Pete Hegseth Mocked for Disastrous Typo During Cabinet Meeting With Donald Trump: 'They Can't Even Spell Right'

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00:00Pete Hegseth mocked for disastrous typo during cabinet meeting with Donald Trump.

00:05They can't even spell right.

00:07During the televised gathering on December 2nd,

00:10Hegseth's card identified him as the ESSA Secretary of War,

00:14a mistake critics had a field day calling out and criticizing

00:17given the weight of national security topics being discussed.

00:20The newly appointed Pentagon chief had used the meeting

00:23to defend a series of deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean,

00:26insisting his mission was to put narco-terrorists

00:29at the bottom of the ocean.

00:30However, viewers were too distracted by the double S showcase beside his name.

00:35California Governor Gavin Newsom mocked the typo, asking,

00:38What does the SS stand for? Interesting.

00:41Appointed reference to Nazi Germany's SS.

00:44Journalist Nick Monroe and others also piled on,

00:47joking that someone would so be fired for the syssecretary blunder.

00:51One viewer questioned how such an error slipped through at a televised cabinet meeting,

00:55asking how the most powerful group of people could miss the double S on Hegseth's name card.

01:02Another even wondered if the typo was intentional,

01:05asking,

01:05An SS reference or a warning?

01:08Pointing out the symbolism behind the typo,

01:10someone else commented,

01:11SS is kind of fitting, to be honest.

01:14They too were hyper-concerned with clean-shaven soldiers that were micromanaged,

01:19and they put a lot of stock in the aesthetics.

01:21Secretary Hegseth commits war crimes,

01:24and his staff commits font fascism,

01:26an additional critic quipped.

01:28Others used the typo to revive accusations about Hegseth's alleged drinking habits.

01:33Keith Olbermann joked,

01:34The extra S is for scotch,

01:36while another ex-user claimed he

01:38stutters when he's drunk.

01:40Hegseth has denied past allegations of drinking during veterans' events,

01:44though former Fox News colleagues described his alleged heavy alcohol use

01:48in 2024 interviews with NBC News.