Pete Hesgeth -- who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach ...

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Kevin M. Kruse
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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.

What an unbelievable asshole.

June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.

What an unbelievable asshole.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-06-07T16:22:03.944Z

[Diamond_Dog]

1. He is so odious and reprehensible

it burns.

[Attilatheblond]

6. And FRAGILE. Do not forget how fragile these white supremacists are

Deep inside, they know there is something essential missing from them, deep inside.

[D. Spaulding]

2. Why does the clown think that doing push ups somewhere

gives his actions any particular meaning or validation? And I say that as a veteran with close to 30 years of military service. He was an absolute horrible choice for that position

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. It's disgusting... fuck Pete Hogsbreath!!

[Docreed2003]

4. Sorry but doing PT at Omaha beach is disgusting

As is removing Medgar Evers name from the ship

[Delmette2.0]

26. Civilian here. What is PT?

[sop]

27. Physical Training

[Delmette2.0]

29. Thank you.

[Docreed2003]

28. "Physical Training"

It's just a term used for things like running and working out

[Delmette2.0]

30. Thank you.

[generalbetrayus]

5. Hegseth is obviously too ignorant to know that Medgar Evers landed on Omaha Beach.

If brains were dynamite, he couldn't blow his own nose.

[DonCoquixote]

7. it's not ignorance

it is the goal to make every person not white feel worthless, and make every abusive white dude feel more worthy than a hero.

[generalbetrayus]

8. That is a good point you made.

But I'm still pretty sure he is dumb as a rock, and, as a geologist, I know something about rocks.

[Beck23]

23. Don't insult rocks.

[BattleRow]

12. They've had a lot of practice making women ,of any color, feel worthless for years.

So theyve got a good head ,or should I say "heartless",start?

[dchill]

24. That seems pretty ignorant to me.

[BattleRow]

9. @5 Just spit out my coffee!

[ShazzieB]

22. Absolutely.

He not only doesn't know that Medgar Evers landed on Omaha Beach, he doesn't care. He couldn't care less what Evers, Harvey Milk, or any of the others who had ships named after them that he wants to rename did or who they are.

In the Hegseth-Trump universe, there is only one criterion for greatness: being a straight white male. Those people are not straight, white males, which to Schlump and Hegseth means they can't possibly have done anything to deserve having a ship named after them.

It's a warped, sick, twisted way of looking at these outstanding people and their remarkable lives, but the drunk and his overgrown toddler boss have, tragically, been given the power to do this. There are no words for how wrong this is.

[Silent Type]

10. What's the proposed new name, USS Byron de la Beckwith?

[lastlib]

11. Shitty (of course) how he made it about HIM---

NOT so much those who shed their blood there. I think he really couldn't give a rat's wazzoo about them, just using them as a prop for his crap--the way his deplorable boss does.

I have a SEEETHING hatred for this crowd.

[Midnight Writer]

13. I named the rubber duckie in my bathtub after Whiskey Pete. Seemed fitting.

[Puppyjive]

14. Renamed my toilet

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The Hegseth.

[COL Mustard]

15. Well...we'll never forget

The white veterans. Them other men, well, they shoulda stayed home and kept in their place.



(Obvious sarcasm, but added if needed.)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Hegseth is a racist asshole

Hegseth is a racist asshole

Link to tweet

[orangecrush]

17. POS

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Thanks, Putin!

Kegsbreath is a traitor, like Trump.

[Iamscrewed]

19. Ignorance

Beyond believable fucking stupidity.

[Ping Tung]

20. Is he determined to name it the "Bone Spur" in honor of his master's distinguished military service?

The only people more disgusting than them are the nincompoops who voted for him.

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." Mark Twain

[Beck23]

21. Hegseth is a racist asshole

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed--Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops'

It was no accident that Hegseth did this at the start of Pride Month

Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed—Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops' www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...

— UncoverTheNews (@uncoverthenews.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T11:23:18.459Z

https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-renaming-harvey-milk-navy-ship-sparks-fury-veterans-group-2080673

A veterans group has accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of a "deliberate insult to LGBTQ" troops by renaming a ship carrying the name of the prominent gay rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk.

The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a replenishment oiler, was issued in a memorandum from the office of the Secretary of the Navy, according to CBS News.

"At the start of Pride Month, Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy to strip Harvey Milk's name from a ship," VoteVotes, a progressive veterans activist group, posted to X, formerly Twitter.

"A man who served with honor—erased to send a message. This is a deliberate insult to LGBTQ Troops and Americans that weakens our force and shreds the values we fight for."....

The renaming of the ship marks the latest move by Hegseth and the wider Trump administration to purge departments of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

The documents also show that other Navy vessels named after prominent American figures are on a "recommended list" to be renamed. These include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.