Secretary of War Pete Hegseth didn’t mince any words when asked why prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were still alive.
Hegseth was speaking to reporters in Florida following a trip to the controversial military prison that was erected in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks.
15 prisoners remain, with nine of them having been charged with war crimes.
So, why are they still alive? Hegseth explained, and added that he wished they weren’t.
“These Gitmo detainees should have been executed in my mind personally a long time ago,” Hegseth said, and blamed the agonizingly slow “gears of American justice” for why they weren’t.
Hegseth: “These Gitmo detainees should have been executed in my mind personally a long time ago” pic.twitter.com/PUpdskqIfN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 10, 2026
Hegseth took a ton of heat for his comments from leftists on X (as he always does), but others praised War Secretary and the Trump administration’s strategy to foreign affairs.
Pete Hegseth showing up at Gitmo in the middle of ramping up the squeeze on Cuba’s communist regime? Perfect.
Guantanamo isn’t just a base — it’s a strategic dagger in the Caribbean. Time to remind Havana who actually runs this hemisphere.
War Secretary doing War Secretary…
— The Ugly Patriot (@the_uglypatriot) June 10, 2026
🚨 JUST IN: SecWar Pete Hegseth just dropped TRUTH NUKES to our troops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
“We are TAKING BACK our hemisphere!” 🇺🇸
“There was something called the MONROE Doctrine…we now have the DONROE DOCTRINE! The Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The terrain in… pic.twitter.com/gDRRaHvAcC
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 10, 2026
— I❤️FL (@RoseGold120918) June 10, 2026
Pete Hegseth just brought the Monroe Doctrine back from the dead.
Focus on our hemisphere.
Stop getting dragged into everyone else’s problems.
This is what real leadership sounds like. pic.twitter.com/FGQZBTCWWW
— Keyser🇺🇸 (@KeyserSoese) June 10, 2026
Trump knew he wasn’t wrong when he chose him. The perfect Sec of War
— Marie (@marielvallejos4) June 10, 2026
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