D-DAY With Hegseth: From Speaking At The Memorial, To PT On Omaha Beach… Trump’s Guy Is Different

For all of Joe’s bluster about his committment to the military, we’ve now got someone who is running on the beach with the troops, instead of pushing vax mandates and getting them fired.

Three countries led the charge on five beaches on that day, with Uncle Sam taking its place on Omaha and Utah beaches, while Canada at Juno and the UK at Sword and Gold made up the difference. It was a day on which the the hopes of all modern concepts of free societies ultimately hinged.

It was a victory purchased at the price of a very great deal of blood and sacrifice. Today, Pete Hegseth stood up to commemorate that sacrifice.

The address he gave is cued up to the moment of his introduction in this video (his portion runs somewhere between 12 and 15 minutes long, including the pleasantries at the beginning):

The video for the entire ceremony will be provided at the bottom of the page, for those interested.

But Pete is a very different sort of leader than the guy he replaced:

The American public knew him as Lloyd Ausin. Biden, groping for names, knew him as ‘a black man’, apparently.

“It’s all about treating people with dignity,” Biden said. “It’s about making sure that— look for example, look at the heat I’m getting because I named a, the, secretary of defense, a Black man.” — NBC

(Sharp as a tack, that Joe Biden. Right KJP?)

Lloyd Austin was the kind of guy who would serve on the board at Raytheon. Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy who would mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day by doing PT with the trooms on the very same beaches that those young American heroes fought so hard to take from under Hitler’s boot.

Here’s footage of exactly that:

I had the privilege of doing PT at Omaha Beach. Where so many made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

We will never forget D-DAY. pic.twitter.com/a9GHG687A7

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) June 6, 2025

Full ceremony here: