Hegseth Denies Makeup Report In Anti-Trans Rant

Salon reports:

The former Fox News host turned head of the Department of Defense raged over a CBS News report that he installed a makeup studio just outside of the Pentagon’s press briefing room. The outlet shared that Hegseth had spent “several thousand dollars” to add a new chair and mirror with makeup lighting in the green room.

“Totally fake story,” Hegseth wrote on X. “No ‘orders’ and no ‘makeup’ — but whatever.” Hegseth went on to suggest that the “leftist ‘news’ media” would rather see him install “tampon machines in every men’s bathroom at DoD.”

A Pentagon spokesperson was more measured in its response, saying there was nothing novel about changes to Pentagon decor in a statement to CBS News.

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