Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth proudly boasted of never washing his hands: ‘Germs are not real’
‘Germs are not a real thing.’
'Germs are not a real thing.'
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Hegseth’s remark drew a flurry of headlines and online backlash at the time, prompting him to clarify that he was fully joking.
“It’s ridiculous to me because of how people take literal and serious certain things and their heads explode,” Hegseth told
USA Today.
He added that the banter was meant to call out those who obsess over germs.
“My half-hearted commentary to the point is, we live in a society where people walk around with bottles of Purell in their pockets, and they sanitize 19,000 times a day as if that’s going to save their life,” he said. “I take care of myself and all that, but I don’t obsess over everything all the time.”