TMZ Straight-Up Asked Pete Hegseth, ‘Do You Feel Like You're On A Power Trip?’ And... His Face

TMZ made its first-ever appearance at a Pentagon press briefing on Friday, and its first two questions definitely made an impression on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

After Hegseth spent much of the briefing griping about the lack of support the Iran war is getting from U.S. allies, he took a few questions from the media, including two from TMZ DC.

The first question came from TMZ DC co-managing editor Jacob Wasserman, who tried to get inside Hegseth’s brain and understand his thinking.

“I’ve heard you talk a lot about bombing people and places, and when you give these orders to carry out this extreme level of violence, what’s going through your mind and your body?” Wasserman asked. “Do you have, like, an adrenaline rush? Are you scared? Do you feel like you’re on a power trip?”

As you can see from the video below, Hegseth had a slight grin before noting, “It’s a very TMZ question.”