Veteran Gives Pete Hegseth An Absolute ‘Problem’ Over His Pride Month ‘Troll’ Job | EUROtoday

Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander (D) on Wednesday dragged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “pretty immature” order for the U.S. Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a vessel named after a late LGBTQ+ rights icon.

Kander — a U.S. Army veteran — spoke to MSNBC about Hegseth’s ’80s “action movie”-like discuss of “trying to restore a warrior culture” within the navy, arguing that his transfer to rename the ship sends the incorrect message to homosexual service members who will consider they’ll’t be a part of such an “ethos.”

“That’s a real problem in a military that rightfully got rid of the law that forced Harvey Milk out of the military,” stated Kander of Milk, who served within the Navy within the Korean War earlier than being forcibly discharged because of his sexual orientation.

In 1978, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, changing into the primary brazenly homosexual individual to be elected to public workplace in California. He was assassinated later that 12 months.

The timing of the transfer to rename the ship — which is about to be introduced subsequent week within the coronary heart of Pride Month — was reportedly intentional and displays wider efforts to reimagine historical past below President Donald Trump.

Hegseth’s plan to strip the vessel of Milk’s identify has sparked outrage amongst leaders in San Francisco and led to criticism from actor Sean Penn, who performed Milk within the 2008 Oscar-winning film named after the politician.

Kander confused that it’s not a “bad thing” to remind service members about “what they’re serving for.”

“And you want to talk about a ‘warrior ethos,’ I mean, how about somebody who joins the military during a war as an officer, gets kicked out over their own objections and then goes on to fight for civil rights and gives their life for the cause,” he stated of Milk.

“That’s probably the kind of thing that we want to remind our service members that America is about and what we’re fighting for in the first place.”

Moments earlier, Kander stated the transfer by Hegseth — who as soon as walked again controversial feedback attacking homosexual service members — displays what occurs while you put a Fox News host in control of the Pentagon, as “everything looks like a tweet.”

“This is like a tweet to troll gay people during Pride Month,” Kander stated.