Article continues below advertisementPresident Donald Trump publicly praised embattled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, highlighting an incident where Hegseth reportedly stood on a table during a security incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner while others took cover.Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, May 6, the POTUS appeared to address Hegseth's wife, Jennifer Rauchet, a former executive producer at Fox News, saying, "But we had a little dinner the other night, and your husband was standing on the top of a table. Everyone else was under the table.