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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was criticized online this week after he quipped that he only speaks “American” during a speech in front of Latin American leaders at President Donald Trump’s Miami golf club this past weekend.
Hegseth cracked the joke after Trump similarly trumpeted his disinterest in learning other languages at the “Shield of the Americas” summit he hosted. The president said the purpose of the event was to coordinate joint U.S. and Latin American military action against cartels in the region, calling the effort “the Americas counter-cartel coalition.”
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Trump told those at the summit that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio “loves going to your countries” before acknowledging that Rubio, who speaks Spanish, has “a language advantage” over him.
“Because I’m not learning your damn language, I don’t have time,” Tr
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