Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, mistakenly quoted a monologue from Quentin Tarantino’s film during a religious service at the Pentagon, instead of citing scripture. The Secretary seemed to have gotten confused during a mass for a gathering of military personnel at the Pentagon. Instead of quoting a Bible verse, he actually recited a monologue from Tarantino’s 1994 film “Pulp Fiction.”
The monologue is spoken by Jules Winnfield, a hitman in the film played by Samuel L. Jackson, as he is about to kill a man. A video of Pete Hegseth at the lectern, referencing the verse while mentioning the American pilot rescued in Iran, quickly spread on social media and American media, sparking numerous jests.
“Hegseth borrows a violent prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to bless the war against Iran during a religious service at the Pentagon in April,” titled the religious blog A Public Witness, the first to highlight the clip, subsequently picked up by various media outlets including Variety and Forbes.
In actuality, he was citing a somewhat violent prayer from Jules Winnfield, loosely inspired by the verse in question. The monologue from the film “Pulp Fiction” goes: “
