President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared an end to “woke” culture in the military and targeted other policies of past administrations Tuesday before hundreds of top U.S. military officials who were abruptly summoned to Virginia from around the world.

Hegseth announced new directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness, while Trump bragged about U.S. nuclear capabilities and said the nation's “dangerous cities” should be used as "training grounds for our military.”

In an interview on Wednesday, Colorado Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger, offered his reaction to the speech.

"Yesterday was a grotesque and appalling display of culture war rhetoric to a group of some of our finest military commanders

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