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turbinetree

(26,801 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 08:48 AM Sep 30

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