Trump Fires Joint Chiefs of Staff Purge

Saturday, February 22, 2025

President Donald Trump on Friday terminated Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman CQ Brown Jr., the country's highest-ranking military officer, from his position. Brown, a fighter pilot, was the second Black person to serve as Joint Chiefs chairman after Army Gen. Colin Powell held the role from 1989 to 1993.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 09:27 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

" Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight." -- Josh Marshall, TPM

Comments

This is so typical for the racist rapist.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-22 05:39 AM

It's a dictatorship. It has happened.

#2 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-22 09:33 AM

"Now repeat after me; I solemnly swear I will be loyal to Donald Trump above all other allegiances and oaths, so hekp me Trump!"

#3 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-22 09:45 AM

This dishonorable coward doesn't deserve the honor to lick the JCOS Chief's boots clean with his disgusting tongue.

#4 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-02-22 10:27 AM

Yes, apparently if you're NOT a White male, you're automatically a DEI hire and you must go.

OCU

#5 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-02-22 10:47 AM

"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed," Gabriel Sterling, with the Georgia secretary of state's office.

"It has to stop," he said. "Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up. And if you take a position of leadership, show some."

Prophetic words ...

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-22 11:03 AM

It's a dictatorship. It has happened.
#2 | POSTED BY E1G1

It has happened, under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden.

Obama purged 197 senior officers, including General David McKiernan, the first theater commander sacked since the Korean War.

"Now repeat after me; I solemnly swear I will be loyal to Donald Trump above all other allegiances and oaths, so hekp me Trump!"

I am not sure why people are upset over civilian control of the military? AFAIK The US isn't some praetorianist country.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-22 11:14 AM

#7 Oeironaut Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden didn't fire people just because they werre POC or women which is what King DJT is doing? I guess you feel like he does that the only people that should ever be employed are SWASP males!

#8 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2025-02-22 04:42 PM

- It has happened, under

He's like the Princess of Whataboutims.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-22 04:44 PM

1TrumpSupporter doesn't know what the word "purged" means.

He's simply posting misinformation that's been circulating amongst rightwing media, desperately trying to excuse the Trump Administration's massive layoffs.

Also. None of the people who were laid off under previous administrations were done in order to justify passing a $4.5 trillion tax cut for the excessively wealthy.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-22 04:49 PM

The corruption deepens:

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it

This is the most dangerous move yet
The canary is gasping for air

fpwellman.substack.com

#11 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 08:03 PM

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