"We've never seen a Secretary of a Cabinet position have to SELL the PRESIDENTS ideas with bad AI commercials," one person noted on social media. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took to social media on Thursday to make the case for making what he called ― in all caps, no less ― “a GENERATIONAL DOWN PAYMENT on America’s national defense.” The White House is calling for a whopping $1.5 trillion in its 2027 military budget proposal , and the head of the Department of Defense, er, War defended the