Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta used The Daily Show’s penultimate episode of 2024 to mock Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth’s pledge not to drink if confirmed and ridiculed any Senate Republican who believes him.
Kosta introduced a pair of video clips by declaring, “But even if he’s confirmed, Pete seems to understand that being blackout drunk 23 hours a day might be a problem, which is why he’s offering to change.”
In the first clip, CNN’s Manu Raju reported that “He’s been telling members of the Senate Republican Conference that if he were confirmed as Secretary of Defense, he would not drink alcohol at all. He would abstain from drinking.”
That was followed by Hegseth himself telling Megyn Kelly, “This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I am doing…
