibar



✌🏻

[Bluestocking]

3. Well it is a clown show

[Chasstev365]

4. OMFG!!!

Maybe he wind sails?
Wears a Tan Suit?
Orders Djion mustard on a burger?
Drives a yellow Corvette?

Can you imagine if a Secretary of Defense in a Democratic administration did this? Fox wouldn't never stop talking about his being Metrosexual.

[riversedge]

5. I first thought it was the ONION!

[Ilsa]

6. All hat, no cattle.

It's all about how you look on TV, not whether you are qualified or know what you're doing. Typical trump shitshow. Appearance over substance.

[FSogol]

7. Rum and coke. And make my jaw look square!

[rubbersole]

18. And hold the Coke.

[Codifer]

28. Snort!

What an odd word when pronounced over and over when stoned.

[Norbert]

34. It MUST be vodka.

Putie can get him a special deal.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Thing can be upgraded, too.

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After the Cabinet applies the 25th Amendment, new President Couchhumper will access bespoke eyeliner refills from convenient wall-mounted dispensers.

[2naSalit]

9. And his...

Mistress now has the title of official makeup artist.

[milestogo]

10. I think his leadership needs more that a little makeup touchup.

[Starbeach]

11. Makeup Wholesale

These 3 clowns - Don, JD and Pete - need to band together and get group rates for makeup. On track to blow a hole in the budget.

[Demovictory9]

12. Lol

[Dave Bowman]

13. Lipstick on a pig?

[wolfie001]

14. These are his priorities

In keeping with the bloated, 290lb cult leader. Also, a Nazi-Tattoo parlor soon to follow.

[k55f5r]

15. Nothing says WARFIGHTER like eyeshadow

and pancaked cheeks.

[Ping Tung]

16. Good! There was always a crush for sinks and mirrors when applying our eyeliner

[MLWR]

17. "WASTE, FRAUD and ABUSE"

Your tax dollars at work.

[struggle4progress]

19. Pete's kickass spray-on tan will blind you to his inability to pass the new physical

and his total disregard for national security!

[jmowreader]

20. Hang on for a second...

They didn't already have one?

[ShazamIam]

21. Can we guess the studio includes a discreet liquor cabinet? nt

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Edit to correct discrete to discreet.

[soldierant]

25. Discrete? or discreet? or both?

Incidentally, I'm almost 80, and I can remember when women's makeup was disparagingly and misogynistically referred to as "war paint."

[ShazamIam]

35. I meant discreet of course, thanks for the nice way you corrected me.

[soldierant]

36. Well, you actually could have meant something like

distinctly separated from the bar (possibly so the makeup wouldn't get into the booze. That would taste terrible.) So it could have been both - or either.

I do try not to be ugly.

[rubbersole]

22. Finally, Pete is reaching out to the rank and file...

...by leading by example. A whole new meaning to "keeping your powder dry".

[SupportSanity]

23. Makeup.....Yeah, that's the ticket!

Pour me another.

You can leave the bottle.

[dchill]

24. He probably needs it to touch up after bad nights...

...and good afternoons.

[tanyev]

26. That's what happens when you pick your Secretary of Defense from Central Casting.

😒

[skypilot]

27. "The idea for improving the space..

...came from Tami Radabaugh...Sean Parnell...and Jennifer Hegseth..."

Already preemptively throwing others under the bus.

[rsdsharp]

29. What shade of pancake does a "war fighter" wear?

[odins folly]

30. This is the ass crack

Who said he was going to enforce grooming standards and fitness standards to reenforce that the US military is a war fighting machine.

With men wearing makeup....

Fuck that guy....

[MadameButterfly]

31. I guess he thinks he'll be around long enough

to use it?

[Javaman]

32. yet another preening jackass.

it's all about image and no substance.

we are so fucked.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Trump and his regime are the most fake, made-up, overly feminized group of humans since King Louis XVI

Given that Hegseth's sole and only qualification for being Defense Secretary is that he is a pretty face, this addition makes sense.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. Maddow Blog-Pete Hegseth's reported new makeup studio at the Pentagon gives away the game

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A new report reinforces concerns that Hegseth's job is to effectively play the role of defense secretary on television.

On the one hand, Pete Hegseth talks a lot about "lethality" and a "warrior ethos."

On the other hand, he and his DOD invest a ridiculous amount of energy into scrubbing websites, banning books, and creating a new makeup studio for his TV appearances. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-04-24T13:06:56.326Z

On the one hand, Pete Hegseth talks a lot about "lethality" and a "warrior ethos."

On the other hand, he and his DOD invest a ridiculous amount of energy into scrubbing websites, banning books, and creating a new makeup studio for his TV appearances.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pete-hegseths-reported-new-makeup-studio-pentagon-gives-away-game-rcna202751

For all of Hegseth’s reported interest in “lethality” and championing a hypermasculine “warrior ethos,” in recent months, he and the Pentagon have invested a ridiculous amount of time in pursuing petty culture war goals that don’t advance the nation’s national security goals in any way.

It was against this backdrop that CBS News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News. The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars, according to two of the sources, at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures.

While Hegseth described the report as a “totally fake story,” a Defense Department spokesperson made no effort to deny the accuracy of the report, instead describing the modification as a “routine” upgrade. A Pentagon spokesperson also said the new space will be available to others, not just the secretary. (The CBS report has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News.)

The story stood out for me, not just because of the degree to which it defies Hegseth’s rhetoric about a “warrior ethos,” but also because of what we’re learning about his role on Donald Trump’s team. Indeed, the president chose a television personality to lead the Pentagon, so it stands to reason that he’d want a new makeup studio.

By all appearances, his job isn’t to serve an administrative role, overseeing one of the planet’s largest and most complex bureaucracies; his job is to effectively play the role of defense secretary on TV, saying words like “tough” and “strength” on Fox News as Trump nods along while watching.

Hegseth is less of a cabinet secretary and more of a camera-ready performer. He’s able to keep his job — at least for now — not through competent governance, but rather by responding to the CBS News report by publishing a tweet that read in part, “We should have installed tampon machines in every men’s bathroom at DoD instead — the leftist ‘news’ media would have loved that.”

.....As the week began, the political world was warned that damaging new allegations about Hegseth were on the way. Those warnings were correct.