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turbinetree

(27,718 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 09:48 AM Sep 2025

'It's a bad look!' Pete Hegseth uses unprecedented meeting to bash 'fat generals' [View all]

By Alexander Willis
Published September 30, 2025 9:12 AM ET

During the unprecedented and surprise meeting of hundreds of admirals and top U.S. military officials in Virginia Tuesday, Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth railed against what he characterized as a scourge of “fat troops” and “fat generals and admirals,” and announced a series of new physical fitness standards all military members must adhere to going forward.

“If the secretary of War can do regular, hard [physical training], so can every member of our joint force,” Hegseth said, speaking at the event in Quantico, a giant American flag behind him.

“Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations – or really any formation – and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon. It's a bad look! It is bad, and it's not who we are.”

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2674117002/

1) You flew these people in so that you could give a pep talk about fitness's at the expense of taxpayers..............I fucking want my money back asshole

2) Did you tell that fat fuck golf player (Orange hair Traitor) to get is shape or does the Ronnie Jackson treatment get a fucking pass...........were waiting asshole

3) Did you get your loyalty oaths to turn the country into a complete Russian failed state of fealty................asshole

4) Did you bring all the maga senators ( like Joni Ernst) that confirmed you to give them a update on your bullshit and they gave you high fives................asshole

5) Did you give them a heads up that all personnel will not be getting paid because your fucking commander and chief the maga senate leader and the supporter of the insurrection maga house leader think that paychecks are like the military does not need them during a government shut down (they can go get a loan from paycheck by the week place and pay 18% with no credit check) because they maga republicans think greed is fucking good because they still get theirs..............asshole

6) SO did you tell them that if not Fucking resign ..........or get impeached......asshole

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It's a bad look to get dribbly, messily, shitfacedly drunk, too. Aristus Sep 2025 #1
Any recommendations for Meal Team 6? Hela Sep 2025 #2
They all should be fu**ing embarrassed tinymontgomery Sep 2025 #19
Dry drunk with christo-fascist tattoos and greasy hair is just as bad a look. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #3
LOL.................... Lovie777 Sep 2025 #4
I hate to say this, but, he has a point fat generals are not a good look. The troops who marched in Trump's parade Srkdqltr Sep 2025 #5
He could have sent a memo. chowder66 Sep 2025 #8
Instead Hegseth spent millions just to say "Y'all fat". 2MuchNoise Sep 2025 #12
Yes he should Srkdqltr Sep 2025 #16
The troops looking looked fine obamanut2012 Sep 2025 #10
If they had done that parade thing displacedvermoter Sep 2025 #24
The military parade, if they were to honor their oath thomski64 Sep 2025 #29
Fuck that Ponietz Sep 2025 #39
Generals are "fat" qazplm135 Sep 2025 #32
The troops in the parade orangecrush Sep 2025 #35
My primary criteria for an effective military is not "looks good" meadowlander Sep 2025 #45
Apparently TSF is not general material. Sneederbunk Sep 2025 #6
Snarf UpInArms Sep 2025 #7
So the whole thing is a multilevel marketing diet scam? C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #9
He wants to show off his manly-tattoos and manly-body so bad... Buns_of_Fire Sep 2025 #11
Drunkard and the Mango -- and Epstein Tetrachloride Sep 2025 #13
Then there is the fat Commander in Chief... yellowcanine Sep 2025 #14
He is the SOTLC - Secretary Of The Liquor Cabinet CentralMass Sep 2025 #15
lol Celerity Sep 2025 #17
It's a bad look alright Peter.... democratsruletheday Sep 2025 #18
The Secretary of Defense is a "Do You Even Lift, Bro?" Bro Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #20
So is public intoxication RainCaster Sep 2025 #21
Drink 'em under the table, Kegsbreath! Kid Berwyn Sep 2025 #22
Round is a shape, right? Totally Tunsie Sep 2025 #23
Fuck this rapist, Hegseth, secretary of rape Blues Heron Sep 2025 #25
He called Rebl2 Sep 2025 #26
Hegseth'sone arm is very muscular Norbert Sep 2025 #27
what a dick bigtree Sep 2025 #28
Yeah. Piss off your generals. 50 Shades Of Blue Sep 2025 #30
a 5 time draft dogger trying to scold generals . general bone spurs? AllaN01Bear Sep 2025 #31
It's the only way he can see his junk. rubbersole Sep 2025 #34
JHFC orangecrush Sep 2025 #33
A video has been leaked of hegseth and trump lecturing the generals.... 70sEraVet Sep 2025 #36
I thought Trump wanted Generals like Hitler had? Coventina Sep 2025 #37
I think that one is fictional. But this one was real: Wednesdays Sep 2025 #43
Has he seen Trump? Orrex Sep 2025 #38
Does the dsvajda Sep 2025 #40
Herbert Hoover liked his young agents to be well dressed and well built. Ping Tung Sep 2025 #41
Thought for sure this would be The Onion The Revolution Sep 2025 #42
Why is nobody here mentioning the most frightening part of Hegseth's speech? Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #44
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