Pete Hegseth warns Europe faces 'invasion' of 'dangerous ideologies' at D-Day

KJG15

If MAGA was in charge during WWII we wouldn’t have been fighting Hitler. America would’ve been Axis not Allies

Trump would have made a great deal with Hitler and given him nuclear weapons .

Jenny - Segregated and Unemployed8

Trump would have BRAGGED that it was coming

Middlerage7

Trump would have BEEN Hitler!

Matty - ICE is Domestic Terrorism7

Secretly? He would’ve tweeted it, signed his name and all (?)

Christian Petersen4

Remembering D-Day and what it stood for.

Cool Hand Spook™3

Everybody at Mar A Lago would know about it. Dumb fucker can't keep his mouth shut.

Fight The Sadistocracy2

They would be fighting with the nazis.

Dan Lamothe447

This per the traveling press pool report

daughterofwitches.bsky.social254

His parents owe the world a HUGE apology.

🏳️‍⚧️Loweredlifted191

He does realize that if refugees on boats are like Normandy, that means he's calling Europe Nazis (& thinks that is good), right?

jtunes6.bsky.social91

There’s a dangerous ideology that just landed at Normandy and Pete is speaking for it now. It’s called fascism. Oh the irony…

Scott FitzGerald77

Hegseth literally aligning himself with the Nazis... "we must resist the people storming our beaches".

jackson henry70

did he just um, equate American soldiers to immigrants, who he hates? what a weird pee-pants moron.

catscratch50

I think it is way past time this man, and others of that "administration", are banned from traveling to Europe.

Frank Huisingh49

The locals were very right in protesting his visit. bsky.app/profile/libe...

Lizzie O'Leary37

Wait seriously? This is real?

One True Sentence32

What were the original ‘dangerous ideologies’ that stormed the beaches (or is he as illiterate as he is bigoted)?

Brian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers.30

That's... weird. Like didn't D-Day involve Americans STORMING the beaches of fascist strongholds to free the countries from fascist murderers? Isn't Kegsbreath supposed to be, you know, on the side of the people going IN? Not the losers who murdered 10 million Jews?

That's Montgomery Clift, Honey27

He might as well just say "Hitler was right" (which he obviously believes) and be done with it.

Kat Benjamin22

As I wrote elsewhere, he's right. MAGA ideology, Christian Nationalist ideology, and Neo-Nazi ideology are all serious threats.

Roger O'Rama 🇺🇦 🐸21

All those guys who died on the beaches so he can spew this evil bullshit like some Temu Goebbels? The total disrespect to the veterans is disgusting.

Just_LookingK20

WTAF? 🤬 These hateful fools should be banned from other countries for their inciting of hatred 😡 F that nonsense ✋🏻

Mark Zohar20

Beyond utter disgust for his rancid racism, I have this one question for Hegseth: “Who do you think stormed the beaches on D-Day?”

mabilica 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇦19

He thinks the wrong side won the war.

A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦16

Absolutely repulsive. D-Day soldiers were fighting against this exact thing.

MB Brown16

Revolting. What a hateful individual he is.

Scott Craig Cigars15

What a piece of white Christian nationalist shit.

Psywarrior14

It's hard to believe a full on White Christian Nationalist is in charge of the military. Does he realize we actually fought white supremacists or is he thinking Normandy was to remember the Nazis who died at the battle?

Josh13

Comparing D day to border migration is a helluva thing for the head of the military to say ...

amackenz2028.bsky.social12

Everything he writes sounds like an eighth grader trying to sound "deep".

Hilary Wollis12

They don’t have to be invited to speak at such events. Everyone knows the remarks will be accusatory, fascist exaggerations. Take away their microphone.

Michelle Germann12

All I’d love is one normal day like we used to have.

Doktor Nikolaus Kuno Freiherr von Knatter11

As a German, I am very grateful that the Allies liberated Germany from a "Führer" who transformed the state into a fascist regime, cultivated a terrible cult of personality around himself, and constantly spread hatred, anti-Semitism, and racism, while despising democracy. Thank you!

Peter Butler11

It sounds like he's saying that dark-skinned people are invading Europe to kill light-skinned people

Carl S. Ergo Sum11

Make that fucker walk the cemeteries of Normandy to see how many people gave their lives to stop people like him.

👀11

He’s obsessed with the idea of invasion in Europe. Unless it’s Russia of course, who have actually invaded a country, killed thousands of civilians and stolen Ukrainian children.

H R Pickens11

I forget. Which side at Normandy was obsessed with preserving the racial purity of their nation?

Steven Glaros, M.A.11

So is Hegseth saying that the Americans, British, and Canadians (and other nations) that fought and died on the D-Day beaches were carrying a “dangerous ideology”? It seems so.

Ian B. Bautista10

Hegseth’s White-supremacist xenophobia is gross.

Michael Markman10

Now that Orbán has been vanquished, the most threatening ideologies to Europe (and the rest of the world) are Trumpism and Hegsethism. I hope that Europe has the will and the fortitude to repel the invaders.

Bean, the Malkavian -- Anti-FishMalk10

"Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies." Yeah, no shit, Hegseth. They let you in. Hard to get a more "dangerous ideology" than MAGA.

🇺🇸 Larry Herbison ❌👑 🇬🇱10

Xenophobic moron. The history of the world is about migration. That's how we became who we are. If we restrict who future people can be, we guarantee entrenched hatred and conflict

Caveman Fella10

Could they create any more reasons for the whole world to hate America?

Lauren Merry Vale (they/she)9

Absolutely disgusting. A total disgrace. I have SO many revenge fantasies about these motherf*ckers I swear to god 🤬 💀

¯\_(ツ)_/¯9

Uh, did someone fail to tell Pete that the boats on D-Day were the good guys? He won't let a poorly done metaphor get in the way of doing a racism on a solemn occasion.

I should probably just shut up9

So wait, the Allies brought "dangerous ideologies" to Nazi-occupied France? Given who Hegseth is, that totally tracks.

Michael J. Steudeman9

so in this metaphor, the people arriving on the beaches are the baddies. And the Nazis were good guys. Do I have that right?

Big Brain9

It’s really stunning to watch almost everyone in a presidential administration act with no shame and then be treated by much of the press with a shrug and a pass on the depravity. Really stunning.

Facelifts are ugly, pass it on9

Written like a super racist 4th grader

Interesting Times8

"When will European capitals do something about that invasion?" Does he realize he's implying that they should have done something about D-Day? And that the US was an invader? What a truly stupid person.

Diamond Life8

Maybe if the United States stops blowing up people in the Middle East and the Russians stop destabilizing African countries there wouldn’t be as much immigration. And don’t get me started on Cuba and Venezuela. This hypocrisy exhibited by the head of the department of war truly rings hollow.

Wendy M. A. Darling8

Not enough bad things can happen to Pete Hegseth, and they can’t happen soon enough.

Cwnidog7

He probably thinks that the wrong side won.

Happening Again7

Hegseth at the D-Day anniversary talking like a fascist Disgusting. Hair raisingly disgusting

Ellin Stein7

What is going through that alcohol-addled brain? That the Allies were storming the beaches to promote a dangerous ideology (democracy, presumably)? That European capitals should have repelled them? That unarmed immigrants are the same as the world's biggest amphibious fighting force?

crispy7

Someone should ask him to explain the lack of logic behind his abhorrent and ignorant statement. Not that it would make a difference to that hateful ghoul.

Passing Strange At Present7

I cannot begin to express my rage at this person (clearly, not a man) and his weaponization of ignorance, cruelty, racism, misogyny, et cetera, et nauseam. Yet he insults and disparages our actual allies, from WW2 to the present.

Steve 7

I swear I thought this was the Onion at first.

Alison Denham5

Every time he opens his mouth he confirms his stupidity.

Dr Robin5

Two of Trump’s wives were immigrants and I’m not so sure that last one came here legally. Do they even listen to themselves?

elaine5

Awful and disgusting speech. Remembering that Hegseth was barred from his National Guard deployment to secure Biden's inauguration after he was flagged as a potential insider threat.

Johann S 🇨🇮🇺🇦 ⬅️5

US can’t even hold its own against Iranian speedboats these days. Let alone take an Iranian beach. Wherever Ike is now, would really like to hear his opinion.

toastfuker 5

What does he think the original dangerous ideology was?

Mark Brandriss5

Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece? Sounds like he's really angry about British holiday travelers. I think he's overreacting.

James Bottomley5

He literally would have been on the Nazi side at D Day.

🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦 💪🏼👊🏼5

This man has absolutely no idea of history and zero respect for it. He just wants to spew his Christian Nationalism wherever he goes. It’s sickening.

Grand Sophy4

"Men arrive." Do the women and children who arrive upset his narrative, and therefore must be ignored?

Rebel Scum4

He would straight up slam the door in Mary and Joseph’s face if they were looking for shelter.

X&der4

Why in gods name is heghead even talking about immigrants at normandy????

Kamitorrorga4

Get this culture war BS out of earshot of the graves of liberators! What an insufferable pissant.

Peter NL 🇪🇺4

People arrive in boats due to wars that destabilized the Middle East… and how started these wars again? So what ideology should we fear? Those who create wars perhaps?

Tony Jones4

Someone better tell him - his side LOST.

Cantankerous Kelly4

Translation: The USA has become the axis.

PhotonPainter4

Someone shut that fuck up.

Ashigaru Spearman4

What idiot invited him to speak? I expect a nazi to do nazi shit. Stop giving them the opportunities!!

Mike Leake4

How despicable do you have to be to use the anniversary of the UK-US-Canadian-Polish-French (plus others) invasion to make a prejudiced political point?

Prosediva4

What a vile and repulsive thing to say. May this pos walk into the sea. An utter humiliation.

Gail and Jasper4

He has no idea that the people are being displaced by the American bombings and Israeli actions. What a bellend he is.

US Asunder4

20 years NATO countries sent troops to die in Afghanistan. Don't focus on his White Christian Nationalist agenda... The ultimate objective, is to justify betraying the NATO agreement... in order for Trump is paying his debt to Putin.

(CMDR) Alan Crowe4

He is suggesting that the allied forces that stormed the beaches 82 years ago represented a dangerous ideology. The ideology they represented was liberty. A dangerous ideology if you are part of the Trump regime.

The (not so) Secret Customs Broker4

Only a small part of it, but; Bulgaria? Are refugees really crossing 1000km of The Black Sea in small boats in order to get to Varna or Burgas?

AgnesOfTheDogs4

I'm not sure I could despise Hegseth more

dredecopp.bsky.social3

Canada had enough of that rhetoric back during our 2015 election: www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Dave N.3

What a racist piece of shit. Fuck anyone who still supports this bullshit and fuck the media for normalizing this behavior.

Mike in MT3

A failed National Guard civil affairs major lecturing about invasions and soldiering...

ordinary-observer.bsky.social3

Both Russia & also the USA are using the same (as it's called in Russia) "political technologies" to sew divisions in European societies. They're actively trying to enflame hostilities between the political right (fascists) and the far-left, thus hollowing out the pro-EU & pro-unity political center

Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧3

5 million Indians volunteered to fight for Britain in WW2. Some of their descendants now live in the U.K. Man’s an idiot.

Mike Billips3

He’s just cribbing from “Homelander” at this point.

massholio.bsky.social3

He’s a disgrace to the memory of the men who stormed those beaches. He’s completely clueless that those beaches were stormed to defeat HIS ideology.

Janny3

Is he talking about himself and his dangerous bullshit?

John Kapitzky3

What a black eye for the United States to have Hegseth

Sandra3

"Sadly, today different South American waters, & a different Iranian country is being stormed by the same different dangerous ideology that we fought when we stormed the beaches at Normandy. Even as we speak we are threatening a wave of future invasions targeting Cuba and Greenland. When will the/2

Debbie Coffee3

Weren't the beaches of Normandy stormed by the good guys...led by the Americans?

T. Boone Doggle3

Christ almighty. I think I liked the “old days” when Trump worried about his hair getting wet and about Justin Trudeau making him look like a pussy.

happyrumrunner.bsky.social3

sometimes I *hope* he's drunk

CV54803

The old line about problems with Yanks: Overpaid, over-sexed and over here.

Cerulean Man 🐝 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 🐶3

Drunk man-child says what? Zero respect for the day or the dead. I hate him with all my heart - decent Americans must be mortified.

Autumn3

The only thing that dude prays to is his own reflection.

Lynn Hughes3

Why does the Trump administration think it has the answer to everything when their own country is such a shitshow at the moment? They should just be laughed at, publically and very loudly

Mark Bare3

Disgrace to the fallen buried there

Lecohonah13

From Europe: Can you guys please 86 this Nazi idiot?

emduwel.bsky.social3

Yes, not least because we were (ahem) the invaders. And our dangerous ideology was democracy—not all that different from the aspirations of many of the people in the boats. Except the fact that they are desperate.

Billy Birdman, D.O.2

What a piece of shit

johangrills.bsky.social2

My god he's a cretin.

grollen2

If only by 'do something' he meant take more decisive action to mitigate anthropogenic climate disruption and the costs which will continue to fall disproportionately upon the global East/South or address the enduring legacies of colonialism ...

Jonno2

Hegseth views dday as a tragedy not a triumph

joschein.bsky.social2

D Day is a day of mourning for him.

Mark Streich 2

Hegseth would have been on the side of the Nazis.

Womble19582

Shut up Hegseth you pathetic plastic Christian 🤡🤮

Annette2

They should ever be allowed to speak again. They are not fit for decent company.

Hank G2

Someone had been reading The Camp of Saints too much recently…

Beverly Mann2

Yes, always special to have a US Sec'y of Defense conflate the German military invasions of European countries with migrants, since the similarities include militaries complete with bomber planes and military tanks, and actual takeovers of the invaded country's government.

Makes no sense on any level. The allies were not claiming asylum! Wtf!!!

virgotex2

IF, by some freaky glitch of space/time, William the Conqueror found himself on the beach w/Hegseth, he'd probably slap the snot right out of him. Soviet Union: ~24–27 million China: ~15–20 million deaths Germany: ~5.3–7.4 million deaths Poland: ~6 million deaths Japan: ~2.5–3.1 million

Zora O'Neill2

Horrific. May these neo-Nazis all die an early death.

Dale Chapman2

Let's bracket the thing for a second where he formulates an analogy that makes the Allies the bad guys of WW2 He also claims "dangerous ideologies" drive the "invasion," as if it's 2003 and we're pretending that every migrant from the region is a Wahabi sect terrorist bent on our annihilation

WhiteUnderbabiedAmericanCat2

stand back everybody. Pete hegseth is praying. Give him some room. F’ing douche

Sonia2

Yeah. They're full of Americans.

MaryinMn2

I pray that the people of America wake up and realize that our country is fast becoming what we once feared. Our "leaders" have no place in polite society.

Hold My Beer ❌👑🐸🇲🇽🇨🇦21

I can't even believe what we're witnessing right now, in the year 2026.

missthesmith.bsky.social20

Does he know that D-Day marks the beginning of the end of white supremacists in Europe? Someone should tell him.

TheOriginalMizD16

Another embarrassment for the U S…

stuart1945.bsky.social13

Oh look here are some of those dark skinned problems that came to Europe in 1944. They came to fight Fascist, you know, their ANTIFA. The people Hegseth and Trump hate, being Fascists them selves.

kdr-0137.bsky.social10

I find listening to Hegseth exhausting. His cadence is unlike anything I’ve heard before. It’s as if he has a thesaurus in his head that searches for the the most bombastic and truculent word for whatever he’s trying to say. But there is this slight delay that gives off this weird and odd vibe.

George the Cat9

WTAF is wrong with Hegseth and MAGA republicans? Racist, thieving, corrupt cult 🤬

Craig Carlisle8

Such an absolutely vile, unqualified, drunk on power and booze, racist, sexist, homophobic sociopathic asshat.

Hypothetical Truth7

I wrote this when I was just getting started, and I apologize for the amateur editing. Getting tired of this, but let me remind you. He was never a Military leader. He is a disgraced National Guard Major. substack.com/@hypotruths/...

He is supported by the millions of religious wingnuts who are the Christian Republican Cult. They live a 'faith-based' life and are easily conned. Their leaders are fraudsters-writ-large, who should be behind bars. That is the heart of the cult. America has been captured by them. This must end.

durhamgal.bsky.social4

Why was he allowed to speak!

ByrneBabyByrne3

Never has the quote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” been more true. This roided out miscreant should not be a representative of our armed forces. It can only be hoped that he faces a Nuremberg-type trial in the future.

Joseph S. Harrington2

I repeat myself when I say that calling desperate migrants "invaders" is like calling shipwrecked people "pirates" for trying to board a passing vessel. So utterly inappropriate, insensitive, and STUPID.

John M. Murphy2

Says the guy who reports to Bonespurs, the "suckers and losers" guy.

bcmom24.bsky.social2

Gawdalmighty! Europe -- world -- I'm sorry. SMH in embarassment and shame.

Scotland2

Hegseth is a complete psycho,even he knows it.

Honest Man2

Hegseth's end will come with a prison cell.

Don Comer2

Spent a week in London never been there before took the Tube all over & walked miles poking around. Had a great time. Some want us scared of the cosmopolitan mix jostling, bustling, scurrying the full cast of characters not tribal enough for comfort but it filled me with hope.

Seabird2

Fail. Europeans are sensitive about fascism they might even eviscerate him. What an embarrassment.

Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿2

Who invited a #Nazi to a D-Day commemoration?

Rebecca Joy Bingham2

“Honorable” is doing some heavy lifting in that title.

Jill Houlbrook2

He shows contempt for all who fell and those who came home changed forever. He has made it quite plain that the American government is a danger to us all. Fascism and hate comes not from Europe but from across the Atlantic. Wake up Britain.

Yari no Yūsha ⚛️2

Hegseth is a god damn Nazi piece of fucking shit.

Bryan Marchese2

Honorable my fucking ass. Bitch you were kicked out the guard you weekend warrior Gomer Pyle ass fuck.

Keith Pentz2

No one seems to ever discuss the “white” invasion that created so many issues for persons now seeking opportunity in the areas that first invaded…as a generational member of that Northern European community that committed the atrocities, I have to actively strive to find corrective opportunities

Adelle Loiselle2

I’m wondering if judges in European courts could simply impose an injunction against his arrival? Border officials deny entry into their jurisdiction all the time to ordinary people all the time. He’s support for a criminal organization should be disqualifying

LouFromBoston2

This day should also be referred to as Anti Fascism Day. A government that criticizes “Antifa” (in principle) is revealing their cards; they believe in fascism. This is Trump and Heritage Foundation.

Panama Red2

Daddy said, "Your mommy's right, she's really up on things. Before we married, Mommy served in the WACs in the Philippines." Now I had heard that WACs recruited old maids for the war, But Mommy's neither one of those, I've known her all these years. -- Cheap Trick, "Surrender"

IanPolitics #FBPE2

of all the days to sink so low.

vermicula.bsky.social2

Yes. My parents were both in the Navy and I’m glad they are not here to witness what has become of the country.

Hutch4

Really? Nearly 500,000 Latino soldiers served in World War II overall w many at Normandy. 2 such soldiers: Guillermo Fabela brother-in-law of César Chávez, parachuted on D-Day w 101st Airborne, 2 Purple Hearts, Bronze Star. Pvt. Andrew Ortega of Anaheim, Utah Beach clearing obstacles & mines.

Robert Graves3

Jesus. Make it all stop please. I wish they would have kicked him out of the country.

Karen Morris3

My father was involved in DDay and I know that if he were still alive, he would detest Pete Hegseth. I suspect that a majority of those soldiers who fought in Europe during WW2 would also have no respect for Hegseth.

mskellyyy.bsky.social3

The most dangerous and unqualified person to do this job.

Sunset Cove2

Hegseth is a fucking War Criminal!

ala8.bsky.social2

Trump law enforcement acts like what the Nazis did

Ed Macdonald7

He is America's second most repugnant lazy racist diddler. He lives on the dire lack of self respect in the people around him.

For Hegseth, et al, “civilization” means white Christian men. No more, no less.

Nan 🟦🪬🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 △📎6

He's a disgrace to our Military.

🖇🌊AntiIgnoramiAnya🌊4

Kegsbreath is the abominable snowflake

Seabird3

2 bit Fox commentator trying to be a statesman.He’s an embarrassment to Americans.

Don Comer2

Spent a week in London never been there before took the Tube all over & walked miles poking around. Had a great time. Some want us scared of the cosmopolitan mix jostling, bustling, scurrying the full cast of characters not tribal enough for comfort but it filled me with hope.

pixels sideways2

He's just flat-out stupid, arrogant, violent, and useless. People forget his domestic violence, rape case, fraudulent financial mgt, white xtian nationalist tats which were even a bridge too far for the NG. You could not pick a worse person to head our DOD.

Don Hoskins | 🍁 True North Strong & Free!🍁3

I'm still trying to figure out what a "dangerous ideology" is... Different ideologies aren't dangerous, except probably his... His problem is way simpler than ideologies... He's just a garden variety white racist pig... America's full of them... 🤷‍♂️

Baltotrain2

I’m pretty sure that on June 6, 1944 Nazi propaganda would have declared, “Sadly today European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.” I don’t think Kegsbreath gets the meaning of the moment. Just guessing.

nromenzer.bsky.social2

people voted for his, the ones to blames are the retarded people who voted for this to happens

Educated sneering blob and mob2

He would send the American army to defend Berlin

Carolyn Castor2

Hegseth is speaking to the right-wing bigots across Europe. We are fighting a bigger war than just for democracy in the US. We must defeat MAGA ✊