#JohnPhelan is the first service secretary to be forced from the #Defense Dept during this admin, though he is far from the only senior #Pentagon official to be dismissed. Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than two dozen generals & admirals over the past year, including the Army’s chief of staff, Gen Randy George, earlier this month. #Hegseth has also butted heads with the secretary of the #Army, Daniel P. Driscoll, over promotions & a host of other issues.

#MilitaryReadiness

Phelan’s job was to deliver the first of Trump’s #battleships by 2028, an impossible deadline.

On Wednesday, #Trump fired Phelan, who had struggled to come up with a plan to deliver the ships on the nearly impossible timeline that Trump has demanded, senior defense & admin officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

#JohnPhelan #Navy #GovernmentSpending #narcissism #greed

#Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the #Navy, #JohnPhelan: a new class of #battleships.

“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest & by far—100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate & resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-navy-secretary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#JohnPhelan is the first service secretary to be forced from the #Defense Dept during this admin, though he is far from the only senior #Pentagon official to be dismissed. Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than two dozen generals & admirals over the past year, including the Army’s chief of staff, Gen Randy George, earlier this month. #Hegseth has also butted heads with the secretary of the #Army, Daniel P. Driscoll, over promotions & a host of other issues.

#MilitaryReadiness

Phelan’s job was to deliver the first of Trump’s #battleships by 2028, an impossible deadline.

On Wednesday, #Trump fired Phelan, who had struggled to come up with a plan to deliver the ships on the nearly impossible timeline that Trump has demanded, senior defense & admin officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

#JohnPhelan #Navy #GovernmentSpending #narcissism #greed

#Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the #Navy, #JohnPhelan: a new class of #battleships.

“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest & by far—100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate & resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-navy-secretary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share