Published Jul 14, 2026, 10:16 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source
The truth about Pete Hegseth’s strange campaign against beards
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T he year is 2018 and Pete Hegseth has just come back from his summer holidays. Hegseth, who is still just a Fox News host, not a defense secretary keen on ordering possible war crimes, has grown a nice little beard during his time off. He is hoping his bosses at Fox might let him keep the facial hair, even if it’s just the moustache. He seems to think it makes him look quite dapper. Alas, some of his viewers disagree. A woman called Patti writes in to Fox & Friends urging him to get that “fur”