We thought MSNBC was unhealthy, however CBS Information is making an attempt actually exhausting to maintain up. Reporter Jennifer Jacobs has a vital story — Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a make-up studio on the Pentagon. Inform us they did not have any mirrors within the inexperienced room on the White Home briefing room throughout the Biden administration in order that Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre may verify their hair.
What a scoop!
Information: @SecDef Hegseth lately ordered modifications to the inexperienced room subsequent to the Pentagon press briefing room so as to add a make-up studio that can be utilized to prep for TV appearances, sources informed @CBSNews.
The value tag for the mission was a number of thousand {dollars}.
The area…
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 23, 2025
… beforehand had minimal furnishings. A brand new director-style chair and enormous mirror with make-up lighting was put in.
Hegseth has used the briefing room for Fox Information hits.
A spokesperson confirmed the inexperienced room adjustments and stated: “For this improve we had been intentionally conservative and opted for a number of inexpensive, on-hand materiel options.”
SecDef Hegseth is doing his personal make-up forward of TV appearances, not paying for a make-up artist, a protection official informed @cbsnews‘ @ellee_watson
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 23, 2025
As initially deliberate, the renovations to the inexperienced room make-up studio within the Pentagon had been going to value greater than $40,000, sources informed me, however the concepts had been scaled again.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 23, 2025
Jacobs and Ellee Watson report:
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth lately ordered modifications to a room subsequent to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a make-up studio that can be utilized to organize for tv appearances, a number of sources informed CBS Information.
The value tag for the mission was a number of thousand {dollars}, in keeping with two of the sources, at a time when the administration is trying to find cost-cutting measures.
“Modifications and upgrades to the Pentagon Briefing Room are nothing new and routinely occur throughout adjustments in an administration,” a Protection Division spokesperson stated in a press release to CBS Information.
The renovation that was initially deliberate was estimated to value greater than $40,000, however the concepts had been scaled again, sources stated.
Hegseth, earlier than turning into protection secretary, was a morning present co-host on Fox Information’ “Fox & Associates Weekend.” Since his nomination, he has vowed to emphasise enhancements within the armed forces’ warfighting skills and army readiness.
Really useful
The Protection Division jumped in with a photograph of the brand new make-up studio:
Does the pretend information NOT have something higher to do?
1. No lighted mirror.
2. It did not value hundreds.
3. The gadgets that had been added to the GREEN ROOM (not a make-up studio) got here from current stock.This story is TRASH! https://t.co/hOrF5VNqcg pic.twitter.com/FQzXX4QgpW
— DOD Speedy Response (@DODResponse) April 23, 2025
What stellar reportage. She cites a flawed story as fact, then backpedals it in her personal replies. If that is what journo colleges are educating now, it explains a helluva lot about media nowadays.
— Barbarella (@BarbaraRueger) April 23, 2025
“Sources”
— Me & G (@mocapp) April 23, 2025
That’s the information? How low you fell…
— bossbabymom1 (@bossbabymom1) April 23, 2025
Severe journalism right here.
— WYUSMCCOP (@wyusmcleo) April 23, 2025
Care to dig in how a lot Biden’s South Courtroom Auditorium TV set value? It was full with backdrops and faux home windows. Guess you will not.
— Joey Anderson (@glock27tx) April 23, 2025
Yeah, bear in mind Joe Biden’s little TV studio?
Don’t you discover it odd Jennifer by no means stated a phrase about this? pic.twitter.com/URgDcWtinp
— Bored with being politically right (@USBornNRaised) April 23, 2025
Her bio claims: “Reporting what I do know, not what I believe.” 🤣 pic.twitter.com/s21MIoviqO
— Glen Woods (@glenwoods) April 23, 2025
“We’re actual information, Mr. President.”
That is what CBS Information is reporting on as we speak. We guess they’re nonetheless making an attempt to piggyback on the momentum of that pretend information story about Trump trying to change Hegseth.
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