Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

the throes of this illegal unnecessary ridiculous war with iran pete hexeth everybody knows has been on a maniacal firing spree and now he has fired the country's top navy official pop this up

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration effective immediately on behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War.

We are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department of the United States Navy.

We wish him well in his future endeavors.

Under Secretary Hung Kau will be acting Secretary of the Navy.

Josh.

Too bad, so sad, you're out.

All right.

And there's more reporting from Axios on this.

Let's pop this up.

why it matters the ouster of the service's top civilian caught many off guard and adds to the pile of military officials who either abruptly exited or were pushed out of their posts under trump 2.0 phelan didn't understand he wasn't the boss his job is to follow orders given not to follow the orders he thinks should be given a person familiar

with the situation told Axios.

The same person said Phelan and Hegseth did not get along.

And so what's important I think about this is in this New York Times article that covers this, Phelan is a huge Trump mega donor.

And so I don't know what it is other than I have always said these work environments are incredibly toxic.

The way these people are treating the American public, do you think they're saving their best foot forward for each other and for those relationships?

Phelan's like, F you, Hegseth.

I've given, you know, I'm a mega donor.

I can go talk to the boss myself.

And CNN is reporting the following.