Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forging ahead with his war on waistlines.

Hegseth, who has rebranded himself as President Donald Trump’s “Secretary of War,” doubled down Sunday on his verbal attack on “fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon,” capping off a week where he declared that, from now on, military leaders will need to meet height and weight standards and pass physical training (PT) tests each year.

During an interview on Fox News, the former anchor compared his tough-on-grooming stance to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s tough-on-crime policing strategy in the 1990s.

“If you don’t police the small stuff, if you let the beards go and the bellies go and the uniforms go and the fitness standards go, pretty soon the big stuff goes,” Hegseth, 45, said.

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