- Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost revealed that a sketch idea involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction was rejected as "too ridiculous."
- Jost recounted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that this exact scenario, which he pitched two months prior, actually occurred two weeks later.
- Last month, Hegseth delivered a sermon at the Pentagon where he quoted a passage he identified as Ezekiel 25:17, but which was actually from the cult-classic movie.
- Hegseth's prayer, which he called "CSAR 25:17," closely mirrored the lines spoken by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film.
- The actual biblical passage, Ezekiel 25:17, differs significantly from the fictionalized version Hegseth recited.
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