{"id":19119,"date":"2026-02-18T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-touts-presidents-day-strike-on-boat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:12","slug":"hegseth-touts-presidents-day-strike-on-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-touts-presidents-day-strike-on-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth touts Presidents Day strike on boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commended the Trump administration&rsquo;s recent boat strikes in the Caribbean in a Tuesday social media post.&nbsp; &ldquo;Turns out President&rsquo;s Day &mdash; under President Trump &mdash; is not a good day to run drugs,&rdquo; Hegseth wrote on the social platform X.&nbsp; The secretary was replying to a mission report from the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5742773-trump-administration-boat-strikes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commended the Trump administration&rsquo;s recent boat strikes in the Caribbean in a Tuesday social media post.&nbsp; &ldquo;Turns out President&rsquo;s Day &mdash; under President Trump &mdash; is not a good day to run drugs,&rdquo; Hegseth wrote on the social platform X.&nbsp; The secretary was replying to a mission report from the U.S&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}