A portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley, a target of President Donald Trump's wrath, disappeared from a Pentagon hallway hours after the inauguration.
Former President Joe Biden's pre-emptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will give the retired military official a shield against any action that President Donald Trump might take against him amid their highly public feud.
Six years after Team Trump wanted the USS John McCain “out of sight,” a painting of Trump’s former joint chiefs’ chairman had to be put out of sight, too.
The portrait of Milley hung in an ornate hallway that is dedicated to the history of the Joint Chiefs and displays 19 other paintings of all other prior chairmen going back to Gen. Omar Bradley.
Gen. Mark Milley, the now-retired former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commented on the pardon he received in Biden's final hours in office.
President Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Gen. Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021.
With just hours remaining in office, the president issued the pardons to protect people Donald Trump had threatened.
The Pentagon pulled down a portrait of retired US Army Gen. and frequent Donald Trump critic Mark Milley just hours after the 47th president’s Monday inauguration in Washington, DC. The portrait of the now-retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a short-lived run in the hallway filled with paintings of Milley’s predecessors — it had only been 10 days before,
The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.
On Monday, Trump repeated his “I was saved (from assassination) by God to make America great again” mantra. (Despite his repeated references to God, the president swore his oath without placing his hand on either of the two Bibles Melania Trump held out to him, one a Lincoln Bible and the second a Bible Trump’s mother gave him.)
The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.