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President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth staged a blunt, unapologetic summit at Quantico that pulled no punches about the rot that decades of PC culture have injected into our armed forces. They declared an end to the “woke” experiment and made clear that physical readiness and discipline will again be nonnegotiable for anyone wearing the uniform. The spectacle sent the liberal commentariat into meltdown, but real Americans understand that a fighting force needs warriors, not virtue-signaling photo ops.
Hegseth didn’t just trash talking points; he ordered concrete changes—twice-yearly physical tests, enforced height and weight standards, and a return to tougher combat requirements that prioritize capability over quotas or identity politics. He also signaled tighter grooming and uniform standards and directed immediate reviews of how standards were weakened in recent years. This is commonsense reform: when a life is on the line, you don’t comfort the unfit, you fix the problem.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects on shows like The View erupted in performative outrage, calling the push for fitness “fat shaming” and treating accountability like an existential crisis. Joy Behar and her co-hosts predictably framed the debate as a culture-war attack rather than confronting the simple truth that obese and out-of-shape service members endanger their units. Their tears and hot takes are a perfect snapshot of the coastal elite’s priorities: feelings over fitness, optics over outcomes.
Patriots should cheer a return to standards because the problem is real and costly. Government watchdogs and reporting have documented how services relaxed body-fat rules and even admitted recruits far outside limits slipped through to meet quotas, creating readiness gaps that our enemies can exploit. We owe our troops training that makes them lethal and our commanders the authority to insist on it; anything less is a dereliction of duty.
Let’s be honest: cable hosts can clutch pearls while families, veterans, and commanders pay the price for slack standards. The debate isn’t about cruelty, it’s about competence. If The View wants to argue that failing to run, climb, carry, or fight is someone else’s problem, they can keep shouting into their echo chamber while real leaders fix what’s broken.
Critics will howl about politicization, and some will warn that the Pentagon shouldn’t be a stage for partisan rhetoric. Fine—let them howl. The higher priority is a leaner, tougher force that can defend this country, not appease a pop-culture catechism. President Trump and Secretary Hegseth made the hard choice: restore merit, demand readiness, and stop letting softness and ideology hollow out our defenses.
