Hegseth barks anti-trans slur at Iowa fair to distract from his incompetence

The defense secretary’s bigoted machismo can’t mask his inability to bring the deadly Iran war and its economic fallout to an end.

Hegseth uses transphobic slur at Iowa State Fair  edition.cnn.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-LGBTQ slur completely unprompted at an Iowa State Fair on Monday, referring to transgender people as “trannies.” “At the Department of War, we do training, not trannies,” he said at a Salute to the Troops military fundraiser at the fair, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported. T

The defence secretary’s remark came during a veterans fundraiser appearance alongside congressman Zach Nunn, as he pushed anti-DEI messaging.