"TO GET WOKENESS OUT OF OUR MILITARY AND RESTORE THE UNQUESTIONING STRENGTH...OF THE AMERICAN ARMED FORCES, I HAVE APPOINTED @PETEHEGSETH TO BE OUR NEXT SEC. OF DEFENSE." President @RealDonaldTrump
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But to get woke us out of our military and restore the unquestioned strength and fighting spirit of the American armed forces, I've appointed Pete Hegseth to be our next Secretary of Defense. He's going to be great. You know, I've interviewed with him a lot on Fox and all he ever wanted to talk about was the military, including when we were on. We talk about the military, you talk about how unfairly our soldiers were treated. Can I give a pardon to this one or that one who's treated so unfairly? They teach him to be fighting machines, and then when they fight, they want to put them in jail for 35 years, and he was very strong on that. That's all he wanted to talk about, really, it just seems so natural to me. Plus, he had a great education, went to Princeton, and Harvard was a tremendous student, and he's a very vibrant, strong guy. I think he's going to be great. He's doing well to make our intelligence community respected even more. I don't even think the word even is right, because we had some bad years with these people. But we're going to do something, we're going to stop looking at all of these horrible foreign wars that we've gotten ourselves through stupidity. We're in wars and countries that nobody ever even heard of before, and we're going to be smart. We're going to be guided by strength, and we're going to piece through strength like we had. I had no wars other than I wiped out ISIS.
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