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President Donald Trump’s secretary of war summoned 800 of the US’s top commanders and put them on notice that ‘fat troops’ and ‘dudes in dresses’ will not longer be tolerated.
Pete Hegseth and Trump told generals and admirals who flew in from Europe, Asia and around the world for an unusual gathering in Quantico, Virginia, that there will be new fitness standards and ‘woke’ policies will be erased.
Hegseth, whose title has not yet been officially changed from secretary of defense, said he was ‘tired of seeing fat troops’.
‘It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world,’ he said from Mar