"No More Fatties" - Pete Hegseth RIPS Overweight Generals In HISTORIC Military Meeting
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Pete Hegseth calls out “fat generals” and pushes for higher fitness standards in the U.S. military. The panel reacts to his tough message, Sunny Hostin’s criticism on The View, and the broader debate over discipline, readiness, and woke policies in the armed forces. Pat, Tom, Vinnie, and Brandon break down why military strength starts with physical standards and leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | Pete Hacksett wants you to get in shape, folks, and he's like sick of it. |
| 0:04.6 | Okay? |
| 0:05.2 | No more, you know, eating cheesecake six nights a week and putting on weight and you can only run a two mile in 17 minutes and 58 seconds. |
| 0:13.8 | He wants you to get in shape. |
| 0:15.7 | And some people don't like that. |
| 0:17.2 | Some people want their military veterans to be little fatties going out there to where they get |
| 0:21.5 | tired after jogging for two minutes, like the people at the view. But Pete wants you to be in shape. |
| 0:27.6 | Pete wants you to do pull-ups, push-ups, get back into masculine soldiers that we have. And this is a |
| 0:33.5 | speech that he gave, and some people are not happy about this. Go ahead, Rob. |
| 0:38.7 | It's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. |
| 0:45.2 | Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the |
| 0:49.2 | Pentagon. |
| 0:49.7 | Oh, fat generals. |
| 0:50.7 | And leading commands around the country in the world. |
| 0:52.4 | It's a bad. |
| 0:53.7 | It is bad. Damn. It's not who we are. Okay. So listen, that's fat shaming to some people, right? He continues. Rob, is this another one? Yeah, I have a bunch of clips. This is him talking about him not wanting his sons to fight with overweight troops. He doesn't want that. |
| 1:11.3 | Go ahead, Rob. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape. |
| 1:15.7 | Or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men. |
| 1:21.0 | Or troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons platform or task. |
| 1:26.1 | Or under a leader who was the first but not the best standards must |
| 1:33.0 | be uniform gender neutral and high okay so he's saying this now sonny host then rob if you can find |
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