Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: April 23, 2025 / 8:02 PM EDT


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News. The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars, according to two of the sources, at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures.

"Changes and upgrades to the Pentagon Briefing Room are nothing new and routinely happen during changes in an administration," a Defense Department spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. The renovation that was initially planned was estimated to cost more than $40,000, but the ideas were scaled back, sources said. After CBS News published its report, the defense secretary responded in a post on X, "Totally fake story. No 'orders' and no 'makeup.'"

Hegseth, before becoming defense secretary, was a morning show co-host on Fox News' "Fox & Friends Weekend." Since his nomination, he has vowed to emphasize improvements in the armed forces' warfighting abilities and military readiness. An in-house construction crew renovated the adjacent green room earlier this year. The room previously had minimal furnishings — a table with chairs, a TV, photos of former defense secretaries and a mirror on the back of the door, one source said. The table was removed and a new chair and large mirror with makeup lighting was installed, another source said.

Hegseth is doing his own makeup ahead of TV appearances, not paying for a makeup artist, a defense official told CBS News. The suggestion for improving the space came from Tami Radabaugh, the deputy assistant to the secretary for strategic engagement and a former producer for Fox News and for CBS News, according to multiple sources. The chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, and the defense secretary's wife, Jennifer Hegseth, also a former Fox producer, expressed their approval for the upgrade before it was undertaken, one of the sources said.

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Of course he is calling this "fake news" but that is what "fake people" do.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. They are con artists.

Of course, they want anything that will help them lie to the American pubic.

[BoRaGard]

2. G.O.P. masking the truth

Bearing False Witness (R)

[Roy Rolling]

3. The Worst Actors

It’s always the worst actors who wear the most makeup.

[IcyPeas]

4. Vance-eyeliner. Trump-orange bronzer. Matt Gaetz-botox, highlighter. Pete Hegseth-makeup studio.

🤡

[mdbl]

5. Do they really think it helps cover up their fascist dick-headedness?

No amount of makeup in the world will make them look more like clowns than they do already.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Maddow Blog-Pete Hegseth's reported new makeup studio at the Pentagon gives away the game

Last edited Thu Apr 24, 2025, 10:48 AM - Edit history (1)

A new report reinforces concerns that Hegseth's job is to effectively play the role of defense secretary on television.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lnkrmavhfk27

On the one hand, Pete Hegseth talks a lot about "lethality" and a "warrior ethos."

On the other hand, he and his DOD invest a ridiculous amount of energy into scrubbing websites, banning books, and creating a new makeup studio for his TV appearances.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pete-hegseths-reported-new-makeup-studio-pentagon-gives-away-game-rcna202751

For all of Hegseth’s reported interest in “lethality” and championing a hypermasculine “warrior ethos,” in recent months, he and the Pentagon have invested a ridiculous amount of time in pursuing petty culture war goals that don’t advance the nation’s national security goals in any way.

It was against this backdrop that CBS News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told CBS News. The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars, according to two of the sources, at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures.

While Hegseth described the report as a “totally fake story,” a Defense Department spokesperson made no effort to deny the accuracy of the report, instead describing the modification as a “routine” upgrade. A Pentagon spokesperson also said the new space will be available to others, not just the secretary. (The CBS report has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News.)

The story stood out for me, not just because of the degree to which it defies Hegseth’s rhetoric about a “warrior ethos,” but also because of what we’re learning about his role on Donald Trump’s team. Indeed, the president chose a television personality to lead the Pentagon, so it stands to reason that he’d want a new makeup studio.

By all appearances, his job isn’t to serve an administrative role, overseeing one of the planet’s largest and most complex bureaucracies; his job is to effectively play the role of defense secretary on TV, saying words like “tough” and “strength” on Fox News as Trump nods along while watching.

Hegseth is less of a cabinet secretary and more of a camera-ready performer. He’s able to keep his job — at least for now — not through competent governance, but rather by responding to the CBS News report by publishing a tweet that read in part, “We should have installed tampon machines in every men’s bathroom at DoD instead — the leftist ‘news’ media would have loved that.”

.....As the week began, the political world was warned that damaging new allegations about Hegseth were on the way. Those warnings were correct.

[SpankMe]

7. If a Dem administration did this...

The RPMs on the RW rage machine would be approaching the speed of light. Make-up? On men? How queer!

[Crowman2009]

8. So manly!

Wonder if Drunky McPetey will put on white pale makeup like characters towards the end of a rather macabe movie that are about to meet their fate but are oblivious due to being lost in their excessive hedonistic lifestyle.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Just get tattoo eyeliner like JD and wash your hair once in awhile??

[twodogsbarking]

10. Makes sense. They make up everything.