'Gutter racist': Outrage swamps Hegseth as news that he snubbed Black colonel spreads

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Hegseth is a racist asshole

'Gutter racist': Outrage swamps Hegseth as news that he snubbed Black colonel spreads

www.rawstory.com/hegseth-blac...

— Keith (@khankso.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T21:19:29.925Z

https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-black-colonel/

In what’s being called an “exceedingly rare” move, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of two Black and two female colonels to one-star generals.

The New York Times reported Friday that some senior US military officials are questioning whether Hegseth acted out of animus toward Black people and women after the defense secretary blocked the promotion of the four officers despite the repeated objections of Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, who touted what the Times called the colonels’ “decadeslong records of exemplary service.”

Military officials told the Times that Hegseth’s chief of staff, Lt. Col. Ricky Buria, got into a heated exchange with Driscoll last summer over the promotion of another officer, Maj. Gen. Antoinette Gant—a combat veteran of the US invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq—to command the Military District of Washington, DC.

Such a promotion would have placed Gant in charge of numerous events at which she would likely be seen publicly with President Donald Trump. According to multiple military officials, Buria told Driscoll that Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer.

[spooky3]

1. Racist AND sexist nt

[johnnyfins]

2. How very "christian" of him.

[Norrrm]

3. Will Hegseth tell his rationale or let the story become true?

[ornotna]

6. What do you mean

“Let the story become true “

Are you suggesting the story is fake?

[Norrrm]

8. That will be his fear. That it is not fake.

Considering his history, I think it is real.

[appmanga]

4. Hegseth is a white nationalist and white supremacist...

...as are most of the principals in this cabal. Why are people shocked that racists do racist things?

[Krazy_Kat]

5. Gutter racist and gutter rapist

[Dan]

7. Hegseth well represents the values of his Commander in Chief.

[biocube]

9. This isn't even 21st century racism

It's mid 20th century racism.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. They're so basic. 😎

[Queso Delicioso]

10. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

And how much more so, when they tattoo it on their bodies?

[struggle4progress]

12. Who can spell "alcohol related brain damage"?

[IronLionZion]

13. MAGA loyalists are making some incredible decisions for our military these days

without any obviously qualified minorities or women to steer them in any other direction.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

14. Hegseth hates POC and women

[SunSeeker]

15. Kegsbreath is an incompetent, racist, sexist piece of shit.

[ShazamIam]

16. I think that back in the hippie days we called Hegseth types, PIGS! I still use that name.

[Martin Eden]

17. Don't worry. All this will be flushed down the Memory Hole

As this fascist regime makes Orwell's prophecy come true.


Unless We The People do something about it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. trump stood as far as possible from this officer when he had to be at the same ceremony

When trump had to stand with this officer at a ceremony, you will see that trump stood as far as possible away from her

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Hegseth is a racist/sexist asshole

[Blue Owl]

20. Fuck that flaming asshole