{"id":347229,"date":"2026-03-15T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:39:07","slug":"pete-hegseth-gives-terrible-advice-for-oil-tankers-trapped-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347229\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Gives Terrible Advice for Oil Tankers Trapped By Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump summons the Defense secretary to explain why the U.S. has &#8220;won&#8221; the war against Iran and why the media should stop worrying about it<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2018s Pete Hegseth has a solution for oil tankers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz by the threat of Iranian mines: do what he used to do at DUI checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Defense secretary (Colin Jost) was summoned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> (James Austin Johnson) at a gas station after the president tried to explain away his broken campaign promises of no new wars and low gas prices. And Hegseth, emerging from the back seat of a family\u2019s car along with dozens of empty beer cans, began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/pete-hegseth-berates-press-iran-death-toll-1235530124\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by complaining about<\/a> the press questioning him and the administration about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/iran-war-public-health-environmental-crisis-1235530485\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the war<\/a>, which reportedly cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/iran-war-cost-11-billion-first-week-pentagon-1235528962\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about $11.3 billion<\/a> in just the first week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe news is: we won! Hashtag \u2018winning!\u2019 So you can stop asking me all about it. Don\u2019t even <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/hegseth-worry-strait-hormuz-us-time-counter-irans\/story?id=131036790\" target=\"_blank\">worry about it<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cThe real problem is all you gaybies\u2014gay babies, copyright\u2014all you gaybies in the media are completely unpatriotic, okay? They\u2019re using what I do and say to make me look like a fool!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe continued: \u201cAnd all you dweebs, stop saying the Strait of Hormuz is closed: it\u2019s wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter Iran shut it down, causing oil and gas prices to spike, Trump told oil tankers to just \u201cshow some guts\u201d\u2014despite the mines. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a>\u2018s Hegseth was on the same page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIf you\u2019re an oil tanker, and you\u2019re driving it, and you see one of those mines, do what I do at a DUI checkpoint: close your eyes and gun it!\u201d instructed Hegseth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump summons the Defense secretary to explain why the U.S. has &#8220;won&#8221; the war against Iran and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,13478,5195,15824,282],"class_list":["post-347229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-late-night-tv","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}