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Pete Hegseth Mocks Reporter Over Female B-2 Pilot Credit https://share.google/JB562FnMudr8lzKXJ
During a Sunday morning press conference following the attack, Hegseth heaped praise on President Donald Trump and the military campaign that saw six bunker buster bombs dropped on key nuclear sites in the country. He also casually called the B-2 pilots who dropped the 15-ton bombs on targets in Iran our boys on those bombers, which instantly got the Gray Lady in high dudgeon.
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Why didnt you acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in this mission, she asked. The early messages that you sent out only congratulated the boys.
So when I say something like our boys and bombers see, this is the kind of thing the press does, right? Hegseth ridiculed. Of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. Thats fantastic. Shes fantastic, shes a hero. I want more female bomber pilots. I hope the men and women of our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things.
But when you spin it as, because I say our boys and bombers as a common phrase, Ill keep saying things like that, whether theyre men or women, very proud of that female pilot, just like Im very proud of those male pilots and I dont care if its a male or a female in that cockpit and the American people dont care but its the obsession with race and gender in this department thats changed priorities and we dont do that anymore, he continued. We dont play your little games.

bif
(25,753 posts)wcmagumba
(4,165 posts)
Dave Bowman
(5,353 posts)chouchou
(2,050 posts)."....and all the Men and Women.." Oh Brother.
Demovictory9
(36,446 posts)Every press conference, time is devoted to praising trump
intheflow
(29,593 posts)"men and women" is definitely what he should have said. But even "boys and girls" would have been an improvement.
chouchou
(2,050 posts)...and not able to speak to any of the decent citizen population.
Deuxcents
(22,825 posts)JT45242
(3,432 posts)They are soldiers.
They are pilots.
They are men and women.
They are not boys.
Save that term for when you wear your pillow cases with the eye holes you irredeemable drunk racist POS.
purple_haze
(217 posts)from a bygone era has failed.
Demovictory9
(36,446 posts)milestogo
(21,026 posts)A man his age who is so clueless about women, trans people, and minorities shouldn't even have a job. He would lose one pretty quickly in the real world.