President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he plans to remove over 1,000 appointees from the administration of former President Joe Biden, announcing four dismissals on social media, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley.
Trump’s commitment to thousands of changes is in line with his continued pledge to rid the federal government of employees he views as disloyal.
Upon returning to the White House on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the removal of Brian Hook, who served as his special envoy for Iran during his previous term.
President Donald Trump removed four holdover high-profile presidential appointees early Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform to deliver the message.
President Donald Trump starts his day in the White House Tuesday for the first time in four years, after an inauguration that unleashed a flurry of ‘day one’ moves designed to change the course of the world’s largest economy in his first hours in charge.
"YOU'RE FIRED!", Trump wrote in an early morning post on his Truth Social platform that named Milley, Andres, his former Iran envoy Brian Hook and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who Biden appointed to an export council.
With his infamous “You’re Fired!” phrase, Trump terminated Lance Bottoms via social media, but the former mayor reminded him she had already resigned.
US President Donald Trump fired chef Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition after he was seen with Trump's alleged assassin. Trump also dismissed Mark Milley, Brian Hook,
"Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars ... to open a spot at the Trump International Hotel in DC years ...
President Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Gen. Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021.
He began by dismissing four people: retired Gen. Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; celebrity chef José Andrés from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, from the President’s Export Council.
President Donald Trump issued a “dismissal” of Global Food Institute Founder José Andrés from his role on a presidential council, though the celebrity chef said he had already resigned.