The defense secretary’s placard had an unfortunate misspelling.
The Daily BeastUpdated
Tue, December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM UTC
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew ridicule for a disastrous typo on his namecard during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting. Hegseth’s placard labeled his role in the administration as the “SSecretary of War” at the meeting, where he doubled down on his department’s deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean and vowed to put “narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean.” The typo was immediately mocked by critics, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who hinted at its disturbing similarity to the SS, the Nazi Germany paramilitary organization responsible for the genocide of roughly six million Jews during the Holocaust.