Meet Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: a 'crusader' pushing war on China & Iran To run the US military in his second term, Donald Trump has nominated as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a neoconservative self-declared "crusader" who is eager for a Western civilizational war on China and Iran. Review of the extremely hawkish history of the Fox News host turned likely Pentagon chief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WBjcfVhu4