"The only statement that should be made and that I want to make is that I love the military, I’ve always loved the military, and I will always love the military," he said in a social media post.

In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large ...

Fox News host Pete Hegseth, a longtime Trump ally, has also said he wants to purge the military of "woke" officials.