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Social Media Users Accuse Pete Hegseth Of Being ‘Drunk’ At Hearing Following ‘Duck Lips’ Expressions

Attention was on the Defense Secretary's lips when he testified this week.

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Pete Hegseth, the self-styled “Secretary of War,” testified this week on Capitol Hill, mostly about the war in Iran.

Per the AP, the Secretary of Defense “faced tough questions Tuesday from Republican and Democratic lawmakers about the Trump administration’s end game for the Iran war, the conflict’s rising $29 billion cost and its impact on diminishing U.S. weapons stockpiles.”

“I take issue with the characterization that munitions are depleted in a public forum,” Hegseth said before Congress. “That’s not true.”

Per CBS News’ account, “Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared in back-to-back hearings before the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees as the Pentagon is seeking $1.5 trillion in the fiscal year 2027 budget proposal. That number is a starting point for negotiations with Congress over annual spending and would mark a 42% increase in defense spending from 2026 levels.”

But another thing got a different bit of attention: The Defense Secretary’s lips.

As noted by commentator Aaron Rupar, the lips were “on fleek”:

Some social media users had surprised comments about that.

The hearing and the reactions to it followed another mocking of Hegseth on Saturday Night Live, in which he was portrayed by Colin Jost, drinking at a bar with FBI Director Kash Patel (Aziz Ansari) and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Matt Damon), two other men whose reputations for drinking precede them:

Photo courtesy of an X screenshot. 

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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