"On a Pentagon town hall on February 7, 2025, Hegseth called “our diversity is our strength” the “single dumbest phrase in military history.” Then, on May 23, 2026, he carried the same soggy little banner to West Point’s graduating class and told our future defenders of the Constitution, “Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength.” And by unity, he means unity without diversity.
"Hegseth managed to insult a lot of dead soldiers in one white nationalist speech.
"Hegseth insulted the soldiers Washington picked up by the throat in Harvard Yard. He insulted the soldiers who died at Lexington and at Concord and at Bunker Hill and at Trenton and at Princeton and at Saratoga and at Yorktown. He insulted the Marblehead fishermen. He insulted the racially mixed army who rowed Washington across the Delaware on Christmas night of 1776, with muffled oars and a river full of ice. He insulted the soldiers of the 442nd, who went to war for a country that had locked up their parents.
"Pete Hegseth insulted every man buried in every military cemetery this country has filled since 1775.
"Those soldiers did not die for a unity built on removal."
The US should end the standing army and use state militia model like the founding fathers wanted.
"We" and "our" are simply not in Trump's vocabulary so, of course, everything must be referred to as "my" troops, generals, ships, etc.
Well-written
"On a Pentagon town hall on February 7, 2025, Hegseth called “our diversity is our strength” the “single dumbest phrase in military history.” Then, on May 23, 2026, he carried the same soggy little banner to West Point’s graduating class and told our future defenders of the Constitution, “Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength.” And by unity, he means unity without diversity.
"Hegseth managed to insult a lot of dead soldiers in one white nationalist speech.
"Hegseth insulted the soldiers Washington picked up by the throat in Harvard Yard. He insulted the soldiers who died at Lexington and at Concord and at Bunker Hill and at Trenton and at Princeton and at Saratoga and at Yorktown. He insulted the Marblehead fishermen. He insulted the racially mixed army who rowed Washington across the Delaware on Christmas night of 1776, with muffled oars and a river full of ice. He insulted the soldiers of the 442nd, who went to war for a country that had locked up their parents.
"Pete Hegseth insulted every man buried in every military cemetery this country has filled since 1775.
"Those soldiers did not die for a unity built on removal."
https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/hegseth-says-diversity-is-our-strength