Actor Sean Penn hammered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for attempting to erase LGBTQ activist Harvey Milk’s service record. Penn, 64, ripped Hegseth as “Chief PETTY Officer” in an email to The Hollywood Reporter after it was revealed in a leaked Pentagon memo that the United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk—christened in Milk’s honor on Nov.

The Trump Administration has recommended the renaming of several vessels named after civil rights icons, including Milk, Harriet Tubman, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Mlik star Sean Penn and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black,

Navy tradition and basic decency make clear the beleaguered defense secretary shouldn’t rename the ship. Hegseth is doing it anyway.