Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., wants the Pentagon cut — literally.

During a Wednesday night appearance on Fox News where he advocated for cuts to the Pentagon’s budget, Alabama’s senior senator invented a word for a three-sided shape, apparently forgetting that triangles exist.

“Pete Hegseth has welcomed DOGE to come into the military. We need to start in the Pentagon. We need to make a trigon — three sides — instead of five sides in the Pentagon,” Tuberville told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

“It is way too big, way overbloated. They have, what? Thirty, 40,000 people in the Pentagon? And 100,000 people across the street in Arlington that are making tons of money,” Tuberville continued.

“We have to cut back and do it for the warfighter, help the warfighter build equipment, do the things we need to do.

This week, the Defense Department began cutting 5,400 probationary workers and put a hiring freeze in place, according to the Associated Press.

It comes after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, were at the Pentagon last week and received lists of such employees, U.S. officials told the AP. They said those lists did not include uniformed military personnel, who are exempt. Probationary employees are generally those on the job for less than a year and who have yet to gain civil service protection.

“We can get the cuts, but we need to continue to do what Pete has done,” Tuberville continued. “Cut out all the bloat, all the DEI, get our military back to a killing machine, somebody that can protect this country and our allies.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.