Opinion: Trump’s Dogs Are Back On the Leash

On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to blow Iran “off the face of the Earth” if it attacks a U.S. ship.

And since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has sounded—and looked—like MAGA’s ideal warfighter since Trump unleashed the dogs of war two months ago, it seemed certain that he would be equally combative at the 8 a.m. Tuesday Pentagon press briefing.

A photo illo illustration of Pete Hegseth in a dog house. / Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty

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