{"id":22261,"date":"2026-03-26T00:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/whoopi-lectures-pete-hegseth-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-soldier\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:02:59","slug":"whoopi-lectures-pete-hegseth-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/whoopi-lectures-pete-hegseth-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Lectures Pete Hegseth On What It Means To Be A Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Whoopi Goldberg took a moment during Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe View\u201d to lecture War Secretary Pete Hegseth about what it means to be a soldier, arguing that he \u201cshould know\u201d what he was subjecting service members to when they deployed to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg and her cohosts insisted, as they have previously, that President Donald Trump\u2019s administration launched Operation Epic Fury and unleashed American military force on the Iranian regime without first planning for contingencies. That, she complained, meant that he was \u201csending people in to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whoopi claims the administration is just \u201csending people in to die\u201d \u201cwithout a plan\u201d and nothing else. Despite never serving herself, she lectures Secretary Hegseth (who did serve) about what it means \u201cto be a solider in our Army\u201d and claims he doesn\u2019t care about the lives of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nUun9OJxd3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/nUun9OJxd3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/2036836077256798303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After first asserting that the United States was manipulating the numbers to hide the number of American troops who were already deployed to the Middle East and the number of those who had been hurt or killed, Goldberg asserted that there was still no plan in place to bring Operation Epic Fury to an end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, at this point, I want them to stop what they\u2019re doing. They are sending people in to die. They are sending people in to die and I\u2019m surprised because Hegseth served,\u201d Goldberg said, suggesting that because American troops were in harm\u2019s way, Hegseth could not possibly have planned the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, he did,\u201d Sunny Hostin agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe served. He should know what \u2014\u201d Goldberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Cohost Abby Huntsman added, \u201cHe should know better than anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, better than any body, but when you listen to [Hegseth] \u2014 Stop looking so angry! He should know more than anybody what it takes to be a soldier in our Army,\u201d Goldberg explained, adding, \u201cWhat it means when you send people in. When you send them in with a plan, it\u2019s horrific. You send them in without a plan, you willy-nilly and you\u2019re not explaining what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFathers, mothers, daughter, sisters, brothers, these are all our American citizens who are being asked to do this. And because, because of the way the military is, they will do what they\u2019re asked to do,\u201d she continued. \u201cDamnit, I rather this were in the hands of people who actually cared about them enough to say, \u2018I going to do everything I can for you to be not in a place where you could be killed.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-whoopi-lectures-pete-hegseth-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-soldier\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopi Goldberg took a moment during Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe View\u201d to lecture War Secretary Pete Hegseth about what it means to be a soldier, arguing that he \u201cshould know\u201d what he was subjecting service members to when they deployed to the Middle East. Goldberg and her cohosts insisted, as they have previously, that President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}