Journalists and other Democratic activists are seething after a government watchdog revealed that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon spent a total of $24 million on ribeye steak, lobster tail, and Alaskan king crab last September. They appeared to be under the impression that Hegseth had personally expensed the food to serve at fancy cocktail parties. “It never occurred to them that the Pentagon routinely spends a lot of money on food for American troops,” our Andrew Stiles writes. All the usual suspects joined the pile-on. Anti-Trump commentator Molly Jong-Fast slammed the “frivolous” expenditures on “luxury” food items. Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan sarcastically urged DOGE to look into Hegseth’s spending. “But SNAP recipients are the REAL problem,” Atlantic contributor Jemele Hill clapped back. Gavin Newsom posted an AI-generated photo of Hegseth enjoying a steak and lobster feast at home by himself. “Luther Abel, a Navy veteran and National Review editor, argued that the people expressing outrage were inadvertently admitting that they ‘don’t know anyone in the military.’ If they did, they would presumably know that U.S. service members are typically served steak and lobster on the eve of deployment or before a hazardous mission. It is a traditional way to boost morale by giving them a nice meal every now and then.” “It’s hardly the first time liberal ideologues who don’t like the military (or know anything about it) have denounced the Trump administration for feeding the troops. ‘This kind of waste has to stop. It’s an insult to taxpayers,’ Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) whined in 2019 after Open The Books uncovered $4.6 million in Pentagon spending on crab and lobster.” READ MORE: Journalists Rage at Pentagon for Feeding Troops