The Anthony Cumia Show - October 08, 2025


Pete Hegseth Crushes Woke Military, Trump’s Secretary of War Revives Strength, Discipline, and Fitness in America’s Armed Forces ｜ 10-05-25

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Anthony Cumia
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Length

11 minutes

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138.38

Word count

1,630

Sentence count

80

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

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Toxicity

7

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Hate speech

13

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Trump's new Secretary of War pick, why the U.S. military needs diversity in order to be the best at what they do, and why Trump is the only one who can fix it. Plus, a new Fanduel Super Sub that keeps you in the game even if your player leaves the match.

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00:01:05.300 This is the 77
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00:01:11.040 Boy, I am
00:01:11.900 really liking Pete Hedgeseth.
00:01:14.740 And you could tell
00:01:15.680 by how much
00:01:17.220 the Democrats hate him
00:01:19.800 and are trying to downplay
00:01:21.840 downplay uh him being the secretary of war good god y'all and i think it's great they don't like
00:01:32.720 him he's uh he's not uh what do they what do they call it like uh cordial nice he's a nice guy but
00:01:43.680 as far as things go like the military and that's his job let's make the united states military
00:01:50.900 the supreme fighting force because look we haven't been i think there's such a drop off
00:01:59.840 to number two in the world that we've always been number one there isn't really a country even china
00:02:06.160 i'm not talking nukes or anything but even china looks and goes ah they're pretty formidable
00:02:12.540 you know united states military pretty formidable but we look at what's happened
00:02:20.260 over the past few years, and especially under the four years
00:02:24.840 of the Biden administration, we have seen an influx of just empty
00:02:31.600 the old Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus tent
00:02:36.160 into the recruiting office.
00:02:38.580 That's what they've done.
00:02:40.060 Ladies and gentlemen, step right up. 1.00
00:02:43.920 See the bearded woman soldier. 1.00
00:02:46.480 That's what's happening, or was happening. 0.62
00:02:50.140 And like everything else I've talked about, the border, Biden's mess,
00:02:55.460 Trump has to fix it.
00:02:56.660 Trump's the bad guy for fixing it.
00:02:58.820 And this is another thing, the United States military, they have screwed with it. 0.99
00:03:04.520 They've tried the social experiment of transgender and gay people 0.51
00:03:10.560 and women in combat roles and all this stuff, this feel-good experiment. 0.53
00:03:19.200 you know, like women in law enforcement. 0.71
00:03:21.180 That's great. 1.00
00:03:22.760 Sit in the precinct, put your ass in a seat, type up some stuff 1.00
00:03:27.540 so a guy can be out on the street doing the job to the best of their ability. 1.00
00:03:33.800 And we've seen a military where, you know, who wouldn't be disgusted
00:03:39.700 seeing what was put in leadership positions, leadership positions
00:03:46.800 in the military, freak show, incompetence, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:03:56.360 I've seen videos of sailors on submarines or aircraft carriers,
00:04:01.980 and it's a guy, supposedly, with rouge and lipstick and eyeliner,
00:04:08.840 sashaying around a ship
00:04:13.460 talking about how awesome they are
00:04:16.900 there's no place for that
00:04:18.980 the military isn't an experiment
00:04:21.720 it's been battle tested over time
00:04:25.060 and I think the people in charge
00:04:28.020 the real people in charge
00:04:29.520 not the mental institution we had
00:04:33.120 they understand what makes a strong military
00:04:36.180 And this diversity for the sake of diversity nonsense ain't it.
00:04:44.940 If something ends up being diverse because you looked for the best people involved,
00:04:50.280 the best people you could possibly get for that job,
00:04:53.820 and then when you find the best people, get them all in one place and look around and go,
00:04:57.880 wow, that is a diverse group of people.
00:05:01.560 I'm glad we picked the best people that we could. 1.00
00:05:06.180 That's one thing, and that's rare. 0.99
00:05:09.320 But if you're just saying we need a room full of diverse-looking people, regardless of how well or not well they perform their duties, that's diversity just for diversity's sake, and it doesn't work. 0.81
00:05:26.920 And throwing in things that are bad for morale, that prevent the military from being battle-ready, that's a crime. 0.90
00:05:35.840 That is a crime.
00:05:38.680 So Hedge Seth has been speaking of late, and I love it.
00:05:42.480 Secretary of War.
00:05:45.560 Here he is.
00:05:46.540 This clip is him talking.
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00:07:19.620 so here's pete talking about how they are done with the woke military and i couldn't be happier
00:07:30.120 no more identity months dei offices dudes in dresses i love that one no more climate change
00:07:39.480 worship no more division distraction or gender delusions no more debris as i've said before
00:07:46.680 and we'll say again, we are done with that. 0.89
00:07:51.100 Yep, you dropped a little S-bomb there.
00:07:54.200 Done with it. 1.00
00:07:55.460 And that's great.
00:07:56.760 It's such plain English.
00:07:59.600 I don't understand how any American of right mind
00:08:04.240 doesn't get that and go, yeah, I like that.
00:08:08.800 I understood every word he said.
00:08:11.220 This wasn't some political jargon.
00:08:13.380 He wasn't trying to pad it so as not to offend anybody.
00:08:18.480 This is what was happening.
00:08:20.480 This is what's happening now under my leadership, and we're done with all that.
00:08:27.040 Here's another clip talking about physical fitness.
00:08:30.180 We've seen the military just go down the tubes, and we see this again on a lot of police departments. 0.98
00:08:37.140 You got these obese people, sometimes, again, more times than not, women, and they can't do their job. 1.00
00:08:47.000 They're too fat to do the job. 1.00
00:08:48.740 Sorry.
00:08:49.880 And physical fitness should always be part of the military.
00:08:53.200 You look at some of the other armies, big armies around the world, you don't see this.
00:08:59.440 You just don't see this amount of unfit soldiers.
00:09:04.580 So he had something to say about that, too.
00:09:07.140 listen with physical fitness and appearance if the secretary of war can do regular hard pt
00:09:14.660 so can every member of our joint force frankly it's tiring to look out at combat formations
00:09:22.240 or really any formation and see fat troops fat likewise it's completely unacceptable to see
00:09:28.620 fat generals and admirals in the halls of the pentagon and leading commands around the country
00:09:33.200 in the world it's a bad look it is bad and it's not who we are so whether you're an airborne ranger
00:09:39.540 or a chairborne ranger a brand new private or a four-star general you need to meet the height
00:09:45.220 and weight standards and pass your pt test and as the chairman said yes there is no pt test
00:09:50.640 but today at my direction every member of the joint force at every rank is required to take a
00:09:57.240 pt test twice a year awesome as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year
00:10:03.120 every year of service beautiful also today at my direction every warrior across our joint force
00:10:11.700 is required to do pt every duty day should be common sense i mean most units do that already
00:10:17.900 yeah this is a guy who isn't all talk no action do as i say not as i do when he meets with the
00:10:27.760 troops he does pt with them and uh earlier uh he was at the um because trump was at the 250th
00:10:38.040 birthday for the navy i believe that was and they were having a football game and
00:10:42.920 uh hedgeseth got down there and set some kind of a record for the most people doing push-ups at
00:10:50.120 one time and he's right down there on his face this guy isn't all talk but uh they just don't
00:10:56.820 understand it they don't understand this type of thinking they don't see the military it's not a
00:11:02.440 democracy the military it isn't this isn't a you know what do you think what do you think
00:11:07.880 this is an organization that needs to be run um through through strength and disciplined
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