Al-Monitor Article RatingTrump stuns Pentagon by naming Fox News host Pete Hegseth defense chief
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8% Center
- Reliability
40% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
42% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-28% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
67% : Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First," Trump said in a statement announcing his pick on Tuesday night.56% : The longtime "Fox n' Friends" host, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who reached the rank of major in the Minnesota National Guard, has long been a vocal supporter of Trump.
52% : On Monday, Trump named Republican Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida -- a frequent guest on Fox News -- to be his national security adviser."The Pentagon is in need of real reform, and they're getting a leader who has the grit to make it happen," Waltz tweeted in response to the news about Trump's selection of Hegseth.
47% : Like Huckabee and others named by Trump, Hegseth has been a trenchant supporter of Israel throughout the war that began on Oct. 7, 2023.
42% : [n]ever [b]ack [d]own," Trump wrote.
32% : He holds no noteworthy background in national security, raising questions as whether the pick will pass confirmation by Senate lawmakers once Trump takes office in January.
30% : On Tuesday, Trump named another Fox News host, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, to be Washington's ambassador to Israel, setting off a wave of hope among right-wing Israeli settlers seeking a US green light to expand illegal encroachments into militarily occupied Palestinian territories.
26% : Trump abandoned the multinational agreement in 2018, leading Iran to enrich its stockpiles to purity levels of around 60%, just shy of the estimated 90% believed to be needed for weaponization.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.