There were plenty of dumb hot takes from the left after a Tuesday speech by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to an assembled audience of generals and admirals, but CBS’s Stephen Colbert may have had the dumbest. For some reason, The Late Show host tried to tie Hegseth’s observation that the people in the crowd “kill people and break things” to other ongoing conversations about the need to dial down inflammatory political rhetoric.
Colbert also didn’t seem to understand who Hegseth’s audience was as he introduced a clip of the speech, “Because in the actual speech, Hegseth went five-star douche, and at one point, pegged the camera with what he was sure was gonna be an applause line.”
In the clip, Hegseth declared, “Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. In other words, to our enemies: FAFO.”
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