🚨Hegseth BANNED and KICKED OUT OF COUNTRY after STUNT!! - MeidasTouch

[2naSalit]

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth getting thrown out of Normandy and deemed persona non grata after his horrible speech in Normandy.

[wcmagumba]

1. So is he banned from the entire country of France? Did he chant "USA USA" as he was leaving...?

[RazorbackExpat]

2. He should be persona non grata in the US

[progressoid]

3. ugh. Enough with the hyperbolic headlines Ben

[Katinfl]

6. I would probably click on the clip but the bold yellow letters remind me of the tabloids and I lose interest.

I hear he is very good though. Just cannot get past the screaming headlines.

[PatSeg]

7. Yes, they remind me of tabloids as well

I rarely watch their videos anymore. The headlines tend to be misleading and the splashy words and arrows have a really cheesy look to them. Also I don't need so much commentary basically telling me what I just saw.

[progressoid]

10. And the ridiculous thumbnail photos.

Sometimes, I click just to check it out. Inevitably, I regret it.

I couldn't get the first minute of this one.

[RetiredParatrooper]

14. The headlines are annoying, true

And Miselas is indeed good, but like so very many of these people, he takes too much time getting to the point. Glenn Kirchner is another example of this.

If I listen, it is usually at 1.5x speed.

[Wednesdays]

4. Disappointed.

I was hoping he was kicked out and banned from THIS country.

[vapor2]

5. Should have been banned or rather fired after signal chat

and compromising our national security

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. MTN just doing what almost every other internet news type organization does - amplifies the headline to encourage

follow thru.

[Quanto Magnus]

13. And this is why I've been watching much less

of MTN. The headlines have become a turn off to me and Ben editorializing as much as he does is also a turn off.

Trying to excuse the sensationalism by saying others do it?

I thought they were trying to be different, not just be the loudest sensationalists out there.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Their content and collection of contributors is really solid IMO. Headlines and chyrons are

part of news today and going forward I would imagine.

[Quanto Magnus]

18. I like a bunch of their peeps for sure

Legal AF is really good.

I just wish they'd tone down the sensationalism a bit.

I don't need Ben 'adding' to quotes. I find that to be the most annoying part of the tack they've taken. Progressives complain about FAUX taking things out of context or editing qutoes. We don't need to do that.

Granted Ben will put up the quotem while he verbally adds to it.

[chowder66]

9. There are no articles that he was banned or kicked out. Just criticized.

I wish MT would start shifting from this crap to the kind of headlines that should be out there that tell the truth.
Like Trump LIES or Normandy criticizes Hegseth after demeaning speech. I would be more likely to click if it was based in reality and more professional.

[Farmer-Rick]

11. What a horrible speech by Hegseth

It totally missed the entire purpose of the Normandy invasion. We fought in WWII to stop that kind of arrogant, delusional racism that the Nazis spread.

Didn't Hegseth get the memo? The Normandy invasion was about killing the Nazis not making them welcomed to spread their ideology of hate.

[twodogsbarking]

12. Sorry Normandy but we have to live with him every day.

[Karasu]

15. I made multiple posts yesterday asking why the fuck the EU keeps allowing him to come in and promote fascism in

their OWN countries, so he damn well better actually be banned.

France is a start. But this should have been done a while ago, for everyone in the regime who keeps attending these events in Europe (many of them are openly fascist conventions and the like) and making these crazy-ass speeches telling Europeans to be more like them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. MaddowBlog-Hegseth faces pushback after voicing anti-immigrant message at D-Day commemoration

This wasn’t CPAC or a conservative media interview; these were prewritten remarks from a U.S. defense secretary at a solemn event.

It’s not easy for a leading American official to screw up a D-Day commemoration ceremony in Normandy.

With his ugly anti-immigrant remarks, Pete Hegseth managed to find a way to do it anyway.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-08T13:23:53.048Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseth-faces-pushback-after-voicing-anti-immigrant-message-at-d-day-commemoration

Soon after, the former Fox News host delivered his comments, at which point things went from bad to worse. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a speech marking the anniversary of D-Day in France on Saturday, commemorating 82 years since the 1944 push to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, to lambast what he described as another “invasion” of Europe’s shores.

“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” Hegseth said in a speech at the Normandy American Cemetery in ​Colleville-sur-Mer. “Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion, or is ​it too late? I pray not, and I believe not.”

On D-Day, the lesson was supposed to be alliance, sacrifice, and the defense of democracy. Hegseth turns that memory into an anti-migrant “invasion” riff.

— The Steady State (@thesteadystate.org) 2026-06-06T23:00:03.785Z

That Hegseth has an anti-immigrant vision is unsurprising, but context is everything. This wasn’t CPAC or a conservative media interview, these were prewritten remarks at a D-Day commemoration ceremony.

A day later, even Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, the former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, conceded during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that Hegseth’s remarks were “inappropriate.”

The Texan, who’s retiring at the end of his term, added, “Look, there’s a time and a place for these issues of immigration. That was not the day, not the anniversary of D-Day. I think out of respect to the veterans, and myself being the son of a D-Day veteran, those remarks were out of place. I think it should have been about their sacrifice, their service to their country, and what they did to protect the free world at a time of great peril against Nazi Germany.”