Pete Hegseth, United States Secretary of Defense, during a visit to the United States, on March 26, 2025. (Photo taken from his X account)
One controversy follows another. Recently, he was making headlines due to "Signalgate," and now he is in the news for his new tattoo. Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense, at the center of a sensitive U.S. military information leak in a Signal encrypted messaging conversation involving Trump administration officials and a journalist by mistake, sparked an uproar on social media on Wednesday. The issue is the Arabic word tattooed on his right bicep: كافر or kafir, meaning "infidel" or "non-believer."Tattoo sported by the US NavySince his confirmation as the head of one of the world's largest armies, the far-right convictions of this Minnesota native have drawn attention. In January, the British newspaper The Guardian revealed that Pete Hegseth supports the theory of "sphere sovereignty," an extremist Christian "theocratic and...
One controversy follows another. Recently, he was making headlines due to "Signalgate," and now he is in the news for his new tattoo. Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense, at the center of a sensitive U.S. military information leak in a Signal encrypted messaging conversation involving Trump administration officials and a journalist by mistake, sparked an uproar on social media on Wednesday. The issue is the Arabic word tattooed on his right bicep: كافر or kafir, meaning "infidel" or "non-believer."Tattoo sported by the US NavySince his confirmation as the head of one of the world's largest armies, the far-right convictions of this Minnesota native have drawn attention. In January, the British newspaper The Guardian revealed that Pete Hegseth supports the theory of "sphere sovereignty," an extremist Christian "theocratic...
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