In 2024, Pete Hegseth said concerns over his Jerusalem cross tattoo and the symbol’s ties to extremists caused the District of Columbia National Guard to pull him from a mission to guard the inauguration of President Joe Biden and helped spur him to retire from the military.[21][22] According to fact-checker Snopes: “Two of Hegseth’s Christian-based tattoos [the Jerusalem Cross and the Deus valt tattoo] use symbology that has become associated with — but doesn’t necessarily indicate adherence to — Christian nationalist views. Historically, both tattoos have connections to the Crusades, a series of wars in which Christian armies sought to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim rule in the 11th-13th centuries.”
Are those Nazi adjacent tatoos?
He’s got deus vult and the Jerusalem cross-- white supremacy bullshit that can be argued away as “no I’m just really into being christian, promise!”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cross#Modern_use
Even if they’re not, that shit is too close to Edward Norton in American History X for my comfort level.