Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, you will know, summoned around 800 military brass to Quantico this week for a lecture about lethality, about wokeness, about warfighting, about shaving.

We're going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.

A lot about shaving.

No more beardos.

The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is junk.

President Trump, meanwhile, continuing to live every week like it's Shark Week, talked about all of it.

Be cool when you walk down, but don't bop down the stairs.

So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would

bop down those stairs. I've never said, da-na-da-da-da-da-da-p-p-ppup.

And threatened, yet again to deploy the military to American cities. Months ago, a texting scandal

threatened Pete Hegseth's future. In the aftermath, he's closer than ever to President Trump.

That's ahead on Today Explained.

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