Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’ 67%
The Guardian - By Ashifa Kassam - 6/7/2026, 12:22 PM
Negativity Bias 70.9% - Appeal to Emotion 27.4% - Framing Effect 21.4%
The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has been accused by historians and rights campaigners of “grotesque stupidity” and desecrating the memory of the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy after he sought to link immigration to the D-day anniversary, saying Europe was facing a different “invasion” of its shores. Speaking in... more