MAGA queen gives Donald Trump's White House a dire warning, after slamming Pete Hegseth

Washington D.C.: Gabrielle Cuccia, a staunch Trump supporter and Pentagon correspondent for One America News (OAN), was reportedly fired days after publishing a scathing critique of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s restrictive media policies.

Cuccia, a self-described 'MAGA girl', accused Hegseth of stifling press access following a Signal chat scandal in which an Atlantic journalist was accidentally added to a group where sensitive details about a Yemen strike were discussed.

In her Substack article, she claimed Hegseth’s team then clamped down on press interactions to prevent leaks, leaving journalists in the dark.

"The best case study for the death of the MAGA movement is the Department of Defense," she wrote, arguing that transparency had eroded under Hegseth. She alleged his staff withheld his schedule until it was too late for reporters to attend events and even pre-screened questions before press briefings—a move she called "antithetical to a free press".

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Her article, published last Monday, led to her termination by Friday. Cuccia told CNN she was asked to surrender her Pentagon badge before being fired.

Despite her loyalty to Trump’s movement, Cuccia warned that MAGA was losing its way by silencing dissent. "If anyone questioned a policy or person within MAGA, they were deemed 'not MAGA enough,'" she wrote, urging a return to the movement’s original principles.

Before OAN, Cuccia worked in the Trump White House. On Instagram, she reflected on her firing: "I was once told a peer feared I was too MAGA for the job. I guess I was."