Newsom Asks Pentagon Pete Drug Question After ‘Manic’ Appearance

Getty Trump administration nemesis Gavin Newsom suggested Pete Hegseth should take a drug test after the Pentagon chief’s ranting rebuttal of claims about horror conditions on a U.S. warship.

“We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain, has everything we can provide them at every single moment,” an intense Hegseth, 46, told reporters in Panama, referring to the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier on extended deployment near Iran.

The defense secretary’s comments follow reports that several service members tried to jump overboard due to worsening conditions on the ship, including shortages of basic supplies, moldy showers, and long stretches without hot water.

Service members’ mental health is also a concern, their family members have said.

“As someone who’s... not been on a ship like that, but been on long deployments, I feel it,” added Hegseth, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan while in the Army.

His answer caught the attention of Newsom, the liberal Trump-bashing governor of California.

“He’s delusional, manic, agitated,” he posted on X , highlighting Hegseth’s arm-thrashing display.

Suggesting the self-styled ‘Secretary of War’ might be on drugs, Newsom added, “Has Pete Hegseth done a drug test lately? Why are the results not public?” Hegseth, whose ex-wife confided in the FBI that he “ drinks more often than he doesn’t ” and whose former Fox News colleagues said he reeked of alcohol before going on air, promised to cut off all booze ahead of his Senate confirmation, which required a Vice President JD Vance tiebreaker.

Hegseth’s candidacy was also marred by a number of other scandals, including multiple sexual assault allegations, infidelities , and a leaked letter written by his mother calling him an “abuser.” The Department of Defense has been approached for comment.

On Thursday, Arizona Sen.

Ruben Gallego and Massachusetts Rep.

Seth Moulton criticized Hegseth’s comments, too.

“I am in communication with a spouse who is forwarding me her husband’s text messages.

Stop lying and fix the problem,” Gallego, an Iraq War Marine corporal, responded to Hegseth in a post on X.