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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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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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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