Is this the first foreign military base on US soil? Isn't this kind of a "big deal"?

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Surely he misspoke!

umm looks like it's a thing: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-qatar-air-force-facility-us-base-idaho/

Making America Great by hosting foreign militaries?

Qatar has always been our greatest ally 👀

Ok, no, it seems it is an explicit F-15 "training and interoperability" base.

I guess I welcome our new Qatari overlords 🙇

It's for training pilots to fly the F15. There's already a similar arrangement with Singapore, for example.