Though it still seems hard to believe, a couple of weeks ago, Senate Republicans narrowly confirmed former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as the nation’s new secretary of defense, overlooking his scandals, inexperience and bizarre ideology. As the Pentagon chief’s tenure gets underway, how are things going?
They could be better. NBC News reported:
Military families protesting the Defense Department’s anti-DEI push heckled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on his arrival at U.S. European Command headquarters in Germany on Tuesday. On a visit to the U.S. military’s key European military hub in Stuttgart, Hegseth was booed by around two dozen people who live at the base in an apparent demonstration against the policies being implemented by the Trump administration.
“Protests by military families against a defense secretary are extremely rare,” the report added.
A related report in The Washington Post noted, “Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.”








