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US President Donald Trump has backed Pete Hegseth following midterm elections and scrutiny over military actions involving Iran. Trump commended Hegseth, remarking, 'He's done a fantastic job', while criticising 'woke' four-star generals. Trump asserted that military operations have been successful, citing an operation in Venezuela and arguing that the conflict involving Iran has seen minimal casualties in recent months while the United States controls the straits. Emphasising operational results, Trump noted that the US has succeeded tremendously with its naval blockade.

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00:00After the U.S. midterm poll drubbing that Trump blames Iran war but logs Pete Hegzett,
00:07that is the Secretary of the War Department.
00:10Trump says Hegzett did a fantastic job.
00:13Amid criticism of Hegzett's role in the Iran war, U.S. President Trump backs War Secretary Hegzett.
00:19And earlier, remember, Trump had said no changes in the admin team at all.
00:23Let's listen in to what Trump has now come out to say on The Same.
00:30He's done a fantastic job.
00:31Now, he's got some interesting things.
00:35You know, we had more generals than we did in World War II.
00:40We had so many generals.
00:41Everybody was a four-star general.
00:43I never saw anything like it.
00:44And many of those people were woke.
00:47I don't like a woke general.
00:48And so he probably has opposition.
00:51I think he's done a fantastic job.
00:52So we had a war with Venezuela.
00:55It was over in 48 minutes.
00:57We had total success.
00:58No deaths.
01:00We have, I guess, you have, I don't know if it's a war, because there hasn't been anybody killed in
01:05many months.
01:07But we have a war with a place called the Islamic Republic of Iran.
01:15Lovely place.
01:17And we control the Straits.
01:19We're doing more oil right now going through the Straits than we did before the war started.
01:23And nobody's been killed in about seven months, six months.
01:30And, you know, if you look at Russia, Ukraine, see, that's a war.
01:34That's a war.
01:3625,000 people being killed a month.
01:38We're going to get that settled pretty soon, by the way.
01:41But 25,000 people a month being killed.
01:43They fight day and night, day and night, all day.
01:47And you have World War I, World War II.
01:49Those are wars.
01:51Somebody said a war with Iran.
01:53And no, we have succeeded with the blockade tremendously.
01:59And we have destroyed.

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