PETE HEGSETH: Newly Sworn In, He’s Already Racked Up His First Big Win
Mutineers take note, Pete isn't playing your games

If the neverTrump ‘resist’ crowd thought they could subvert the agenda in 2025 the way they did in 2017, they’re about to have a rude awakening.
Trump learned a thing or two during his time in the political wilderness. He hasn’t just licked his wounds, he’s some back with a strategy to stick government back in the box it was designed to fit in.
He came back with a mandate and he’s not afraid to implement it. You can see the change in the personnel choices he’s making this time around. He’s getting some absolute door-kickers overseeing departments that have been more than happy to run as rogues… in some cases showing open mutiny against the Commander-in-Chief and back-channeling with hostile nations.
Not this time.
Chain of command. Results. Accountability.
On Friday night, JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote (thanks for nothing ‘leader’ McConnell) that saw Pete Hegseth confirmed as Trump’s SecDef. Right from the beginning, you could see the tone was very different from the Biden days.
(The image is ‘clickable’ if you want to check out what he said.)
Unlike the slacker Hegseth replaced from the Biden days, the guy who went AWOL without so much as notifying his subordinates he was incommunicado, Pete Hegseth didn’t wait until Monday morning to show up for work. For anyone keeping score at home, the 25th was Saturday.
Before the weekend was done, he had already scored his first victory against the would-be mutineers, and set a zero-tolerance expectation for the next 4 years of Trump’s time in office: FAFO.
Here’s how the short-lived mutiny played out.
ACT I: The Lawful Order
ACT II: The Malicious Compliance
The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training.
In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.” — AP
As pointed out by Ron DeSantis, the left has a malicious compliance tactic they like to use when forced to roll yield back any ground they’ve taken. They look for ways to make the conservative’s changes look bigoted or cruel.
The same party that had spent years weaponizing cancel culture to chase everything from To Kill A Mocking Bird, to Huck Finn, to Dr. Seuss out of libraries — and sometimes even off of Amazon selling lists — had the audacity to claim that concerned parents saying school libraries were not an appropriate place for books with graphic sex scenes were some how ‘banning books’. It became an official talking point, and part of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ criticism of Florida law that forbade introduction of sexual materials or terminology of any sort before third grade.
At no point did either Trump or Hegseth so much as imply that historical units like those mentioned should be struck from teaching. Just like a GOP school curriculum would never dream of omitting the historical importance of slavery in our shared history. But, as you can see by the compliant media who rushed to share this story right after Hegseth was confirmed, there is message coordination on the left between the political class and the journos who act as their megaphones.
ACT III — SecDef Takes Charge
A Senator brought it to his attention…
And Pete responded post-haste.
ACT IV: Brought To Heel
Keen observers will notice that the difference in these 2 time stamps is only 4 hours apart.
It won’t take many examples of public rebuke or dismissal with cause before the rebellion is put down.
It’s amazing how quickly change can happen when the guy in charge isn’t just another Raytheon man, isn’t it?