On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump wasted no time in doing many things that upset his perpetually outraged critics, and among them was having the official portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley removed from the Pentagon hallway it had been unveiled in not even two weeks prior.
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley’s portrait has been removed from the Pentagon hallway where it was hanging as late as 12:46 pm today, when the earlier photo was taken. The portrait was just unveiled Jan. 12. It is not clear where the portrait was removed to. pic.twitter.com/bWnCh6Yl76
— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) January 20, 2025
Milley, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Trump’s first term in office, had been preemptively pardoned just hours earlier by then-President Joe Biden in what many viewed as a disturbing abuse of his presidential power.
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Trump, of course, has many reasons to despise Milley, as outlined by my colleague Rusty Weiss here, including committing what some have alleged was treason in the last months of Trump’s first term in office.
Milley, as RedState readers will recall, reportedly assured “his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike,” according to a Washington Post recounting of claims made in a 2021 book written by their associate editor, Bob Woodward, and one of their reporters, Robert Costa.
Per that same report, Milley took it to a disturbing new level on one phone call by informing the Chinese general, “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
Milley later admitted to the communications during a tense September 2021 House Armed Services Committee hearing after Joe Biden’s deadly Afghanistan debacle but claimed in so many words that the comments were taken out of context.
Fast forward to the present day, and between the portrait removal (another of which apparently happened Wednesday) and Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth pulling Milley’s security detail and security clearance, so-called “journalists” are pouncing with their hot takes on What It All Means, including the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser:
The pulling down of portraits and forced erasing the past is a reminder—check your 20th century history about what kind of regimes do this stuff… https://t.co/NDRlXPkwlj
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 28, 2025
Vice President JD Vance responded accordingly:
“You can pull down a statue of the father of the nation, but don’t you dare touch the portrait of the guy who couldn’t win wars.”
— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 29, 2025
I should point out for the record that Glasser was a staunch proponent of erasing history by force just a few short years ago:
Thank you @caroranwill, for writing this, a searing essay that should be the definitive word on these Confederate monuments. Take them down now. https://t.co/Daj2rBcGZK
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) June 28, 2020
This you? pic.twitter.com/LDBdOpMFKl
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 29, 2025
Democrats and mainstream mediots not practicing what they preach. Shocking, right?
