Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has summoned top military leaders from across the globe to give a speech in which he raged about fat generals, men with beards, and “dudes in dresses.”
In an unprecedented address on Tuesday to outline an overhaul of the military, the former Fox News host also lamented people who complained about toxic leadership, telling the room: “If that makes me toxic, then so be it.”
Declaring that words like “bullying” and “hazing” had been “weaponized,” Hegseth announced a full review of the department’s definitions of those terms.
Complaint mechanisms would also be reformed, he said, along with the military’s equal opportunity policies.
“We are liberating you,” said Hegseth, who controversially got his job despite a number of past sexual assault allegations against h