The View panelist Ana Navarro took aim at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Thursday, mocking the former Fox News host as a “big suck-up to Trump” after his fiery Pentagon press briefing hours earlier.

During a discussion on the U.S. strike on Iran and President Donald Trump’s rhetoric toward news outlets and reporters, Navarro raised a comparison between the president’s two terms, suggesting that former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis and ex-Chief of Staff Jon Kelly has a better handle on his behavior.

Now, he’s got a cabinet filled with “trained parrots,” according to Navarro.

“Today, he’s got Pete Hegseth, a weekend Fox News host whose biggest qualification to be Department of Defense secretary is that he is a big suck-up to Donald Trump and so then they all go out there and they use the same exact language,” Navarro said. “They all use the word obliterate. I want to give them a thesaurus at least because if it was a drinking game and the word was obliterate, we’d all be dead of alcohol poisoning.”

She added: “They sound like trained parrots.”

Read the exchange here:

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t think anyone controls what [Trump] says. But I would point to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Caine, who briefed today. He was much more measured and described the the operation, explained why it was successful and praised our brave U.S. troops who carried this out.

ANA NAVARRO: But when you say why do they — who are you talking about?

JOY BEHAR: I’m talking the Republican congress, his cabinet, people around him.

NAVARRO: They let him —

BEHAR: I’m not saying they’ve done it or I’m hopeful.

SARA HAINES: For much lesser things.

BEHAR: I’m praying that they will.

NAVARRO: I think the point — when you ask that question, the point is that if — it really highlights the
difference between Trump’s first term and Trump’s second term. In Trump’s first term, he had a general [Mattis] running DoD. He had a Gen. Kelly at the Department of Homeland Security and then as his chief of staff. Today, he’s got Pete Hegseth, a weekend Fox News host whose biggest qualification to be Department of Defense secretary is that he is a big suck-up to Donald Trump and so then they all go out there and they use the same exact language, right? They all use the word obliterate. I want to give them a thesaurus at least because if it was a drinking game and the word was obliterate, we’d all be dead of alcohol poisoning. They sound like trained parrots.

The Pentagon briefing on the Iran strike was marked by several tense moments, including Hegseth’s attack on former Fox News colleague Jennifer Griffin, who he called “about the worst” — leaving the veteran national security correspondent visibly stunned.

Watch above via ABC.

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