After Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefly spoke Spanish at the Shield of the Americas conference last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed him to the podium with a remark that quickly overshadowed the exchange. Standing at the lectern, Hegseth declared: “I only speak American.” The comment, delivered moments after Rubio addressed the audience in Spanish, was met with a muted response in the room but rapidly spread online after clips of the moment circulated across social media. One