MORGAN MURPHY: Pete Hegseth Fat Shames Generals At A Time When Standards Matter

“It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon leading commands around the country and the world,” said our fit Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday.

“It’s a bad look.”

Yes it is.

And nearly every member of today’s military has seen that bad look, firsthand.

When I joined the U.S. Navy in 1999, the Pentagon only had one elevator, and it was for the Secretary of Defense.

Today, when you visit the five-sided puzzle palace, there are elevators in every corridor. And worst of all, parked outside many are Little Rascal mobility scooters—it looks like a scene from Disney’s “Wall-E”movie where humans get so fat they can hardly function.

Ask any sailor, soldier, and airman about doing a physical fitness test with a senior officer. You’ll likely hear about chicken-neck pushups, slow runs, failed weigh-ins, and test administrators who look the other way.

After all, who is going to tell a four-star general or admiral that he looks sloppy in his uniform or that his pushups weren’t pushups at all?

Our Secretary of War, that’s who.

In Trump’s War Department, leadership starts at the top.

Biden’s tubby Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin wasn’t about to tell General Mark Milley that he was overweight.  The troops knew General Milley didn’t meet the standard. The press knew Milley was fat. The public knew it, too. There’s a reason the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs preferred his roomy, baggy camouflage uniform, even in the halls of the Pentagon.