Trump wrote on Truth Social that fired Hook from
the Wilson Center; Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council;
celebrity chef and humanitarian José Andrés from the President’s Council on
Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; and Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor
of Atlanta, from the President’s Export Council.
“Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My
Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and
removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous
Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great
Again,” Trump posted on Truth Social just past midnight Tuesday.
“Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4
individuals, with many more, coming soon,” Trump said before listing off the
four officials in the post that ended with “YOU’RE FIRED!”
Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, was given a preemptive pardon by former President
Biden in the final hours of his presidency. Milley has at times forcefully
criticized Trump, and Trump has suggested he should be court-martialed and
executed.
The retired general’s portrait at the Pentagon, hung in the
Joint Chiefs hallway, was taken down Monday less than two weeks after
it was put up.
Hook, who served under former Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo during Trump’s first term, was an Iran hawk who
supported sanctions the Trump administration imposed on Iran.
Bottoms was a senior adviser on Biden’s reelection campaign,
after deciding against running for a second term as Atlanta’s mayor.
Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen, has questioned
whether Trump can carry out his ambitious deportation plans, and seems to
be considering a future in politics himself.
In a flurry of executive orders Trump signed Monday, he
also ordered federal workers return to the office five days a week.
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