On Veterans Day, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth visited Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with some aides. Hegseth and his crew were being rowdy and loud, and they stopped to take a group photo. Someone – probably not Whiskey Pete – was heard loudly laughing after taking the photo. That’s when a soldier, one of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, yelled: “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!”
A Tomb Guard from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, “The Old Guard” was forced to verbally reprimand Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and loudly talked in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
Video of the incident, posted by CNN, shows Hegseth standing and taking photos in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver as well as senior adviser and deputy assistant Tami Radabaugh, following a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day.
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) November 11, 2026
According to People Magazine, this came AFTER the annual wreath-laying ceremony- this was Hegseth and his team acting like they were at a keg party as they stood in the middle of Arlington, surrounded by the graves of the men and women who gave their lives in service to the United States. It’s massively disrespectful and Hegseth should be ashamed. A spokesperson for the Pentagon released this statement: “The Secretary and the entire Department have always honored—and will always honor—the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep America safe. While commemorating this solemn day, a soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum.” Well, at least they didn’t attack the soldier. Probably because there was video of Hegseth and his aides’ arrogance and disrespect.
wow — CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE … PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier https://t.co/430uEKRRp5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 11, 2026
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- United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks alongside US President Donald J Trump during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on May 27, 2026. Trump is holding the meeting with members of his Cabinet as a the US and Iran creep closer to a deal. Featuring: Donald J Trump, Pete Hegseth Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 27 May 2026 Credit: Samuel Corum/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media while signing an executive order for the US Department of Defense to be renamed the US Department of War in the Oval Office of the White House Featuring: Pete Hegseth Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 05 Sep 2025 Credit: Francis Chung/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- President Donald Trump conducts a press conference in the James S Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, expected to take questions on the Iran War and oil prices Featuring: Pete Hegseth Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 06 Apr 2026 Credit: Yuri Gripas/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, testifies during the US Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing to examine the Department of War budget request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Featuring: Pete Hegseth Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 30 Apr 2026 Credit: Andrew Thomas/CNP/INSTARimages
I am so tired of these people. But at least the MAGA fever seems to be breaking. People are starting to call them out on their nonsense.
The fever is breaking, as you say, @Mumster, but it’s a toss-up whether the sanity, once recovered, will produce any reckoning. Hegseth just dodged impeachment because — in part — Democrats declined to impeach him. to which I can only say WTF.
WTF indeed. Some of these Democrats are so unserious. They need to get their shit together.
The Democrats will impeach him themselves and be in charge of the entire procedure. And Johnson shutdown the vote knowing that there were members of both parties on their way.
This. All the newly elected Democrats in the Senate and House of Reps haven’t been sworn in yet, that doesn’t happen until January. Right now, it’s the old status quo as to who has power and the votes in the chambers. Now, come January, if we don’t see some real action and change, that will be a different discussion that might involve me throwing hands.
The Republicans have been in charge of literally everything for almost two years. For some strange reason, people would rather yell at Democrats than blame the freaking Republicans. After January, you all can yell at Dems till you’re hoarse. 😂
What cracks me up is the CNN clip – the ticker under the headline about “Arlington guard” is the vote count. Subtle shade, even if unintentional.
Hegseth, the biggest cos-player ever, will hopefully be impeached properly if the dem’s can get their sh8t collectively together now, instead of all of this in-fighting, and start to get do the things they need to do.
Exactly, Brassy and Graphinya.
This is was done down by an out-going republican congressman under a GOP controlled House. Better to launch a coordinated effort under democratic control in 2027.
And there will be more charges. That Republican rep left out a lot. I’m glad he got the ball rolling, though.
Everyone is gonna reply to you with excuses about them being caught in traffic or sick etc etc but there is no excuse. If McConnell can drag his corpse to the halls of Congress for a vote then Dems can, too.
My biggest fear is that Dems will squander all the power the people just gave them and not deliver.
Really hope I’m wrong and I do have high hopes for the incoming class.
I agree. Democrats – this is your chance for 2028. Do NOT blow this!!
WTF is absolutely right! Why didn’t every single Democrat vote to impeach this evil MOFO. They should have made sure to be there ready to shred this testosterone obsessed closeted bully.
I could never imagine people laughing and carrying on at the tomb of the unknown soldier but here we are
Or standing in the middle of the stairs to get your picture taken, smiling! Zero sense of decorum, let alone duty & sacrifice. He probably chews gum in church, too.
I don’t even have words to describe what an execrable piece of shit Hegseth is.
That soldier was p!ssed – you could hear it in his voice.
Because Sec of Defense really should be someone who has worked their way up the ranks and knows military decorum. This POS is not fit to shine the shoes of some of the generals he fired under the guise of purging “DEI” hires in favor of “merit”. Meanwhile, HE has no merit.
Honestly, it gives me hope that the soldier (rightly) did his job and spoke (yelled) truth to power.
It also makes me wonder how many people who work in Hegseth’s department despise him and the way he has disgraced his country. I’ll bet it’s a lot.
There was some speculation that the soldier who did as he is trained to do in such circumstances would be removed from this assignment or even from the service. Hopefully, the Pentagon statement ends the matter.
Oooh, can’t wait til they blow the whole thing up by removing, demoting, or firing him.
And then we can give this guy the honors he deserves for standing up to that Nazi.
Kegsbreath gave him a medal today.
There is such a palpable sense of solemnity and reverence at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Just an insane amount of disrespect but this is the man who has made a circus out of our Armed Forces so it’s not surprising. From everything I’ve read, he is detested by our military personnel.
My FIL is a retired Marine Colonel. He bought squishy bricks for himself and a few of his fellow retired officer friends, so they can throw them at the TV whenever Trump or especially Hegseth come on, instead of getting all riled up and shouting about it (it’s not entirely effective, but apparently helps a little). As you said, they absolutely loathe that overcompensating, misogynistic, bigoted weirdo frat boy.
LOL that is so funny. I’m picturing all these distinguished retired military men tossing Nerf bricks at Kegbreath’s dumb face haha…
After what this man has done to starred generals, I sincerely hope that nothing befalls this solider. #ImpeachHegseth
That worries me. I hope this soldier doesn’t have his career ruined by Hegseth and his cronies. These are bullies known for getting even with anyone who crosses them.
In my lifetime I’ve NEVA seen the Dems in D.C. squander power and not pass life changing & affirming policies that me & mines & ALL OF US 💙🇺🇸💙have been able to flourish under when they had the majority…so I’ma lean on those facts & if we’re lucky we’ll no longer let the Republicans get the majority again to have the power to pervert good Dem policies…just think of how STRONG Healthcare would be NOW if POTUS Obama had kept the Dem majority from 2010-2016 and look at the HISTORICAL amount of GOOD policies Dems were able to pass from 2016-2022 which is the ONLY reason why Trump wasn’t able to 🔥🔥🔥 EVERYTHING during his first term & while Covid was raging
The problem is that both parties have been captured by corporate interests.
@Bisynap…A Dem POTUS nor Congress in our lifetime has pushed bills & policies that decimate the social net while cutting corporation taxes…that’s disingenuous and pushes that both sides are the same BS…yes there are Dems that need to STOP making money off of stocks but in our lifetime we NEVA had tobacco companies passing out CHECKS to House Reps & Corporations coming to the Whitehouse to BUY their influence right in our faces & there are MILLIONS of other examples over the decades that has shown the dirt Republicans do that Dems have NEVA done…
I can’t stand this “both sides are bad” narrative. How, Sway?? Republicans literally bankrupt the country every. single. time. giving our money away to their corporate and billionaire buddies. The Dems come in and try to take care of every one. Stop it.
@ bisynaptic-I generally agree in that Dems have been pushers of austerity measures and neoliberalism for my entire lifetime. Sadly, that is not the exclusive purview of the GOP. New Democrats have been integrating socially progressive goals with fiscal conservatism, free-market capitalism, and corporate-friendly policies for at least 50 years. That being said, the two parties are markedly different in almost every other way aside from the corporate ties. Also, there are politicians within the Dem party that genuinely, deeply, truly care about making our lives better (thinking of you, Ayanna Pressley) and that cannot be said about the GOP.
The newly D-leading Congress can ban Congressional stock trading on Day One through a rule–no legislation needed. That is something I expect they’ll do and one example of many that the GOP would NEVER even attempt. From Reagan to GW Bush to Trump, the GOP has never cared about improving the lives of working class Americans.
I’m both nervous and excited about the direction the party is going in. We might actually see generational change with this new class of Dems who definitely understand the assignment. I just hope the Old Guard stays out of their way.
The process to become a sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is very difficult. These soldiers, in a regiment known as the Old Guard, are the elite of the elite, and incredibly disciplined.
Hegseth is just the scum of the earth. He’s not fit to polish that sentinel’s shoes.
That dude scared me sh*tless. That’s a man who takes his job seriously. Shame the SECDEF doesn’t take his as seriously.
Bad people. There are no mental gymnastics that MAGAts can do here to make excuses. These are just BAD people.
My late father was a Vietnam War Vet Marine who eventually lost his life as a result of what happened to him during that war. Veterans Day was actually his birthday. He took me to this memorial as a young child, probably 6 years old, and even I knew how to act respectful there. F this disgusting, disrespectful, smarmy, arrogant psychopath.
That degenerate sociopath and his friends probably didn’t even twig that the Marine was addressing them. Plus they don’t give a shit about fallen soldiers. They are incapable of decorum, intelligent thought and human decency like every single member of the Republican party that supports the Convicted Felon.
Colin Jost does such a great Hegseth impersonation on SNL. He did that weird stiff swagger into the cold open on Saturday and went “What’s up, fartknockers!?” and I cracked up. This literally sounds like something Hegseth would say. He’s like the worst frat bro guy you knew in college, only worse.
It was terrific! 😆
People like him wonder why no one respects them.
You get what you give, you absolute raging trash fire.
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How did you get graphics???
@Mumster
They’re just the emojis on my phone keyboard 😎
I did “trash fire” in two rows
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Massie blew it. They should have waited until the new Congress came in to impeach Hegseth’s cosplaying fake ass.
Massie wanted his “tell him it was me” moment because he won’t be in the next Congress. He’s done.
His term ends January 3rd, This was his last chance before Congress goes on vacation for two months.
This is one of my favorite stories right now. That soldier! That voice! That command! That sense of duty and respect and honor of his own to carry out his job even if it entails castigating the SECDEF himself!!!!! 👏👏
Massive jerk and utterly classless. No surprise. Let’s remember that his boss President Epstein has called fallen American soldiers “losers” for having made the ultimate sacrifice. MAGA has little respect for their fellow Americans, and even less for many who serve in the military.
I wish I could say this is unreal. My great-grandfather, grandfather, and aunt are buried in Arlington. My father and step-father are Vietnam veterans. I was a Congressional staffer. For one reason or another I have spent many Marine Corps birthdays, Veterans Days, private ceremonies and official events there and I cannot fucking fathom anyone, much less the Secretary of Defense and staff, acting like this there. They just, just what in the hell is wrong with these people?
Of course soldiers, dead or alive, mean nothing to Hegsgeth. It’s all about him and how important and smartly dressed he is. And that wonderful hair!
Someone yesterday said the guard would probably be fired. That’s how they roll.
Ha! Hegseth gave the soldier a medal this afternoon.
He knows his days are numbered.