The elected president of the United States, donald trumpannounced this Tuesday the nomination of the war veteran and network presenter Fox Pete Hegseth as new Secretary of Defense.
“Pete has spent his entire life as a warrior for troops and country. Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First.“Trump said in a statement with which he announced his nominee.
Hegseth, a decorated veteran of the wars Iraq and Afghanistanand graduated from Princeton University, will head the Pentagon and lead more than 1.3 million active soldiers.
Likewise, for eight years he has been a presenter on the conservative Fox network and has written the best-selling The war of the warriors.
More Trump appointments
Hegseth’s is one of the nominations that the Republican has communicated throughout this Tuesday, a day in which he also announced that the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, and businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy They will lead the brand new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE, in English).
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration dismantle the government bureaucracyreduce excess regulations, cut unnecessary spending and restructure federal agencies,” said the former president.
Other notable appointments announced today were that of Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as new ambassador to Israel.
This Tuesday, the future president also announced that the businessman and philanthropist Steve Witkoff, one of his closest friends, will be his future special envoy for the Middle Eastand announced the appointment of John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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