Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a masterclass performance during a Pentagon press conference on Thursday, in which he tore into their slanderous coverage of U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. And someone should pour one out for one reporter who tried to lecture him on his language following the mission.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump on Saturday evening announced that the US had dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran.
During the raid, Trump sent multiple decoy bomber aircraft out west over the Pacific Ocean to trick the Iranians. The decoys stopped in Hawaii for a refuel, and people thought the planes were just too far away to be able to attack Iran today.
Out of all the takeaways from the event, the concern of some reporters, including leftist Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, was Hegseth supposedly disrespecting females by saying, “Our boys on those bombers,” during a Sunday morning briefing at the Pentagon.
Following the briefing, Griffin posted, “Defense Secretary Hegseth: ‘We were able to destroy nuclear capabilities. And OUR BOYS in those bombers are on their way home right now.” Fox News has learned that at least one of the B.2 pilots who took part in the Iran mission was female.”
A female reporter at Thursday’s briefing followed up on Griffin’s comments and immediately started complaining about Hegseth’s politically incorrect phrase.
“Why didn’t you acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in this mission?” the reporter whined. “The early messages that you sent out only congratulated the boys.”
Hegseth laughed at the reporter before delivering a response worthy of the nation’s secretary of defense.
“So when I say something like our boys in bombers, see this is the kind of thing the press does, right?” Hegseth responded. “Of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. That’s fantastic. She’s fantastic. She’s a hero.”
“I want more female bomber pilots. I hope the men and women of our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things,” he added. “But when you spin it as because I say ‘our boys in bombers’ as a common phrase, I’ll keep saying things like that whether they’re men or women. (I’m) very proud of that female pilot, just like I’m very proud of those male pilots.”
“And I don’t care if it’s a male or a female in that cockpit, and the American people don’t care. But it’s the obsession with race and gender in this department that’s changed priorities.”
“We don’t do that anymore. We don’t play your little games.”
Amen to that.
WATCH:
LMAO! Pete Hegseth almost falls over LAUGHING at a reporter who took issue with him saying “our boys” in reference to the B-2 pilots (instead of being ‘inclusive’)
“Why didn’t you acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in this mission. The early messages that… pic.twitter.com/SWrTQ9aNG2
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 26, 2025
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