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.
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.
"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.
Trump boasted on Truth Social that he had ‘fired’ Biden appointee Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, but the humanitarian chef said he had submitted
With his infamous “You’re Fired!” phrase, Trump terminated Lance Bottoms via social media, but the former mayor reminded him she had already resigned.
President Trump kept his Day 1 actions going after midnight Monday by firing four presidential appointees from the Biden administration.
Donald Trump, who took office as US President on Monday, decided to remove over a thousand civil servants appointed by his predecessor Joe Biden from their posts .
Trump has often criticized his former top general, whose portrait was taken down at the Pentagon just after the new administration took office.
Chef José Andrés has responded to being “fired” as a presidential appointee by President Donald Trump, who first announced the news on his social platform Truth Social.
President Donald Trump declared that he was firing Joe Biden appointee and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and she quickly reminded him that she had resigned from her post weeks ago.
Though Trump started off his first full day as president by unceremoniously firing four prominent appointees from Biden’s administration, several of them pushed back on his characterization of events.
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.