Pete Hegseth

President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will retaliate” for the murder of three Americans in Syria, which he described as an “ISIS attack.”

President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, discrediting anonymous reports claiming otherwise.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said if Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of people shipwrecked, it was “clearly illegal.”

A divided Washington, DC, federal appeals court upheld the Trump Pentagon’s policy, which rejected military service for individuals who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said the “double-tap strike” on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea was “essentially murder.”

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats were a “form of extrajudicial killing.”

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said all the people on a Venezuelan drug boat subject to the Trump administration crackdown in the Caribbean were “valid targets.”

Friday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Admiral Bradley should be “concerned about legal liability” for the boat strikes in the Caribbean.

U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday that American forces carried out a lethal kinetic strike in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four suspected narco‑terrorists and destroying their heavily laden smuggling vessel. The attack, directed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth under Operation Southern Spear, marks the 22nd strike against cartel‑linked traffickers in international waters and brings the total number of narco‑terrorists killed to nearly 90. The strikes continue despite harsh criticism from some lawmakers in Congress.

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) called on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to be fired because he was “disrespectful to the military.”

U.S. Central Command has launched a new task force deploying America’s first one-way “suicide drone” squadron in the Middle East, saying the move “sets the conditions for using innovation as a deterrent” as Iran and its proxies escalate low-cost attacks across the region.

Thursday on CNN’s “News Central,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said while he was relieved to hear Secretary of War Pete Hegseth did not give an order to “kill everybody,” he said it was “very questionable” that the survivors of the September boat strike in the Caribbean could have been considered to still be in the fight.

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) announced Wednesday that he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, referencing a resurfaced 2016 remark on war crimes as questions mount over a U.S. military strike that killed survivors of a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.

The New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of War over its press policy that has frustrated some journalists.

On Wednesday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) argued the “uniformed military may help save us from” President Donald Trump.

The far-left Washington Post published another in a long line of shameless and desperate hoaxes last week, this one aimed at Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, only to have it debunked by the far-left New York Times (and reality).

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said if the reports that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill everyone on board a boat in the Caribbean, that was an “illegal order.”

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “is the most unqualified secretary of defense we’ve ever had in the history of our country, by far.”

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” network host Rachel Maddow predicted Republican lawmakers will ask Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to resign because of a report alleging impropriety over his handling of drug boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that the United States military has “only just begun” its campaign against suspected narco terrorists.

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth could be impeached over the follow-up strike on a drug boat in the Caribbean in September.

Canada’s “Franklin the Turtle” publisher released a statement Monday condemning Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s meme.

Monday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said the United States was on the “wrong side” if survivors were killed during a follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September. Host Lawrence

Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was a known liar who is “hiding something” about the follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September.

Monday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth must resign, or President Donald Trump should fire him over the follow-up strike on a drug boat in the Caribbean in September.

Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) reacted to the White House confirming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized the follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September by calling it “incompetence at the highest level.”

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed the Trump administration’s first military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean was either a “war crime” or “murder.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) claimed the Trump administration’s first military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean was a “war crime.”

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared that the United States has “only just begun to kill narco-terrorists,” a blunt call to escalate direct action against cartel operatives. Hegseth reinforced the message in a separate post, vowing that the campaign against transnational drug cartels has entered a new phase.

Pete Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer, spent Thanksgiving with Sailors and Marines stationed at sea, where the Secretary of War delivered a message of gratitude from the pilot house of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.

Comedy Central animated series “South Park” took aim at President Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Wednesday, calling him a “douchebag,” in an episode that aired on the same day that two National Guard members were gunned down by a radicalized Afghan migrant in Washington D.C.

President Donald Trump addressed the nation after three people were shot, including two National Guardsmen, in Washington, D.C.

Republicans and conservative voices blasted what they called Democrats’ “vile,” “dangerous,” and “reckless” rhetoric toward the National Guard, arguing that days of escalating attacks from leading Democrats have “put a target on the backs of every person in uniform” and created real-world danger for service members — pointing to Wednesday’s shooting of two Guardsmen near the White House as the latest consequence.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, has been identified as the suspect in the shooting of two national guardsmen.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that President Donald Trump has requested an additional 500 National Guardsmen be deployed to Washington following the shooting of two Guardsmen near the White House on Thanksgiving eve.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will visit the Dominican Republic on Wednesday amid Operation Southern Spear’s fight against drug trafficking.