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In an management afloat of SNL cold opens waiting to hap weekly, Pete Hegseth really retired did himself this week – and Colin Jost wasn’t moreover successful nan room.
Caught quoting lines of a phony Bible transition from Pulp Fiction as scripture Wednesday during a Pentagon ceremony, nan erstwhile Fox News big has go moreover much of a piñata to governmental foes and much than ever.
In afloat Donald Trump trolling mode, California’s Gavin Newsom whitethorn person taken nan prize successful roosting Hegseth coming arsenic nan video of nan look works started to circulate. Sure, nan station nan Golden State politician and apt 2028 POTUS campaigner put up mixed up characters from nan Quentin Tarantino classical by portraying Hegseth arsenic Uma Thurman alternatively than nan Samuel L. Jackson played hitman Jules that nan Defense Secretary was really quoting, but nan ocular was still beautiful striking.
In what would person apt been a profession slayer for nan overmuch mocked Hegseth successful immoderate different management different than nan 1 successful which Donald Trump is taking swipes astatine nan Pope, Sean Parnell, main Pentagon spokesman, put up a spirited defense of nan Defense Secretary, kinda. .
Online this AM, as my workfellow Ted Johnson reported, Parent wrote, “Secretary Hegseth connected Wednesday shared a civilization prayer, referenced arsenic nan CSAR prayer, utilized by nan brave warfighters of Sandy-1 who led nan daylight rescue ngo of Dude 44 Alpha retired of Iran, which was evidently inspired by speech in Pulp Fiction. However, some nan CSAR dream and nan speech in Pulp Fiction were reflections of nan verse Ezekiel 25:17, arsenic Secretary Hegseth intelligibly said successful his remarks astatine nan dream service. Anyone saying nan Secretary misquoted Ezekiel 25:17 is peddling clone news and ignorant of reality.”
Well, Tarantino and Jackson haven’t said anything, and possibly they ne'er will astir Hegseth’s belief recital.
On nan different hand, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, writer Don Winslow, tennis fable Martina Navratilova and POTUS’ ain niece (who has ne'er been a fan), were each among nan galore who took Hegseth to municipality Thursday for arsenic The Fatal Score scribe Winslow wrote, being a “clown.”
Dear @SecWar Pete Hegseth,
YOU ARE A CLOWN.
YOU ARE THE WORST SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IN THE HISTORY OF THIS NATION.
A CHILD. A CLOWN. A GOOF.
Who among america has not mistaken nan beatified words of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction for biblical scripture?
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) April 16, 2026Then again, pinch nan anticipation that personification connected Hegseth’s unit is really gaslighting him, erstwhile NBC News newsman Chuck Todd whitethorn person nailed it and Hegseth. The ex-Meet The Press anchor wrote that Hegseth “clearly sewage nan worst lawsuit of poser analyzable DC’s ever seen and that’s saying something.”
Poor Pete Hegseth, he’s intelligibly sewage nan worst lawsuit of poser analyzable DC’s ever seen and that’s saying something.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) April 16, 2026It really is – unless VP JD Vance decides to double down again connected his ain Pope Leo XIV slagging to impressment Trump.
BTW, SNL isn’t backmost until nan first week of May, so, astatine nan complaint nan Trump crowd measurement successful it, Hegseth’s fiasco astir apt will beryllium excessively aged news by them to make nan acold unfastened cut.
