Real Hegseth quote about fat generals and admirals spreads online

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News Summary

  • U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth convened a meeting of top generals at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia.
  • During the meeting, he gave a speech to the assembled officials in which he purportedly criticized "fat" troops and generals.
  • We obtained footage of him making the statement as well as transcript of his speech from the Department of Defense's website.
  • We reproduce his full comments below (emphasis ours): "Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops"
ClaimU.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Its tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops. Likewise, its completely unacceptable to see fat general [+5792 chars]

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