Hegseth never washes his hands

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This pesters me

Cautionary tale here: Hegseth never washes his hands and apparently lost a finger to gangrene

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-03T21:44:49.950Z

[haele]

1. There's a lot of viri and bacteria out there

Just rubbing their feathery little filieas together just waiting for him to come by....
I can see little bugs like e-coli just waiting for the chance

[Pinback]

2. Feb. 2019 reference, per Snopes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-washing-hands-germs/

[Midnight Writer]

3. "I don't believe women giving consent is real. I've never seen it. I don't think it happens."

Secretary of WAR! explaining why he slips roofies into women's drinks.

[Jim__]

4. Apparently, this was said as a joke.

BBC Canada

His remarks came after co-hosts Ed Henry and Jedediah Bila made fun of him for eating left-over pizza.

...

Mr Hegseth later told USA Today that his remarks were intended to be a joke.

"We live in a society where people walk around with bottles of Purell (a hand sanitiser) in their pockets, and they sanitise 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."

[Alice Kramden]

9. It had to have been a joke

Or else he'd be a pariah - well, more of a pariah to some. Ludicrous assertion from a small-minded man.

[LisaL]

16. That's what he said afterwards.

Was it really a joke?

[Sneederbunk]

5. Does he bathe at all?

[ybbor]

19. Seriously?

That guy has more product in his bathroom than a sorority house! He’s such a he-man, I mean, she-man. Metro sexual to the max!

[Amaryllis]

20. I have the same question. Hard to take a shower without washing hands in the process.

[wyn borkins]

6. He Says Germs are Not Real

PB Hegseth is a former television personality who is serving as the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

He was also the publisher of a student newspaper.

[jmowreader]

7. He doesn't need to

He just slops a little vodka over them and...problem solved!

[Biophilic]

8. Where the heck did trump find all these degenerate weirdos?

Seriously, what giant log did he turn over?

[LakeVermilion]

10. He grew up in Michelle Bachman's district...

FWIW.

[Srkdqltr]

11. Thats stupid.

[Manatee]

12. Oh

dear

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Remind me to never shake hands with Kegsie.

Not that I would, because turds like him don’t wash their hands after taking a dump and spread their invisible essence all over the planet.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. If this was intended as a joke, it was not very funny

It this was intended as a joke, it was clearly not funny. This is the video from the snopes article

[LisaL]

15. Germs are not real because he can't see them?

That's the kind of genius we have in charge of our armed forces. No wonder he made a flu vaccine optional.

[mr715]

17. But... he believes in God and deity is harder to see than germs...

Something doesn't add up here...

Oh.

He's just an unfunny gross jackass.

Knew it.

[republianmushroom]

18. Only the best people,

not the most intelligent.