{"id":2334190,"date":"2026-03-18T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2334190"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:55:07","slug":"colbert-momentarily-stunned-into-silence-by-pete-hegseths-ironclad-logic-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colbert-momentarily-stunned-into-silence-by-pete-hegseths-ironclad-logic-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Momentarily Stunned Into Silence By Pete Hegseth\u2019s \u2018Ironclad Logic\u2019 On Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Defense Secretary <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u2019s bonkers logic about the consequences of the Iran war got the Stephen Colbert treatment on Monday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hegseth on Friday downplayed concerns about Iran disrupting the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 through which about 20% of the world\u2019s oil flows \u2014 arguing there was essentially no issue, aside from one major caveat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that,\u201d Hegseth said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Colbert responded with several seconds of silence before delivering his verdict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cYes &#8230; yes, that is ironclad logic,\u201d he mocked, adding: \u201cGood news, Miss Nicols. Your husband\u2019s surgery went perfectly; he should be ready to take home as soon as he\u2019s done at the crematorium.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Watch Colbert\u2019s full monologue here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s bonkers logic about the consequences of the Iran war got the Stephen Colbert treatment on Monday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d Hegseth on Friday downplayed concerns about Iran disrupting the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 through which about 20% of the world\u2019s oil flows \u2014 arguing there was essentially no issue, aside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2334191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,364881,384782,22653],"class_list":["post-2334190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Colbert-Momentarily-Stunned-Into-Silence-By-Pete-Hegseths-\u2018Ironclad-Logic.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334192,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334190\/revisions\/2334192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}