The View Hosts Express Confusion Over Pete Hegseth’s Focus on ‘Fitness’ in Military: ‘Why Is He Obsessed?’

Zachary Leeman Sep 30th, 2025, 11:57 am

hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin expressed confusion on Tuesday over why Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is so “obsessed” with physical “fitness” in the military.

On Tuesday’s edition of The View , the hosts reacted to Hegseth’s address to top military brass in Quantico, Virginia, where President Donald Trump also spoke . Hegseth announced a review of military standards across the board and declared multiple times that “woke garbage” has no place in today’s military.

Behar accused Hegseth, a former Army National Guard officer, of pushing a “retro” view of the country’s armed forces.

“Right before we went on the air, the new

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