Hegseth vows not to erase history—unless he doesn’t like it
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has worked overtime to restore the history of the United States that corresponds to his -and Maga’s -.
On Thursday, the old head of Fox News speaking exploded noisily the left “Lemmings” for having demolished the monuments commemorating the history linked to the Confederation and the owners of slaves.
“We recognize our story. We do not erase it,” he said on “The Will Cain Show by Fox News”. “We do not follow the awakened lemmings of the cliff who want to demolish the statues.”
And while Hegseth said that he and the rest of the Trump administration are “proud of our history” and that they are “made” with “tearing things up”, it seems that applies only to history It’s white, masculine and right.
HegSeth’s most recent catering thrust includes two monuments in particular: the reconciliation monument and a statue Celebrate General Confederate Albert Pike.
Moses’ reconciliation monument, which was withdrawn from the Arlington cemetery In 2023, was erected in 1914, almost 50 years after the end of the civil war, to commemorate the reconciliation between the North and the South. However, criticisms found the sculptures of the bronze statue representing slavery less than comforting.
As for the Pike statue, it was removed from a Washington park in 2020 after being overthrown by demonstrators, but the Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would be reinstalled.
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Hegseth also restored the names of the military bases which once glorified Confederate leaders, some of whom were owners of slaves. Some of the bases include strong Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Pickett in Virginia, Fort Benning in Georgia and Fort Hood in Texas.
But even if he worked to restore the names of the military bases and controversial statues which, according to criticism, shed light on slavery, HegSeth tries to erase history in other ways.
As Daily Kos previously reported, Hegseth was entitled to work after its controversial confirmation of the Senate to ensure that the American army rubbed his social media and websites of all traces of diversity, equity and inclusion.
In turn, years of historical content featuring women and people of color Disappeared from official files In the name of anti-dei efforts.
But it was not only a recent online content that obtained the ax. In early March, administration deleted an image Historical bomber B -29 Enola Gay – just because he understood the word “gay” in the name.
The historic illustrated plane on the Pentagon website abandoned the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during the Second World War.
In other words, while Hegseth complains about the history of the left “erasure”, the Trump administration is busy doing exactly that.
