Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was called out after he tried to cosplay as Tom Cruise’s Top Gun character—even though he doesn’t have a license to fly a plane.

Hegseth’s pilot fantasy crash-landed after a right-wing account on X, @BehizyTweets, gushed about a self-promotional video posted Tuesday of the secretary being flown around in a fighter jet featured on Top Gun: Maverick.

“It’s settled. Pete Hegseth has to be the coolest Secretary of Defense in American history. I had no idea this guy could fly planes,” the account posted.

X’s Community Notes, a crowd-sourced feature implemented to prevent the spread of misinformation on the platform, swiftly and succinctly corrected the post with two words:

“He can’t.”

Hegseth, 45, was a passenger on the goofy Top Gun flight. The FA-18 Sup

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