Trump nominates Fox News host Pete Hegseth to head Department of Defense in snub to former Dem Rep Tulsi Gabbard
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is nominating Fox News host and decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary. The 44-year-old deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and won two Bronze Stars, then unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News. ‘Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First,’ Trump said in a statement, as he spent much of Tuesday adding to his cabinet.
Inside Melania Trump’s extraordinary glow-up: From eye-popping to truly presidential (no wonder Ivanka looks furious!)
Looking at the Trump family assembled on stage in West Palm Beach last week, you might have thought they’d gathered for a cocktail party rather than a victory speech. Sequins, shoulder pads and stilettos dominated in a line-up of plastic – and identikit – perfection. Even Ivanka’s disco-esque blue crushed-velvet pantsuit, as ill-fitting as it was wrinkled, failed to add the pizzazz that might have lifted her above the group.
Lunatic ‘sex bans’ and self-care snowflakery: MAUREEN CALLAHAN says the Trump win meltdown proves liberals are more delusional than ever
Well, well, well: the republic stands. And dumbstruck liberals can’t cope. Supporters wept outside Howard University as Kamala Harris conceded. Columbia, Harvard, and New York’s exclusive Fieldston School offered students days off to grieve — ‘hold space’, as they love to say, for what might have been. Georgetown University opened ‘self-care suites’ where students and faculty could color, play with Lego and have milk and cookies ‘in recognition of these stressful times’. Northwestern and Princeton did the same.