General Mattis Out President Trump Says via Twitter

President Trump announced via Twitter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will be retiring at the end of February.

….equipment. General Mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations. A new Secretary of Defense will be named shortly. I greatly thank Jim for his service!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018

Mattis joins several other members of President Trump’s cabinet that have announced their departure including Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Kyle Griffin via Twitter posted a list of names that have departed Trump’s administration since he was sworn into office in January of 2017.

Top Trump Departures
Yates
Flynn
Walsh
Comey
Dubke
Shaub
McFarland
Corralo
Spicer
Priebus
Mooch
Bannon
Gorka
Icahn
Price
Powell
Manigault
Dearborn
McCabe
Porter
Raffel
Hicks
Cohn
Tillerson
McEntee
McMaster
Shulkin
Anton
Bossert
Pruitt
Short
Haley
Sessions
Kelly
Ayers
Zinke
Mattis
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 20, 2018

In his letter of resignation to the President, Mattis writes, “Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis has resigned. Here’s the letter: pic.twitter.com/e2PulyXpXZ
— Elizabeth McLaughlin (@Elizabeth_McLau) December 20, 2018

CNBC News has a copy of Mattis’s full letter to President Trump

Mattis’s departure comes just a day after President Trump announced via Twitter, that he was pulling 2,000 ground troops out of Syria, a move that seemed to blindside D.C..

General Mattis Out President Trump Says via Twitter

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