Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has once again gone nuclear on lies from the woke media, this time with those lies coming from CBS News, which made up the claim that he was turning a room in the Pentagon into a makeup studio in which he could do his own makeup, presumably for TV appearances.
The media-hated, MAGA-beloved SecDef went nuclear on the absurd claims from CBS News in a post on X (formerly Twitter) in which he slammed the report and noted that the entirety of what the far-left outlet had reported was a collection of falsehoods.
For reference, the CBS News report claimed that Hegseth had turned what used to be a small, green room-adjacent room with sparse furnishings into his personal makeup studio. It began by saying, “An in-house construction crew renovated the adjacent green room earlier this year. The room previously had minimal furnishings — a table with chairs, a TV, photos of former defense secretaries and a mirror on the back of the door, one source said.”
Continuing, the CBS News report went on to claim both that Hegseth was doing his own makeup and that he had converted the room for that use, saying, “The table was removed and a new chair and large mirror with makeup lighting was installed, another source said. Hegseth is doing his own makeup ahead of TV appearances, not paying for a makeup artist, a defense official told CBS News.”
Predictably, woke personalities took the opportunity to mock Hegseth, citing the leftist media report as they did so. For example, Tom Nichols, a former professor at the U.S. Naval War College who now works for The Atlantic, snapped, ignoring that makeup has been used for TV appearances since the Nixon-Kennedy debate disaster, “Staying laser-focused on lethality and warfighting.” Tyler Austin Harper, another woke media personality, chimed in as well and said, replying to Nichols “They stormed the beaches of Normandy so that this man could put a makeup studio at the Pentagon.”
Similarly, leftist Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) chimed in and said, “Nothing screams warrior culture more than a makeup studio. Hegseth was derelict in his duties by repeatedly using his personal phone to disclose ongoing combat operations, and is now wasting taxpayer dollars. How does a makeup studio at Pentagon help troops? He needs to resign.”
Posting a similarly nonsensical and uninformed take, Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) said, “New makeup studios. Private trips on government helicopters. Millions for Trump’s golf outings. Billions to Musk’s companies. Trump and his cabinet think working people should lose Medicaid and Social Security. But they could care less about “efficiency” when they benefit themselves.”
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Then Hegseth took to X to nuke the report, noting that it was false and that the woke media loves absurdities so long as they benefit leftists. He wrote, “1) Totally fake story. No “orders” and no “makeup” — but whatever. 2) We should have installed tampon machines in every men’s bathroom at DoD instead — the leftist “news” media would have loved that.”
Watch Hegseth roast reporters to their faces about another lie here:
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