Trump and Hegseth Destroy The American Military? MAGA Official Enraged By Trump Firing
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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Trump and Hegseth are firing military officials at an alarming rate.
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| 0:00.0 | In the throes of this illegal, unnecessary, ridiculous war with Iran, Pete Hegeseth, |
| 0:11.5 | everybody knows has been on a maniacal firing spree, and now he has fired the country's |
| 0:18.6 | top Navy official, pop this up. Secretary of the Navy, John C. Phelan, is departing the administration effective. |
| 0:26.6 | Immediately on behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department of the United States Navy. |
| 0:35.6 | We wish him well in his future endeavors. |
| 0:38.9 | Under Secretary Hung Cal will be acting Secretary of the Navy, Josh. |
| 0:45.5 | Doesn't sound like an ideal time to lose your secretary. |
| 0:52.0 | But you know, there's, I'm sure there's so many layers of dysfunction in the military |
| 0:57.6 | right now. |
| 0:58.6 | I mean, this isn't the first purge of what I would deem some sort of a disagreement with |
| 1:05.1 | lower officials. |
| 1:06.5 | I mean, this has been coming for some time. |
| 1:08.6 | Could you imagine Pete Hexseff being your boss? |
| 1:11.4 | Could you imagine taking orders from him? It's kind of scary. |
| 1:15.6 | It is. I just immediately saw this and thought Pete Hegseff has purged everybody in the military for a variety of reasons. |
| 1:26.8 | I think the most recent, |
| 1:28.0 | I don't know about this man in particular, but always it comes down in my mind to win the public |
| 1:37.6 | officials, the senators and the representatives in the house that are military members, |
| 1:43.2 | when they came out and told the military, you do not have to comply with illegal orders. |
| 1:50.0 | Pete Hexseth and MAGA melted down. So I immediately knew that they were giving illegal orders because unless you're not, if you're not giving illegal orders, it doesn't matter. |
| 2:03.1 | And then I think the most recent round of firearms, they were fired, in my opinion, for the illegal |
| 2:08.1 | orders, but because Hexeth did not want to promote women and black people that had earned |
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