President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters at the White House, before leaving for Marine Corps Base Quantico to meet with the hundreds of senior military officers that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summoned, that the gathering was a morale effort, but he also said he would not hesitate to fire leaders he doesn’t like.
“I’m going to be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders. And if I don’t like somebody, I’m going to fire them right on the spot,” the president told reporters.
“We have our real warriors over there,” he added about the Quantico gathering. “And when they’re not good, when we don’t think they’re our warriors, you know what happened? We say, ‘You’re fired. Get out.'”
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