"Is that real?" Doocy said, not believing it could be true. The Fox and Friends hosts did their best to pretend their colleague is completely qualified to be the Secretary of Defense, even though he has no experience running anything other than a shell charity that he paid his brother with.

On Wednesday morning’s Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy said he heard the news when he saw that his own son Peter—also a Fox News star—was being talked about on Twitter as a potential press secretary in the forthcoming Trump White House.

"The View" hosts criticize Trump's pick of Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary, citing his views on women in combat and lack of government experience.