By Molly Goddard
2:30am PDT, Apr 25, 2025
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Pete Hegseth's alleged renovations at the Pentagon have everyone talking.
After a report surfaced that the Defense Secretary allegedly took a green room at the government building and turned it into a makeup studio, social media users slammed the official for using the space for vanity amid spending cuts.
Keep reading to find out how Hegseth responded to the outrage…
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According to a Wednesday, April 23, report by
CBS News, Pete Hegseth took the space next to the press briefing area and renovated it into a makeup studio, all while slashing department programs and staff.
"Changes and upgrades to the
Pentagon Briefing Room are nothing new and routinely happen during changes in an administration," a Defense Department representative confirmed in a statement to the outlet. "For this upgrade we were deliberately conservative and opted for several less expensive, on-hand materiel solutions."
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Social media users went wild over Pete Hegseth having a room to get camera-ready in before speaking to the press.
"Nothing screams warrior culture more than a makeup studio. Hegseth was derelict in his duties by repeatedly using his personal phone to disclose ongoing combat operations and is now wasting taxpayer dollars. How does a makeup studio at the
Pentagon help troops? He needs to resign," one X user wrote.
"Hegseth puts on makeup like he puts on patriotism. Loud, flaky and three shades too fake," a second person added.
"Send Pete 'warfighter' Hegseth your makeup tricks, ladies," a third chimed in.
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Pete Hegseth fired back at the misunderstanding of the Pentagon renovation and took the opportunity to slam
the left.
"No 'orders and no 'makeup'— but whatever," the former Army National Guard officer wrote in a Truth Social update on Wednesday, April 23. "We should have installed tampon machines in every men's bathroom at DoD instead. The leftist 'news' media would have loved that."
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Pete Hegseth has been no stranger to scandal since starting his job at the Department of Defense.
According to a Sunday, April 20, report from
The New York Times, the Princeton University alum allegedly shared sensitive military
information in a group chat with his wife, brother and personal attorney.
A representative for the Pentagon refuted the allegation, claiming the press was "enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article."
