Trump says he fired Biden appointees; chef José Andrés says he resigned

President Donald Trump said he will fire hundreds of people appointed by Joe Biden's administration.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he plans to fire more than 1,000 people appointed by former President Joe Biden's administration and that he had immediately fired four individuals, including celebrity chef José Andrés and former top general Mark Milley.

However, Andrés said on social media that his two-year term on the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition had already ended. The Spanish chef, whose World Central Kitchen food aid program feeds people affected by disasters, said he had resigned last week.

“My Office of Presidential Personnel is actively in the process of identifying and removing more than a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration who are not aligned with our vision of Making America Great Again,” Trump said in an online post. social Truth Social during the night.

“Let this serve as a firing notice,” Trump wrote, naming Milley, Andrés, his former Iran envoy Brian Hook and Keisha Lance Bottoms, whom Biden appointed to an export council. “YOU ARE FIRE!” he wrote.

The move comes amid other layoffs in Trump's first salvos to gut the federal bureaucracy during his second term. Trump has promised to dismantle the “deep state” by purging officials who do not adhere to his agenda and intends to strip job protections from 50,000 federal employees.

In reference to Trump's message “You are fired,” Andrés, in a post on the social network who works to unite America.”

Trump, in his social media post overnight, also said he was firing Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.

Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom Trump has suggested should be executed for holding secret talks with China, said he was grateful for Biden's preemptive pardon on Monday. His photo was removed from the Pentagon shortly after Trump was sworn into office.

Representatives for Milley could not immediately be reached for comment.

Trump also said he was removing former diplomat Brian Hook, his former Iran envoy from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council. Neither Hook nor Lance Bottoms immediately responded to requests for comment.

Hook was appointed by Trump — not Biden — during his first term to the board of the Wilson Center think tank. The center had no comment.

The Trump administration has fired U.S. Coast Guard Commander Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of a branch of the Armed Forces, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

The head of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), first appointed by Trump during his first term in the White House in 2017, was also forced to leave the post on Monday .

Those responsible have asked more than a dozen senior career diplomats to resign. Four senior officials at an agency that operates U.S. immigration courts were also removed.

On Monday, Trump ordered federal workers to return to the office for five days a week and weakened job protections for officials.

Trump allies have said the return-to-work mandate and the elimination of civil servant protections, known as “Schedule F,” will hold the federal bureaucracy accountable.