An angular eagle behind the defense secretary departed from the Pentagon’s established branding. Critics saw echoes of the Third Reich.
A reimagined “Department of War” logo displayed behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a recent speech drew immediate comparisons to Third Reich iconography.
Speaking to Air Force Academy cadets on Saturday, Hegseth stood in front of a monochrome logo for his agency that differs from the designs in the Defense Department’s official branding guide. The backdrop features a stylized eagle that critics compared to the straight-edged Reichsadler used by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
America has always been a bit nazi. Even the surfers
There’s no olive branch.
That’s sort of disturbing itself given the symbology of an olive branch.
Also, why did they change it from 13 stars (from the original colonies I think) to 5? Nazis are VERY image based people (so much so they would probably get classified as a personality disorder thinking about it, self-harm, cognitive dissonance, splitting) so they mean everything they show.
The DOD eagle is very close to the shape used, just with a slight swoop to the top of the wings.
Sometimes the wings have been pretty straight.
Both of those were taken from .mil pages. The major difference is in the straight horizontal feathers, which does match the Reichsadler.
It’s questionable, but I don’t think this is a slam dunk you take to your Fox News parents
Agree. It’s even right there on the flag two feet away, which they’ve been using since 1949.
Fox News parents are already gone lol
i mean. the fox news parents are already probably nazis anyway.
If only they’d done any other deliberately Nazi-esque things you could include to prove a pattern of behavior.
It’s not accidental, it’s intentional.
And that’s taking the connection to Roman Empire out of the equation
Yuuup. I’m waiting for they stop pretending they’re not following the Hitler playbook.
Giving credit to others is not part of their modus operandi.
They’d spin it somehow I guess how they’ve been doing it. You’re probably right. They might not credit the man but they are gladly accepting the playbook.
Pretty sure you could have stopped waiting back when they put up concentration camps
I was listening to NPR this morning and they had a guy from Newyork who was taken to a concentration camp in Louisiana. He wrote a book about it.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-5984966/mahmoud-khalils-104-days-in-ice-detention
Y’all Nazis don’t get to monopolize eagles.
Especially since the Nazis stole our eagle first.
The Romans would like a word.
Other than the guy standing in front of it, pretty well a duplicate
The dude with a swastika tattoo who’s in charge of a fascist regime’s military and just launched the new Reichsministerium für die Kirchliche Angelegenheiten had a logo redesigned to look like the Nazi eagle
…and someone thinks this is a coincidence?
Long before this he was showing signs.
Hail hydra i guess, issue is only the dumbest heads remain.
Absurd. So many flags and symbols have an eagle in this exact. same. position. There are enough real problems without this kind of absolute shite.
While I agree - Nazis are image focused. They have to look powerful, and look victimized, look successful, look like they know what they’re doing.
It’s not entirely a distraction - its a warning sign that they don’t intend to ensure peace.
Not sure this is surprising given how ultra-nationalist both the 3rd Reich and Magats are.
Symbols are for the symbol minded. I care about fascist policy, not iconography. He could stand in front of a bust of Hitler for all I care just so long as he stops murdering fisherman, Iranian kids, and heroic drug smugglers.
1: all humans are “symbol minded” it’s how language works.
2: that’s stupid and dishonest and you’re stupid and dishonest for saying it
