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War crimes?\u00a0Don’t even bother asking Pete Hegseth about that \u2014\u00a0unless you want to get roasted by an alpha male.<\/p>\n
Colin Jost reprised his role as the macho Secretary of War this week on “Saturday Night Live,”\u00a0swaggering out to meet reporters at a press conference before chugging an energy drink and ordering everyone to shut up. He announced that “we’re now at war with Venezuela,”\u00a0and if you’re looking for an official declaration of war?\u00a0Hegseth has a middle finger for you \u2014\u00a0or at least a Dane Cook super finger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reporters try to get more information on the military’s deadly strike on alleged drug traffickers on a Venezuelan fishing boat, but Hegseth shouted them down… while letting it slip that he really just needs a stiff drink. When reporters pressed him on President Donald Trump’s waning public support of him, Hegseth insisted Trump is a “high-energy alpha”\u00a0who backs him all the way… while Trump dozed off in the background.<\/p>\n
Trump did wake up long enough to take over the press conference \u2014 after enjoying a spicy dream about New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani \u2014\u00a0to defend Hegseth’s military actions by chalking them up to the “fog of war”:\u00a0“It’s like when you go into the sauna at Equinox and suddenly, you’re doing stuff you’ve never done before.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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