Pres. Trump terminates 4 presidential appointees

President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, fired four former presidential appointees, as reported by the UPI.

Among the 'losers' Trump canned is retired Army Gen. Mark Milley the former National Infrastructure Advisory Council. It was Milley who undermined the President's authority in his first administration by phoning his Chinese Communist counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, and reassured the commie that the U.S. would not attack them, hoping to calm their fears about the strong statements Trump made.

Milley was also a woke proponent of critical race theory and the military's approach to D.E.I. [diversity, equity and inclusion] and he mishandled the withdrawal of the military from Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of 13 Americans. 

Mark Milley

After leaving office, Milley's portrait was removed from the walls of the Pentagon by the Trump administration after the 2025 inauguration. 

Another firing was Brian Hook, an envoy to Iran in Trump's first administration and serving at the WIlson Center of Scholars. He also served Secretary of State Mike Pompeo under the administration.

In November 2019, Hook mishandled an employment issue with Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, a State Department official. An internal report claimed that Hook did not take proper action when Nowrouzzadeh faced false accusations and derogatory remarks in a conservative publication, which circulated within the State Department. This incident was part of broader accusations of political retaliation against career staff perceived to be disloyal to the Trump administration's policies.

Brian Hook

There were allegations that Hook was part of efforts to target career diplomats whose loyalty to the Trump administration was questioned. Democrats like Reps. Eliot Engel and Elijah Cummings criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for promoting Hook despite these allegations, suggesting a lack of accountability for political retribution within the State Department.

Hook also refused to sign "the MAGA vision" and is apparently not displaying allegiance to the President, which gives Trump every reason to find someone who shares the same vision.

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who served on the President's Export Council, was also given her pink slip. 

Keisha Lance Bottoms

As mayor, violent crime soared in her city and it's argued her administration did little to assuage the problem. The violence was exacerbated during the George Floyd protests and the COVID-19 crisis. While Bottoms acknowledged the crime wave, she decided not to run for another term. Also, during her tenure, the Atlanta Police Department morale was low, especially after officers were charged involved in the killing of Rayshard Brooks.

Then there was the issue of election integrity and the water main break incident during the 2020 election. Atlanta experienced a water main break at the State Farm Arena when it was being used as a polling location. It delayed vote counting, and raised questions about election integrity. 

Trump fired her on day one.

Lastly, international chef Jose Andrés, from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition was also given his walking papers by President Trump. The two had not gotten along since 2015 when Andrés pulled out of a restaurant deal with Trump's Washington, D.C. hotel after Trump made a negative statement about Mexican immigrants. The legal battle was eventually settled out of court.

Andrés has publicly criticized Trump on several occasions on issues about immigration policies, disaster relief and the President's political platform, which continued to be made even after the legal disputes.

Jose Andrés

Although Andrés had resigned a week prior to Trump's announcement, the President's actions was probably his way of showing the public his stance on those who refuse to allow him to actuate his mandate.

"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 said on Truth Social.

"Let this serve as official notice of dismissal for these four individuals with many more coming soon. ... You're fired."

The next four years are going to be very, very interesting. 

Pray for our President's safety.

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It's confirmed: Iran successfully fired nuclear capable missiles

Brian Hook
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It was confirmed Monday by senior U.S. officials that Iran has successfully test-fired a number of nuclear-capable missiles. Of course, this is in direct violation of the useless U.N. restrictions on such bellicose activity and it drew a strong negative reaction from the Trump administration.

The U.S. will now pressure European leaders to take immediate action this week in order to counter Iran's latest actions.

Iran claims that its illicit missile tests are defensive in nature, but the Trump administration refutes that and Iran envoy Brian Hook vowed tough reprisals for Iran's most recent missile tests, which are among the most provocative in recent memory and a direct threat to Israel and the United States, in that order.

"Iran has launched missiles that are capable of carrying multiple warheads, including a nuclear weapon," Hook told reporters aboard Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's airplane en route to Brussels for NATO meetings.

This latest Iranian ballistic missile test comes on the heels of fresh evidence the U.S. uncovered which ties Tehran to the proliferation of advanced weapons systems and missiles across the Middle East, including Yemen, where Iranian-backed rebels continue to fight a Saudi coalition seeking to stem the violence.

The Trump administration's response to these tests is quite different from that of former president Obama, who left Iran's missile technology alone because he was more interested in inking the landmark nuclear deal for his legacy-less legacy. Obama's dealings with Iran has gotten us to the present point.

"The Iranian government claims that its missile testing is completely defensive in nature. How exactly is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism entitled to the claim of defense?" Hook asked. "In fact, Iran's security concerns are entirely self generated. Was the plot to bomb Paris defensive? Was the assassination attempt in Denmark defensive? Is smuggling missiles to the Houthis in Yemen to attack Saudi Arabia and the Emirates defensive? Is harboring al Qaeda defensive?"

"For the last twelve years, the United Nations Security Council has been telling the Iranian regime to stop testing and proliferating ballistic missiles, and Iran continues to defy the U.N. Security Council," Hook added. "Iran's continued testing and proliferation of ballistic missiles shows that the Iran deal has not moderated the Iranian regime as some had hoped."

"It was a mistake to exclude missiles from the Iran nuclear deal and is one of the principle reasons the United States left it," Hook said, directly criticizing the Obama administration for caving to Iran's demands that its advanced missile program not be covered under the deal. "Iran's defense needs would be entirely different if they had not decided to wage sectarian wars of choice for the last 39 years."

Pompeo is likely to raise the issue of Iran's missile tests during meetings Monday and Tuesday with European officials.

The Trump administration would like to convince our European allies to impose sanctions as reprisal for Iran's behavior, but many of these allies are hesitant to move forward on sanctions.

The administration is hoping to convince European allies to move forward with new sanctions as reprisal for the missile tests, a position many of these allies are hesitant to adopt. 

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