Pete Hegseth Spent Taxpayer Dollars Adding a Makeup Studio to the Pentagon

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In a small but noticeable update to Pentagon amenities, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered modest renovations to the green room adjacent to the Pentagon press briefing area, transforming it into a makeup prep studio for television appearances, according to reporting by CBS News.

The project, which reportedly cost several thousand dollars, included the installation of a director-style chair and a large mirror outfitted with professional makeup lighting. The room, which previously featured only sparse furnishings, now provides a functional space for officials preparing to go live on television.

The upgrade has raised some eyebrows given the traditionally austere tone of Pentagon operations, but a spokesperson emphasized the frugal nature of the project. “For this upgrade we were deliberately conservative and opted for several less expensive, on-hand materiel solutions,” the spokesperson said. Nonetheless, the studio was paid for by your taxpayer dollars.

Sources told CBS News that Hegseth, who has made appearances on Fox News from the Pentagon briefing room, is personally handling his own makeup and has not enlisted the services of a professional makeup artist. The defense official underscored that no taxpayer dollars were used for luxury services.

https://meidasnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-spent-taxpayer-dollars-adding-a-makeup-studio-to-the-pentagon-

Are you fucking kidding me?

[cbabe]

1. Somebody call in the doge boys.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Shady JD's gotta touch up that smokey-eye somewhere. . . .

[Phoenix61]

3. I keep thinking I'm reading the Onion, sadly I'm not. nt

[BOSSHOG]

4. Will lil Pete be performing

In New Orleans this summer?

[Mysterian]

5. Does SecDef use Cover Girl or Maybelline?

Pathetic.

[Faux pas]

6. Hypocritic

"white male excellence" at work SHEESH

[Chemical Bill]

7. .

[Silent Type]

8. Hegseth and top brass getting made up is laughable. With that said, our government needs to look their best, whether

lying to us, unloading bad news and failures, lying again, etc.

[Blue Owl]

9. Definitely cut from the same cloth as Dump

[LudwigPastorius]

10. It sounds crazy, but...

where the hell else is he going to find tactical mascara?

[rickyhall]

11. Is it a manly makeup studio for oximorons?

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12. 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.