House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has described Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a “dumb effing individual” and pledged to “keep the pressure” on until he is fired.

In a video uploaded to the X platform, Jeffries denounced Hegseth as an “extremist” over the removal of several books at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Jeffries complained:

These DEI hires in the Trump administration, like Pete Hegseth, the so-called Secretary of Defense – Dumb Effing Individuals – continue to try to test our resolve and cancel our history.

The latest is a book ban at the Naval Academy that removes works, including those about slavery, the civil rights movement and the Holocaust. At the same time, keeping books written by Adolf Hitler.

Apparently for these extremists, racist Nazi ideology and White supremacy is okay. We’re going to keep the pressure on these extremist who continue to try to whitewash our history.

They tried to cancel Jackie Robinson. We reversed it. They try to cancel Harriet Tubman. we reversed it. They tried to cancel the Tuskegee Airmen. We reversed it.

We’re going to keep the pressure on until this book band is reversed and Pete Hegseth is fired.

The Navy has confirmed that it removed the books from the library in order to comply with directives issued by the president that seek to eliminate the racist Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ideology from across the federal government.

“We can confirm the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from their Nimitz Library collection in order to ensure compliance with all directives outlined in executive orders issued by the president,” a Navy spokesperson said.

“Nimitz Library houses roughly 590,000 print books, 322 databases, and over 5,000 print journals and magazines to support the academic inquiries and intellectual development of Midshipmen.”