Gutfeld on Pete Hegseth: ‘I’m Losing Yet Another Guest’; ‘The Gutfeld Show Is Going To Be Staffing the Entire White House’

WATTERS: “America’s enemies and woke Pentagon bureaucrats are on notice. President-Elect Trump nominating Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense. Hegseth lives and breathes the military. It’s in his DNA. He’s a combat vet with 20 plus years of service. He did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, receiving two Bronze Stars. Hegseth also has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, but we’re not going to hold that against him. Pete also literally wrote the book on how to root out the woke insanity that’s weakened our military. The man knows his stuff. So when you heard about this, Greg, last night around 7:00, what crossed your mind?”

GUTFELD: “I was deeply hurt. I’m losing yet another guest. This is — I’ve lost, like, four guests. I think the Gutfeld Show Is going to be staffing the entire White House. But he, you know, he projects Secretary of Defense kind of the way Homan projects border czar and Jesse projects shallow frat boy.”

WATTERS: “Department. Shallow frat boy department.”

PERINO: “Mr. Secretary.”

GUTFELD: “Pete’s a guy. He’s not a guy in a dress. He’s not a guy who will make you read a manual on equity and inclusion, he’s single-minded, he’s determined and he’s uncomplicated. The media criticism right now is an appeal to authority. Like, who is this guy? As if they don’t know how to Google and find out. Yeah, two Bronze Stars, two decades in the military. Also one of the most persuasive defenders of the military. He is what actors play in movies. He’s what Clooney impersonates. Again, it goes back to my point about The Avengers. They got the — they got the actors, we got the real people. Hegseth was the first and most persuasive voice trying to preserve the lethality of our fighting forces under attack from the scourge of identity politics. Lethality is a primary mission and it’s only achievable through meritocracy, which is the enemy of DEI. Military personnel, they cannot be splintered into competing self-interests, which is encouraged, of course, by identity politics. It undermines the cohesion of the fighting group. And so, he is right at that spear of making changes and he’s pretty fearless. My problem is he’s so unattractive. Very homely man.”