Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

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the official said phelan though did not appear to believe trump was aware of the message and he soon began phoning other white house officials asking if they had heard he had been told to resign and whether they knew if the president was aware of it it was around then that parnell issued the statement the official said at least two white house staffers told phelan the decision was trump's the official said

but Phelan still sought confirmation from the president himself or someone close to him coming to the White House grounds and looking for officials in the Eisenhower Executive Office building with whom he had relationships, asking if they had any information, the official said.

And Trump just has a history of just firing people in a chicken shit way.

Like if you just look back to Trump 1.0, look back to the fact that Kristi Noem

was giving a speech with a DHS podium when it was revealed online that she had been fired.

Josh.

And I think it's interesting that this shows how compromised this president and his structure of leadership is.

Phelan felt like he should be the boss of the military, which shows how inherently everybody in the military is dismissive.

subconsciously and consciously of Hegseth.

He didn't believe the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War for a second.

That's what a laughingstock Pete Hegseth is, that he had to march over to the Eisenhower building to figure out if this was true because Pete Hegseth is a laughingstock publicly and behind closed doors.

And replacing Phelan

is Hung Cao, who believes in the power of witchcraft.

Let's play this clip.

All right, Cal also claimed he was blown up in combat, you just saw the video of him, but never received a Purple Heart, the award given to troops wounded as a direct or indirect result of enemy action.

Pumps, what's your take on that?

Like, it's ridiculous.

Well, and the experts have been dismissed from the table.

There were experts that sat down and said, you cannot invade Iran.