BREAKING: Fox News just reported Pete Hegseth Sec of Navy John Phelan b/c he would not ignore a federal judge's orders!

[riversedge]

whow. this is Serious stuff!!

BREAKING: Fox News just reported that Pete Hegseth fired United States Secretary of the Navy John Phelan because Phelan would not ignore a federal judge's orders!

"Hegseth and Phelan reportedly butted heads when Phelan refused to ignore a recent federal judge’s ruling that said punishing Senator Mark Kelly for making a video which he reminded military officers of their constitutional duty to not to not follow illegal orders would violate his First Amendment rights."

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[Emile]

1. Pete Hegseth should be arrested and charged immediately.

[dave99]

16. should be shot and tossed on he highway

[BigMin28]

23. Mount the drunk

on a spike as a warning to others.

[reACTIONary]

45. Just his head.

[MarcoZandrini]

52. Where's.....

…..Vlad Tepis (Dracula) when you need him? /s

[AllaN01Bear]

35. ding. this.

[AZ8theist]

39. Road kill. I like it.

[Lifeafter70]

41. You know rfk jr will be there to harvest

Sunday dinner. With kids waiting in the car.

[AZ8theist]

47. With a dip in the cesspool after dinner!!

[Lifeafter70]

50. Lol

[happy feet]

55. THIS!

[malaise]

2. Oh My!

Get thee to the greatest page
Huge!

[aeromanKC]

3. Should be enough alone to impeach Hegseth.

[wnylib]

9. Is it possible to impeach a cabinet member?

[chowder66]

13. Yes. Dems already filed impeachment articles on April 15th. Doubt it will go anywhere due to the Republican clot.

[wnylib]

15. Thanks.

[EdmondDantes_]

14. Yes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/house-democrats-file-5-articles-154156541.html

In fact we were already trying to impeach him.

[wnylib]

17. Good, although the Fascist Party will obstruct it.

[senseandsensibility]

4. FAUX turning on the administration too?

Oh my. I also read that some of their "anchors" are not letting members of the administration blame everything on Biden anymore. Well, well, this could get interesting.

[Joinfortmill]

25. Ratings,are likely tanking. Whatever it takes.

[Callie1979]

32. Jennifer Griffin is one of the few actual journalists at Fox. Hegseth has insulted her too.

Watch this interaction by that prick.

[magicarpet]

5. Hegseth is an incorrigible dictatorial asshole in the same mold as his tyrannical dotard boss - djt.

[Ilsa]

6. I wonder how Kegsbreath would like getting his

veterans benefits stripped after violating his oath of office, the judge's orders, and the Constitution?

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Your headline no verb ? nt

[FadedMullet]

26. At least a verb (fired) and maybe more (petulantly, and in a small minded manner, did fire).

[Marcuse]

48. Another f-verb comes to mind.

[Wednesdays]

27. True that, although

...inserting ANY verb in the appropriate place would make sense.

[ShazzieB]

30. Right? It took me a while to figure out what was missing.

"Fox News just reported Pete Hegseth Sec of Navy John Phelan" doesn't any sense!

[Phoenix61]

8. Hmmm.. and an hour later Vance and Rubio are seen going to the White House.

Wonder if the bus is headed for Kegsbreath.

[Chasstev365]

10. Lock Him Up!

[Klarkashton]

11. Makes it even worse that fox has to choke this down.

Facts are facts.

[pwb]

12. Hegseth stop blowing your nose on our flag

you stuff in your pocket like a rag. Fuck off Punk.

[GiqueCee]

33. I don't think that...

... snot is what he's been wiping away with the Flag. Kegsbreath is a mutant Nazi wannabe. They hanged Nazis for less than what this sonofabitch is guilty of.

[SSJVegeta]

18. Sounds super illegal

[BattleRow]

19. Is this enough reason for treason?

[onenote]

29. No.

[Jimvanhise]

20. JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS FROM HIS MASTER

Hegseth just does what Trump tells him to, which is why this man with no real experience or talent was hired. Hegseth won't go against Trump even though Trump will eventually blame the Iran war on Hegseth.

[Fil1957]

21. Well of course. In this administration if you don't break the law you get canned.

[Joinfortmill]

22. When this is done, I want TRIALS!

[AllaN01Bear]

36. ding. this . on all of them including the orange dunkoff.

[AZJonnie]

24. I *knew* the original excuses from the WSJ and the regime were freaking BS

Kegsbreath jealous over Phelan's closeness w/IQ47, and IQ47 mad because Phelan didn't build him the battleships he wanted yet? PFFFFT!!!

I knew it had to do with illegal orders in some sense.

What a fucking clownshow this regime is

[progressoid]

28. Meanwhile MAGAs interpret this as an activist judge overreaching.

They ignore all the other issues in this scenario. Like Hegseth being a drunken bully. Or that Trump liked Phelan. etc.

[FakeNoose]

31. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan took an oath - he swore to uphold the US Constitution

What did Hegseth swear to uphold when he was sworn in? It wasn't the Constitution, apparently. Even the Repuke-MAGA business execs (which is how Mr. Phelan received his appointment) know the law better than Pete Hegseth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Phelan

[rzemanfl]

34. Nicolle Wallace just covered the firing

without a single word about this claim by Faux. WTF is going on?

[senseandsensibility]

37. CNN not covering it either

[rzemanfl]

40. What is Faux up to?

Sorting out the truth is exhausting.

[jmowreader]

38. I'm a little surprised

I was thinking more along the lines of “he was fired because he told the Nation’s Drunk he wouldn’t allow the Navy to commit war crimes like bombing desalination plants.”

[Ford_Prefect]

42. Sounds like a lawsuit in the making, no?

[AverageOldGuy]

43. NYT is reporting . . .

. . . that Trump fired Phelan because he told Trump that Trump's "battleship" could not be built.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-navy-secretary.html

President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships.

“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Mr. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.

Mr. Phelan’s job was to deliver the first of Mr. Trump’s battleships by 2028.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump fired Mr. Phelan, who had struggled to come up with a plan to deliver the ships on the nearly impossible timeline that Mr. Trump has demanded, senior defense and administration officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

. . . .

[Ray Bruns]

44. Having worked in the ship building industry for over 20, years,

Such a deadline would be a fantasy.

[AKwannabe]

46. Title does not match "headline".

Please check

[GoodRaisin]

49. Unreal. Kegbreath should be removed now. He is a fucking disgrace.

How long are Republicans going to turn a blind eye to this shitshow?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

51. Go home Hegseth

You're drunk again.

[Danascot]

53. Phelan is replaced by Acting Secretary of the Navy

Hung Cao; because his name makes trump giggle.

[DFW]

54. It sounds like they are daring Mark to announce a presidential run

They probably want him to announce his candidacy way too early, so that they have time to destroy him.

If so, they might as well not bother. Mark said a month ago that he had in no way decided on running, and that even if he did reach such a decision, any hint of it would not be made known for at least a year. I guess now, I’d have to say eleven months, since he told me this a month ago, but it’s not coming in 2026 in any case. Trump’s Breath should listen to more Tom Petty songs, specifically, “I Won’t Back Down.” Maybe men who are rock solid in their convictions are incomprehensible to men whose stances change every five minutes.

[OMGWTF]

56. The title is missing the most important word "FIRED".

I get that this is not a site with professional writers and editors, but so many people here don't actually read what they write.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. Trump's Dreams for a Battleship Led to His Navy Secretary's Ouster (NYT Gift Article)

The Navy secretary, John Phelan, was supposed to deliver the first of the president’s ships by 2028. The timeline was nearly impossible.

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-navy-secretary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dFA.-O4X.f4VsdDqaN8QD&smid=url-share

President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships.

“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Mr. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.

Mr. Phelan’s job was to deliver the first of Mr. Trump’s battleships by 2028.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump fired Mr. Phelan, who had struggled to come up with a plan to deliver the ships on the nearly impossible timeline that Mr. Trump has demanded, senior defense and administration officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.....

Presidents rarely pay close attention to military procurement, but Mr. Trump has spoken repeatedly about his plans for a new “Trump-class” battleship. In a February speech to soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., Mr. Trump insisted that he had helped design the new class of ships that bear his name......

In Mr. Trump’s imagination the new warship would be massive, weighing as much as 40,000 tons, and would be packed with new high-tech weapons, like lasers, hypersonic missiles and electric rail guns, most of which are still in development and years from being deployed.

In recent weeks, it had become clear to Mr. Phelan that the Navy and the U.S. shipbuilding industry did not have the ability to deliver on Mr. Trump’s vision. Mr. Phelan recently suggested to Mr. Trump that the Navy might have to rely on European shipyards to deliver the battleships on the ambitious timeline Mr. Trump was demanding, senior military and administration officials said.

Mr. Trump rejected the suggestion.

Battleships are not practical or effective in today's world. trump wanted magical battleships that bore his name and fired Phelan for promising these magical battleships and not delivering.

[Martin68]

58. Fired for refusing to break the law.