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(CNN) — President Donald Trump fired Joint Chiefs Chairman Charles Q. Brown in an abrupt shakeup at the Pentagon Friday night.In an announcement on his TruthRead More
(CNN) — President Donald Trump fired Joint Chiefs Chairman Charles Q. Brown in an abrupt shakeup at the Pentagon Friday night.
In an announcement on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Brown a “fine gentleman” and an “outstanding leader,” while hinting at more firings to come. “Finally, I have also directed [Defense] Secretary [Pete] Hegseth to solicit nominations for five additional high level positions, which will be announced soon,” he wrote.
The firing had been anticipated for weeks, with rumors about the impending dismissal circulating around the Pentagon. But speculation about the termination of Brown and others became more serious when a formal list was recently shared with some Republican lawmakers.
Trump has railed against what he called “woke” generals and officers, and Brown was a frequent target of right-wing criticism. Many officials in the Pentagon openly wondered whether Brown would be fired quickly after Trump’s inauguration.
But Trump and Brown were pictured next to each other at the Army-Navy football game in December, signaling a potential warming of relations between the two men. In his first term, Trump appointed Brown to the Chief of the Air Force, a position he held until former President Joe Biden nominated him to be the Joint Chiefs Chair in October 2023. Brown’s term was scheduled to end in 2027.
Hegseth had also called for Brown’s termination. In November, just days before Trump picked Hegseth to lead the Pentagon, Hegseth said, “First of all, you’ve got to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.”
But the two routinely met and worked together since Hegseth’s confirmation.
Trump announced the firing of the top US general on the day Brown visited the southwest border, one of the Pentagon’s top priorities under the new administration. Brown met with the Joint Task Force North, which lead’s the military’s border mission.
“Border Security has always been critical to the defense of our homeland,” Brown posted on social media in the hours before he was fired.
On social media, Trump said he would nominate Air Force Lt. Gen. John Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an extraordinary move since Caine is retired, according to an Air Force official, and is not a 4-star general.
Trump said Caine was a “warfighter” who was “instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate.”
Federal law requires the president to pick the top military officers from the combatant commands or the chiefs of the military services, all of which are 4-star positions. But the law also allows the President to waive the requirement if “such action is necessary in the national interest.”
Trump has raved about Caine for years, dating back to his first term. At the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said he met Caine during a visit to Iraq. Caine was then serving as the deputy command for US Special Operations in the Middle East and Operation Inherent Resolve, the ongoing campaign to defeat ISIS.
Trump said Caine came from “central casting” and said he could have the campaign to eliminate ISIS “totally finished in one week.” Trump says Caine told him, “They won’t know what the hell hit them, sir.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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