Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s memo ordering all DEI-related content to be removed from Pentagon websites was so vague, military units were instructed to search keywords like “racism,” “history” and “first” for materials to remove, defense officials told CNN.
Thank God they did too cause we have no other problems in this country right now
Because here in America we don’t celebrate firsts. 🙄 Who’s Amelia Earhart? Thurgood Marshall? George Washington?
These folks are going straight to hell.
Drunken unqualified white supremist puppet and nothing more
Looks like somebody command-f'd up.
“First”? Really? Ok, why?
I’m assuming it’s along the lines of “[name] was the first woman/African American/gay/Native American etc. to…”
Still seems unreasonable, but so is this administration.
What a despicable little man. (I am not making a comment on his height, just his moral essence.)
Fucking stupid
Hegseth: “Good God, I didn’t mean to be so vague with my instructions from Oompa J. Loompa and Edolph . Mistakes were made”. Yeah right.
It’s almost like he doesn’t know what he’s doing…
I’ll drink to that!!!
Going to be pretty tough on kids research projects. Guess we only research white wealthy men from now on! Morons!
Talk about inefficiency and waste… the tRump administrations incompetence borders on fraud… LOL!
This is about the level of competence that people expected from Pete. Which to say, nearly none at all. Zero forethought, much scrambling to try to mitigate damage afterwards. Just what you want in a Defense Secretary.
Lack of discipline with attention to detail. Dangerous in this job.
Can’t believe military people would do this. So shameful.
Other than the vile Scott Jennings, nothing makes me turn off CNN faster than a Maggie Haberman appearance. For months, Haberman knew Trump had taken classified document but said nothing so she could sell her book. She has a lot to explain to the families of America’s murdered spies.
Who'd have guess that a White Nationalist with no real qualifications for the job and who might as well be a Nazi would get the GOP nod to become the Sec.Def.
So remove all references to first strike.
Disgusting behaviour from a disgusting person.
Now Hegseth will blame others when there is an outcry at what has been removed from the military websites...
Appoint an idiot and see what you get.
The chainsaw should have given everybody a pretty good idea of what was fixing to happen. It's the Elon chainsaw massacre. You'll pay to see it continue. Just like you paid for not paying attention and knowing history. What does history "do"?...
…but Republicans are not racist. Oh, right….they just voted for this but they had no idea…
Maga Republican New York congressman Andrew Garbarino marched in a Saint Paddy’s Day parade where they were flying a Confederate flag. We must stop this hate before it spreads.
The fact that he was not able to pull off this DEI purge without offending people makes one question how he will handle a military crisis.
The wackos are running the government.
@cnn This is probably a good time to follow your headlines up with "I was just following orders" was rejected at the Nürnberg trials...
Pathetic-
Stupid unqualified over indulgent fox news commentator allowed to make these decisions. He is a DEI hire because he is absolutely not qualified for this position. He is immature, unqualified and unethical. He is definitely racist. Clown
JFC! 🤦♀️
These whites guys are really threatened by anything that seems to undermine their fragile egos.
And all this time I thought the US military pledged an oath to the constitution... Oh well.
Can we delete the DUI hire? He apparently does not know how to run such a large operation.
Did they search for “paranoia?”
Just plain racism! Jim Crow returns with a vengeance!
Fuck Hegseth. He’s a fucking piece of shit yes man cosplaying as defense secretary.
That's ok Petey. We live in the age of the internet. We "the others" are educating out children at home. "You people" will never again be able to erase our history. This ain't our parents and grandparent America.
He’s a little Nazi.
These are the most important concerns for national security! If only things were awarded for merit, this joke wouldn’t have a job.
Pete Hegseth seems smart. Like stripper in cosmetology school smart. Not run the military smart.
The Trump Administration shall be known historically as… “The Purge!”
Almost like we should’ve had competent leaders in these positions.
Yeah that's what an alcoholic rapist ex Fox News employeewould do
This country has become a god damn joke.
They are already well on their way to eliminate the first amendment anyway.
They *want* everyone to be doomed to repeat history.
Erase higswart from our lives.
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s memo ordering all DEI-related content to be removed from Pentagon websites " Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire - an alcoholic, drug addict, and admitted to harassing women in the work place. No private company would ever hire a person with this background.
Well Fox News did. He fit right in there.
It’s called racism and sexism.
We’re getting what we deserve. Maybe next time people will show up to vote.
Next time?
A fool with a tool is still a fool. SNAFU, as usual
“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent…and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense baptistnews.com/article/its-...
Why won’t the media say to his face “you were a DEI hire” Pete! You unqualified fuck!
Such an idiot, but then again he came from FOX News.🙄
Such bullshit! This guy and government is a nightmare!
Keywords remaining on Hegseth's personal and SECDEF site content: "alcohol, overdrink alcohol, unquenchable thirst for alcohol, gin, gin & tonic, beer, beer chaser, vodka, tequila, tequila sunrise, margarita, grain alcohol, Kahlua, chase single women in bars while married, settlement agreement"
Maybe include fascist, totalitarianism, imperialism and bullying related content?
So incredibly immature.
I get more disgusted every day.
Racist who is trying to erase history!
What a drunken clown
Unqualified alcoholic loser racist
Like, he is a test case why there should be DEI.
Another amateur from this Administration
Amazed that the most powerful defence force in the world focuses on the big things … like ‘words’ I suppose they’ve got a poison the roots first before the tree falls over
These pathetic little vermin make me sick. They are cowardly azzholes! #FuckRepublicans
“Leadership”
This guy is crazy..throwing out holocaust materials.
It reminds me of The Charge of the Light Brigade. The wrong guns. But then these fools will not be in power for long.
If tattoos make you a target of ICE could someone call this racist in?
I suspect there was a bit of Malicious Compliance at play here. The people removing content took the order to maximum effect, which drew plenty of attention to how bad the order was. There seems to have been a lot of that recently, such as removing content about the "Enola Gay".
Because of this information as to Jackie Robinson’s service in the military was removed. As was information on the Navajo code breakers
Hegseth has no clue of being in that position. He’s a lapdog for Trump doing Trump’s bidding
Maybe it’s just the wording of the headline but that sounds pretty racist
Fascism
There about to do some bad things to humans
First? So anything related to the First World War is going to be erased?
That was the great war. It'll be fine
This is better. Ordering all kind-related content be removed. It sounds terrible. If you substitute DEI or woke with kind/kindness. It changes the whole conversation. Being woke or favouring DEI is announcing to the world that you are not an asshole. You are kind. Be proud of being kind & tolerant💜🇨🇦
A travesty.
Because Peter has no experience - other than Fox host and a questionable past.
Wiped off mention of the Enola Gay, any reference to accomplishments by women or people of color and anything that doesn’t fit the white Aryan profile
Only hires the best. Most sober?
Well, Hegseth is the first racist in history to be such an obvious drunken Nazi.
Searching words....how obtuse can the fool be? Searching & killing words is not soldiers work Hegseth is working Murica everyday the drunkard is in the position
Yes, because "first" is such a divisive term. First Black Man to receive Medal of Honor-OH NO First Drunk to run Defense Department- Yay! These guys couldn't catch common sense if it were a rape charge.
It’s difficult to figure out who the biggest douche in this administration is. It’s like a competition.
The Prez Musk/Trump paradigm. Just stop it. What ever squeals, may be ok. If it doesn't scream, it dies.
It’s amazing what you find room to report on. Virtually every single day media wide known Trump supporters arrested for child rape or some kind of crime against the child but God forbid you actually cover that pattern. What a joke CNN has become I think the national enquirer had more self respect
What a waste of time — and money. Has anyone tallied how much money the government has wasted so far this year? I'll wager that it's a lot more than last year-to-date., even if the government lies about the current ytd spending.
More like a “sssick tattoos, bruh” kind of guy.
Newsflash...you are not required to comply with illegal or immoral orders. Just say no. Stand your ground. Resist.
Probably shouldn't issue orders shitfaced at 3am.
Unbelievable that you’re living out this divisive nightmare. To Hehseth and the like:
Are we being punked?
Lazy racism!
Hegseth is a white supremacist
Was he drunk when he issued the memo?
When is he not drunk?
Oof. Our posts didn’t age well.
lol What do you mean? They appear to have aged perfectly. Am I missing something?
An algorithm has no soul, or so they tell me.
They are deleting our history! They will come for our pioneers next! Prepare yourself for defense now!
Why do they need to search to purge anything at all?? Isn’t that the question we should be asking??
How is that the proper allocation of defence department resources? First of all, you are scrubbing history from a historically, proud organization,but apparently they’re too chickenshit to stand up to an idiot like Pete Hegseth? No pushback whatsoever guys? WTF.?
This guy is trouble , one of the most dangerous of trumps picks .
The ineptitude of Pete Hegseth is staggering.
toddlers running the kindergarten.
These people are so stupid.
A disgrace
White Washing is the name!
Hey Hegseth, when you gave the direction to remove all DEI contents exactly how many drinks or bottles of alcohol did you consume?
So what?
