Hey, if you’re a National Guard soldier stationed in Chicago and ethically disagree with it, just hit up the city’s delicious Italian beef, hot dog and pizza stands as often as possible.
Over the weekend, Task & Purpose — a news website focused on the U.S. military community — reported that the Texas Military Department replaced “a small group” of National Guard members sent to Illinois this past week for not meeting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s new fitness standards.
Late last month, Hegseth and Trump gathered every top U.S. general and admiral from around the world in Virginia to essentially declare that they didn’t want any fat people in the military anymore.
Task & Purpose noted that the decision seems to have been made after a Reddit post riddled with fatphobic jokes brutally mocked a handful of Texas soldiers deployed to Chicago who were featured in a photo shot by the Associated Press.
Hegseth was so thrilled about the removal of these soldiers that he tweeted Take & Force’s article Monday, along with a pretty braggy caption:
“Standards are back at The @DeptofWar,” he wrote, referring to his own department that President Donald Trump wants to rename the Department of War for some asinine fear-mongering reasons.
And although some X users had some pretty solid retorts to Hegseth’s post, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office may have had the best.
Retweeting Hegseth’s post, Newsom included a video montage that features the defense secretary proving that he might not meet his own physical fitness standards. It begins with Hegseth failing to do a complete pull-up, then shows him chucking an axe way — way — over its intended target. Then he kicks a skateboard right into his nuts.
This wasn’t the first time Newsom’s office pointed out how hypocritical Hegseth and Trump sounded when they belittled military members for not physically resembling Ninja Turtles. Shortly after the September bitchfest about military fitness, Newsom’s office re-tweeted a video of Hegseth saying the following to military leaders:
“Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations — or really, any formation — and see fat troops,” Hegseth griped. “Likewise, it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.”
Newsom then added a very unflattering photo of Trump and wrote the caption:
“I guess the Commander in Chief needs to go!”
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