Speaking during an interview with Fox News Channel hosts Pete Hegseth, Will Cain, and Rachel Campos-Duffy on “Fox and Friends Weekend,” former President Donald Trump talked about how wokeness is, in his view, destroying the military and how firing the generals pushing wokeness is the way to push back and what he will do in office.
That came as Trump argued that the real problem is not the military generally being woke, but rather that there are a select number of officers at the top of the Armed Forces’ pyramid of hierarchy who push the woke nonsense. He also said that, while those are woke, there are som “fighting generals” left. He said, “I got to know the real fighting generals. There’s not ‘woke’ in the military. There’s ‘woke’ at the top.”
Continuing, he said that he would fired those generals who are pushing wokeness in the military, telling the Fox News hosts, “They want there to be woke, but these guys aren’t meant for woke. I would fire them. You can’t have a woke military. You said it so great… You need people that want to win. They want to win wars. That’s what their purpose is, to win wars, not to be woke… but we do have great military.”
Pete Hegseth, a member of the broadcast, also spoke about the wokeness issue in the military. Doing so on Monday, June 3, with Ainsley Earhardt, Hegseth, a veteran, tore into the “Pride Month” messaging of the Navy SEALs. He said, speaking to Earhardt, “Those are not the colors I care about. The colors I care about are red, white, and blue.”
Continuing, Hegseth said, “We all wore green together. We all bleed red together. Who we slept with is not the issue… The issue is how good are you at your job? And are you being promoted because you’re the best rifleman, or you’re the best pilot, or you’re the best tank commander? Not are you the first to this or are you the first that? And that’s the story I tell time and time again.”
He added, speaking about the current issues with the military and how it is going from patriotism to Marxism at a shocking clip as standards are lowered and accountability disappears. He said, “I talked to dozens and dozens of actively serving men and women, junior enlisted high-ranking officers, and they all said the same things. We’re walking on eggshells. There’s no accountability. The standards are being lowered, slowly eroded to conform to woke Marxist ideologies the Democrat politicians have pushed into the Pentagon. Pentagon should be the biggest meritocracy in the world. Instead, it’s a social experiment.”
Not done, Hegseth said, “A commander-in-chief needs to be focused on winning the wars we fight, and that means installing leadership at the Pentagon who are laser-focused on that.” Explaining how that is not the case, he said, “Unfortunately, the incentives for generals under the Biden administration and the Obama administration was to conform to ideologies of leftist politicians who were ramming stuff into the Pentagon that has nothing to do with winning wars.”
Continuing, he described how the current DEI and CRT goals are corrosive, saying, “What is your gender? What is your race? DEI, CRT, are we driving electric tanks? Are we saving the climate with the military? None of that is important to the men and women who I served with. We were focused on succeeding in the mission we were given.”
Then, blasting the “diversity” messaging from the Pentagon, he said, “The Pentagon likes to say our diversity is our strength. What a bunch of garbage. In the military, our diversity is not our strength. Our unity is our strength, and we need a commander in chief that understands that. Donald Trump certainly does. Getting woke out will go a long way in making sure we’re the top in the world.”
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