Pete Hegseth wildly claims Iran strike is most complex military operation ever: 'What about D-Day?

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Source: irishstar.com




Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wildly claimed that Donald Trump's airstrikes on Iran were "the most complex and secretive military operation in history." X users slammed that claim

Jeremiah Hassel U.S. News Reporter Updated 09:03 ET, 26 Jun 2025


Seemingly in a panic, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that Donald Trump's airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities constituted "the most complex and secretive military operation in history."

"Let me read the bottom line here," Hegseth said during a press conference on Thursday morning meant to discuss the operation. "President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the 12-day war."

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"Ah yes, the most 'secretive military operation' in history – so secret it was announced on Fox News with more theatrics than a WWE cage match," one user commented. "Pete looks like he’s auditioning to play Patton in a school play sponsored by MyPillow."



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Pete is starting to talk like Trump when he says --.."the most complex and secretive....in history"...

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[Lonestarblue]

1. When your brain is rotted with alcohol, brain cells may have disappeared.

I doubt he had a lot in the first place. A working knowledge of actual history seems to be missing for most of Trump’s appointees.

[C_U_L8R]

7. And head all covered with greasy kid stuff

Doesn't he know the wet head is dead?

[dflprincess]

19. Might be flop sweat. nt

[Historic NY]

2. What would expect from a @FoxNews propagandist. Mr. Whiskey Leaks himself .

[Irish_Dem]

3. Revolutionary war, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam.

All very difficult, complex military operations.

[Bluetus]

26. If we look at "operations" as opposed to wars

I'd say the mission that killed OBL was probably about 1000X more complicated.

In this case, there wasn't a single pair of boots on the ground, and the bombs were fired from many miles away in a region where Israel had already cleared the air defenses.

[Irish_Dem]

34. I agree.

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My point was that some of the wars we fought were full of complex ops.

George Washington was supposed to lose the Revolutionary War.
All he had was a ragtag group of farmers.
But he had his genius, leadership and ability.

Then WWII of course was full of complicated brilliant ops.

[jmowreader]

40. He also had a very fine general named Baron von Steuben

Washington actually went to Europe, where they were fixin' to execute von Steuben for being gay, and told them he'd be happy to take him off their hands. The Europeans decided they didn't care whether they killed him or Washington hauled him off so long as he's gone and handed him over. The first thing he did when he got here was create a field sanitation manual...that the current US Army is still using. More American soldiers were dying from diarrhea than from British ammunition pre-Steuben, and he put an end to that. In the civilized world diarrhea is seen as a temporary annoyance but back in the day it was a potentially fatal disease.

[Bluetus]

41. Yes, no doubt.

There are literally thousands of operations in American military history that were far more complicated than this one. This was actually pretty simple. Fly to point X and push the button to send GPS-guided bombs to the location that was programmed by other analysts. Fly home.

I'm not saying just anybody can do this. It takes a lot of skill and training to do that job, and we should all be proud of their skills, training, and the performance of the equipment. And I am sure that spending 36 hours in those tight confines was not pleasant. Let's honor the pilots for doing the jobs assigned to them. But calling it one of the most complicated missions is utter rubbish. It was analogous to scoring a touchdown from the one-yard-line when the other team put nobody on the field on defense.

[Irish_Dem]

43. Exactly, simple operation.

USAF pilot flies to enemy territory, drops bombs, goes home.
Thanks God he is still alive.

But it is what they train for all the time.
It is their job, what they signed up for.

They don't need some jack wad idiot POTUS rubbing their feathers 24/7.

Yes enormous amount of training to fly a B-2 Stealth.
But this is what they love to do, and understand the job.

[Bluetus]

46. This was a simple, low risk one. And I'm sure we all appreciate that

when they sign up for the job, they sign up for every mission, including the ones that are very complicated and dangerous. It is heroic to commit to that job, but this particular mission was not one of the most heroic..

[thought crime]

44. Justification debatable, but the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki were pretty secretive and complex.

Absolutely horrible with massive civilian deaths, ushering in the atomic nightmare.

[SergeStorms]

33. And their global positioning systems....

weren't nearly as good back then!

[Irish_Dem]

35. I don't think the Iran bomb drop was all that brilliant or complicated.

Pilot flies an airplane to enemy territory, drops bombs.

Happens all the time during a war.
Just a day's work.

Yes it is dangerous, but that is what military pilots train for.

My USAF father flew combat in three US wars.
The aircrews didn't have a president bragging on them 24/7 for one bombing mission.

[SergeStorms]

57. It's all computerized now.

The "stealth" bombers would be nearly impossible for a pilot to fly without computer guidance, and the "bombadiers" no longer exist. The computers do practically everything, and the "smart" bombs hit targets within 13 meters of their intended objective. 40 feet. That's why Trump is so sure those bombs "obliterated" their targets.

[Irish_Dem]

58. Back in the day, navigators, bombardiers, pilots did it all by hand.

Navigators looked at the stars for night flying.
Used a sextant and slide rule.

During WWII my USAF father was flying the Burma Hump over the Himalayas.
Very high altitude, freezing weather, no maps, uncharted territory.
Dangerous topography.

In Viet Nam he was flying Air Refuelers over enemy territory so bombers
and recon planes could fly deep into enemy territory.

Then flew Cargo in Viet Nam.
Dropping off supplies to Marines and Army in combat zones.
Picking up dead bodies.
Runways were non existent.
Planes didn't even stop, just did touch and go landing.
Threw supplies out the cargo bay as plane is moving.
GIs on. the ground threw body bags in the cargo bay.
Enemy bullets were flying everywhere.

USAF did this kind of thing all the time.
Didn't ask for accolades, most of it highly classified.
Didn't need their feathers rubbed or want praise.
Did it because it was their job and they were proud to
work for the American people.

[SergeStorms]

59. The most important requisite for today's pilots...

is their proclivity for video games.
I can't get started on this stuff or I'll absolutely lose my mind. Take care. 😉

[Irish_Dem]

60. Jebus. God help us.

Glad my Dad is not alive to see this.

[Biophilic]

4. They are so f'ing stupid, and they don't care.

It's like they live in an alternative universe that somehow has meshed with ours, but they don't realize that. They are just living in their own little sphere.

[brush]

32. Being good at TSF ass kissing is required, and Hegseth, in his alcoholic haze, is excellent at that.

[mdbl]

5. Statements from a drunk.

Even if he's just a dry drunk.

[Fla Dem]

6. Yeah, and they didn't even have computers and cell phones then.

[PatSeg]

8. Yeah, that he knows of because basically

Hegseth doesn't really know very much about anything.

[electricmonk]

9. It wasn't even the most complex mission this month

I think Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb would take that crown.

[Hekate]

20. Operation Spiderweb 🕸️ was constructed over 18 months without a leak, Whiskey Pete

[Irish_Dem]

47. Spiderweb was incredible.

Amazing and brilliant.
Quite complicated.

Yes the Iran bombing was not rocket science.
Pilots flying into enemy territory and dropping bombs.
Getting the hell out quick.

[Traildogbob]

10. Banning books

Dehumanizing LGBTQ people, banning NPR and their GAY agenda and just eliminating any media or writting exposure that may Groom children to TURN gay, but let Kegsbreath stand on stage covered by every MSM source, and slowly unzip trumps oversized pants and fondle his testicles in front of the world, well that’s just a Christian man up there telling us what God told him to do.
Is it coincidence that trumps face is never shown when Kegsbreath’s mouth is moving? (His face 🤪😛🤑🤑
I would say drunks are the worst liars, but Trump don’t drink and he is the master.
Maybe it is just a fake Christian skill. And a crucifix heightens that art.

[Jim__]

11. Hegseth may never have heard about D-Day.

[CTyankee]

31. They even made a movie about it. It's titled "The Longest Day." Maybe he could watch it and learn something....

[twodogsbarking]

12. But did you actually accomplish anything. No. You just insulted the "Greatest Generation".

I am one generation removed from WW2 folks but I got to know many. Everyone at the time was affected by the war and it lasted not only for the years of the war but for their entire lives. They splitl their lives by; before the war, during the war, and afrer the war. Fuck you toy general.

[Cheezoholic]

13. Feed that BS machine with so much BS folks tune out and move on with their lives. It's "The Roy Cohn" jerk around n/t

[riversedge]

14. Daily Beast: Hegseth Uncorks Deranged Early-Morning Rant About Iran Raid Leak

Hegseth Uncorks Deranged Early-Morning Rant About Iran Raid Leak
SOBER MOMENT
The tirade was emblematic of the White House’s fury over a leaked U.S. intelligence report.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-uncorks-deranged-early-morning-rant-about-iran-raid-leak/?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page


Farrah Tomazin Political Correspondent Updated Jun. 26 2025 10:36AM EDT




Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has mounted a furious early morning rant over the U.S. strikes against Iran, accusing the press of trying to “manipulate the public’s mind” about the success of the attack.
Pete Hegseth photo illustration
Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images

As Iran’s supreme leader downplayed the impact of the strike with a social media post on Thursday morning, a very animated Hegseth held an 8 am press conference at the Pentagon to once again insist the country’s nuclear facilities were...

[Dave Bowman]

16. That spineless lying pos reminds me of Baghdad Bob.

[electricmonk]

29. Whole damn administration

of Baghdad Bobs. At least BB was a little bit entertaining in his exaggerations. The current clowns are just annoying.

[Dave Bowman]

15. Pathetic shameless ignorant butt-kisser. Makes me sick.

[Skittles]

56. whoring for Trump is Pete's job requirement #1

THAT is why he was hired

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. Oh, really?

Let's see.

"Most complex." - Too much for Hegseth's damaged brain (that was probably not that good to start with)

"Most secretive." - They didn't brag about it on Signal beforehand.

Story checks out.

[SallyHemmings]

18. But he is pretty and on TV

It would be funny if it wasn’t dangerous.

[MissouriDem47]

21. Even if That Was True

Even if that is true, which it is not, the kudos go to the people that planned and carried out the operation, not the politician whose only responsibility was to agree to it. TACO didn't "lead" anything. He sit in the Situation Room, as a spectator and watched.

[Grins]

22. "President Trump directed...". Not a damn thing.

Like he was the that planed it all out.

[Dave Bowman]

38. If he had planned anything they would have bombed the wrong country.

[Submariner]

23. Eisenhower might have something to say about that

when it came to D-Day planning.

[quakerboy]

24. Id believe expensive.

Doing napkin math, im getting just shy of 300 million for a one day operation, and that's probably missing a lot of support costs.

All to bomb an emptied mountain and hopefully set iran back a few months.

Whata businessman. No wonder trumps casino went under.

[LisaM]

25. This administration has put WWII in the rearview mirror.

They are ignoring or making a mockery of everything that was won in that struggle.

[AverageOldGuy]

27. I guess Hogsbreath is not familiar with:

-- The Son Tay raid.
-- The D-Day landing.
-- The Inchon landing.
-- The Manhattan Project.

"Warrior" my ass. He would not have lasted five minutes with us in the bush in Vietnam -- 100 deg temps, rain for days, 60-lb rucksack and another 15 pounds of shit hanging on you (grenades, water, ammo, Kabar . . . )

[RockRaven]

28. Forget D-Day, Hannibal crossing the Alps was more complex and secretive than this,

and that was 2+ millennia ago.

I'm so tired of the blathering of these dumbshit blowhards.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. Yeah, WWII was a cake walk compared to a stealth plane dropping a bomb.

[Karasu]

36. Oh, fucking please. Bombing a select few buildings in Iran doesn't even BEGIN to compare to most

military operations in history, let alone something the scale of D-Day.

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. What about

the Manhattan Project?

[Jit423]

39. Just how complex is it to fly over a mountain that is unprotected and drop big bombs? Israel does it all the time.

It might be different if the Iranians and the Palestinians were equally armed with matching weapons. We have the weapons, they have the stones.
D-Day was a totally different matter. We were fighting an enemy equally if not better armed than we.

[Quanto Magnus]

42. They will say anything.....

it's all lies....

[jmowreader]

45. Operation Gold was a WAY more complex military operation than Operation Bomb Iran

This was a joint CIA-MI6-KGB operation to tap the phones in the East Berlin main telephone exchange. It required digging a 450-meter-long tunnel from a building the CIA and MI6 erected in West Berlin to the East German dial central office, tapping the lines, and building a wall (complete with a sign in German and Russian that said "entrance is forbidden by the commanding general&quot between the East Germans' equipment and the Western equipment monitoring the lines. The KGB learned about the tunnel before they started digging it from British double agent George Blake, but they knew breaking up the operation while Blake was still stationed in Berlin would have led to his arrest and they decided Blake was more important than anything that could have been on those lines...so, they waited until Blake had been reassigned before they "discovered" it.

By comparison, all they had to do to pull this off was to violate the sovereignty of about nine countries by flying bombers over them.

[Brainfodder]

48. This is for an audience of one, everyone else is pretty much in on the BS?

Hired to look good on TV like everyone else from that place?

Getting funny sad to watch these bad actors twist in real time!

[Deminpenn]

49. Only saw the very beginning

of this Sean Spicer level performance.

I'm guessing in a couple years, he'll be on ads pitching car insurance, too.

[tinymontgomery]

50. We've officially entered North Korea and Russian Media

talking points territory.

[Hassler]

51. "Sir, follow up. Have you kept your promise to stop drinking?'

[Norrrm]

52. Cadet Bone Spurs "directed"..... After all, he knows more than the generals.

[Bristlecone]

53. Shades of Sean Spicer....

[moondust]

54. No credibility.

None at all.

Can't help but feel sorry for younger folks who may not have much experience separating ridiculous bullshit from the truth.

[Solly Mack]

55. Ignorant blowhards and idiots.

[John1956PA]

61. Hegseth at the Press Conference:

[electric_blue68]

62. Oh, STFU, you Incompetent, Lying, Drunken Sot!

[Skittles]

63. I'm surprised his lips can take a break from Trump's ass this long