US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Faces Backlash Over Body-Shaming Canadian Cadets

Pete Hegseth criticized for body-shaming Canadian cadet program members

US defense secretary faced backlash for attempting to mock Canada’s armed forces amid trade war A social media post by Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defense, body-shaming female members of a Canadian youth development program remained online on Wednesday despite a furious backlash on both sides of the border. On Monday night Hegseth posted on X a photograph of two people in uniform with a Canadian flag and the caption “this is real”, an apparent attempt at mocking the country’s armed forc...

By Richard Luscombe