Pete Hegseth: Alpha Male!

[AStern]

Pete Hegseth struggles to bench press one plate

Pete Hegseth struggles to bench press one plate

— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T15:38:15.169885271Z

[mr715]

1. He has bird legs like I have bird legs!

But I can bench more than him. Also, without kicking like that.

Critical point, though, why he is making content? Isn't there a war going on for the secretary of "war" (defense) to oversee?

He is a douche with a capital bag.



Edit: that is a man who goes to the gym and only uses the machines.

[-misanthroptimist]

2. He's as phony as the alpha male myth.

[Prairie Gates]

3. Unless he was lifting to failure that's pretty bad

Lots of fourteen year-olds do sets with that weight. It's 135lbs. He probably weighs 190-200.

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. Good lord

I can do better than that and I'm a small 54 year old woman.

[SheltieLover]

5. Alki male is more like it.

[Krazy_Kat]

6. His bench press is as good as his pull-up!

[GenThePerservering]

7. It's the last of a string of

struggling half-assed reps with #135.

[Celerity]

8. Alpha berk.....