Republican in Damage Control After Pete Hegseth Comments
- Newsrooms
- 26
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Slowing
8 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 99% of the past week’s 4034 stories, and number 19 of 1726 in News.Related
Trump thanks US troops for war on Iran and defends Pete Hegseth (shares Veterans Day and Hegseth); (shares Hegseth and Veterans Day)
1File photo: Pete Hegseth
‘Look out, Melania,’ Kimmel joked during his monologue Tuesday night
The Daily Beast didn’t include a summary, so this is The Independent’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Pete Hegseth
Peter Brian Hegseth is an American politician, U.S. Army veteran, and former television personality who has been serving as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.4
The story so far
26 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 42
- Newsrooms and sources
- 26
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 8 in the three before).
First with it: Sky News, 1 day before anyone else.
Reported by 26 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 1 |
| Tue | 5 |
| Wed | 17 |
| Today | 19 |
Where the coverage is from
Sources and credits
- 1
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- 2
The Daily Beast: Republican in Damage Control After Pete Hegseth Comments
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The Independent: Kimmel says Hegseth ‘kissed the royal a**’ in his plea not to be impeached
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Background: “Pete Hegseth”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)


