CBS News: Pete Hegseth Ordered The Addition Of A Makeup Studio To Pentagon Green Room

Posted • April 23, 2025: We thought MSNBC was bad, but CBS News is trying really hard to keep up. Reporter Jennifer Jacobs has a very important story — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a makeup studio at the Pentagon. Tell us they didn't have any mirrors in the green room at the White House briefing room during the Biden administration so that Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre could check their hair. What a scoop!

Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs: “News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to the green room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to add a makeup studio that can be used to prep for TV appearances, sources told CBS News. The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars. The space previously had minimal furnishings. A new director-style chair and large mirror with makeup lighting was installed. Hegseth has used the briefing room for Fox News hits. A spokesperson confirmed the green room changes and said: "For this upgrade we were deliberately conservative and opted for several less expensive, on-hand materiel solutions." Story by Eleanor Watson and me.” —— Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs: “SecDef Hegseth is doing his own makeup ahead of TV appearances, not paying for a makeup artist, a defense official told CBS News.”

Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs: “As initially planned, the renovations to the green room makeup studio in the Pentagon were going to cost more than $40,000, sources told me, but the ideas were scaled back.” —— The Defense Department jumped in with a photo of the new makeup studio: DOD Rapid Response @DODResponse: “Does the fake news NOT have anything better to do? 1. No lighted mirror. 2. It didn't cost thousands. 3. The items that were added to the GREEN ROOM (not a makeup studio) came from existing inventory. This story is TRASH!” https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpPiofMW8AA3_DV?format=jpg&name=large —— What stellar reportage. She cites a flawed story as truth, then backpedals it in her own replies. If this is what journo schools are teaching now, it explains a helluva lot about media these days. “Sources.” That’s the news? How low you fell… Serious journalism here. (…)

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