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President Donald Trump fires America’s top general in a dramatic Friday night purge and removes others to ensure a fully compliant pentagon, making him a senior military leader When he fought with him, he took decisive action to avoid repeated his first term.
Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Trump’s most senior military adviser, chairman of Prime Minister Charles “CQ” Brown and chief executive of Naval Operations, has been fired. Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses also announced he is seeking a nomination to replace the top military lawyers in the Air Force, Army and Navy who approve the legality of US military operations.
According to Hegseth’s 2024 book, none of these officials have been fired for causes, including poor performance on the battlefield and disobedience, except for his obsession with the DEI in the case of General Brown. .
Trump wants to remake the Pentagon, so he has full control over it. Of course, he is the chief commander, so it’s his privilege to do so, but by firing the first women to run the navy, Black and Francetti, Trump has unquestioned loyalty. It is intended to be an important function of the role, regardless of American domestic politics, rather than providing the best military advice to the president.
Trump has been obsessed with the US military since he was a child. He attended a military-style boarding school in New York, and one of his heroes is General George Patton, the offensive battlefield commander during World War II.
So, when Trump took office in his first term, he quickly clad in a senior general. Retired four-star general John Kelly was his second chief of staff. Retired four-star general James Matisse was his first Secretary of Defense, and active three-alien General HR McMaster was his second national security adviser.
Trump enjoyed talking about “my generals” such as “Mad Dog” Matisse, and he also found a boyish delight in the ritual aspect of being a commander. Trump was surprised by the French display of military hardware he saw at the Bastille Day celebration held in Paris on July 14, 2016.
Trump ordered the Pentagon to hold a similar show for his “salute” Independence Day speech on July 4, 2019, and the general was not disappointed. During his speech, Trump plays with a flyby of an advanced US Air Force plane flying overhead. Stealth bomber. ”
But Trump’s bromance with his general became sour over time (Nota Bene, Elon!). Because Kelly, Mattis and McMaster don’t follow Trump’s wishes in different ways. : Chaos cost. ”
McMaster welcomed him with Trump as he insisted on maintaining his course in Afghanistan and expanding the presence of the US military there. Trump has long wanted to get out of Afghanistan, but after McMaster was eased over a year at work, Trump allowed the team to begin negotiating the Taliban and the all-US withdrawal from Afghanistan. did.
Mattis was worried that Trump would start World War II and ratcheted rhetoric against Trump’s nuclear-armed North Korean dictator Kim Jong in 2017, and he said, ” It rolled slowly,” he offered South Korea a potential military option. Mattis also delayed the provision of military options due to all sorts of potential conflicts with Iran.
Trump’s final break with Mattis overcomes his battle with ISIS in Syria. While Trump insisted on withdrawing from Syria, Matisse believed that US forces should remain in Syria after Isis was defeated there to prevent the terrorist group from returning. Mattis also felt that this meant that the Syrian Kurdish forces, which were fighting Isis, were vulnerable to attacks by powerful Turkish forces, and abandoning their allies on the battlefield.
On December 19, 2018, Trump tweeted about his order to separate all US troops from Syria. The next day, Matisse meets with Trump in an oval office and tries to convince the president to reverse his decision. Trump wasn’t upset, so Mattis resigned.
Trump’s Chief of Staff Kelly was watching his time in the White House, for example by what could have prevented his watch. For example, Trump suddenly pulled out US troops from Afghanistan or withdrawed from NATO. Trump hates being “controlled,” sours his relationship with Kelly has also become sour and left the White House in December 2018.
A critical break between Trump and many US flag officers came during the nationwide protest caused by George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020. They attacked peaceful protesters near St. John’s Church. In the church, Trump lifted the Bible on camera.
After resigning, Mattis spoke little about Trump. Now he has issued an outrageous statement saying: Instead, he tries to split us up. ”
Mark Esper, a former US Army officer who replaced Trump’s then defense secretary, publicly said he would not support the use of active US troops to suppress the protests Trump had recently threatened. I stated. The psychic was fired six months later on a tweet.
On January 6th, 2021, there was yet another break with the Pentagon after Trump supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol. The chairman of Chief Mark Millie, co-general, called his Chinese counterparts to assure that the US was not likely to launch a military attack on China. On Twitter, Trump suggested that Mee should be executed for conversations with the Chinese general.
Scar tissue from Trump’s past battle with the Pentagon leadership brought Trump’s intention to take full control of the Department of Defense. When Trump led ultra loyalist Kash Patel to the powerful Pentagon job, he saw the hint in the final months of his first term. Patel was recently voted by the Senate to become the new FBI director.
Trump expects nothing more than Patel-Level loyalty, the Pentagon general and top official. And Friday night purges of six senior military officers say that he needs to lose a significant number of staff as Hegses is looking for billions of dollars in his department. It’s likely to be alcohol.
