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turbinetree

(26,608 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 09:48 AM Tuesday

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