Vice President JD Vance took a shot at a reporter who claimed that the Trump administration’s removing of a portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley from the Pentagon hallway is akin to what dictators do.
Milley, the retired Military normal and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, who on a number of events subverted orders from his Commander-in-Chief, had his portrait faraway from the Pentagon inside two hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
It had been revealed simply 10 days previous to its removing.
Earlier this week, newly minted Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth introduced that Milley’s safety clearance and element have been being stripped whereas officers contemplate issuing a demotion for the final in retirement.
On prime of that, a second portrait of Milley was being eliminated.
This was deeply disturbing to 1 reporter who stated as a lot, however ignored her personal historical past.
Scoop: Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth ‘instantly pulling’ retired Gen. Mark Milley’s private safety element and safety clearance; panel to contemplate demotion in retirement.
A second portrait of Milley to be faraway from the Pentagon, Trump administration officers say.
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) January 28, 2025
Reporter Very Upset About Milley’s Portrait Being Ripped Off The Wall
To start with, why does Mark Milley have so many portraits within the first place? Let’s hope Hegseth alters the Pentagon tradition of handing out participation awards for each little act.
Second, New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser was beside herself over the portraits being eliminated, advising folks to look again at historical past to see what sort of “regimes” do this kind of factor – as in, eradicating homages to public figures.
Can you determine the place that is going?
“The flattening of portraits and compelled erasing the previous is a reminder—verify your twentieth century historical past about what sort of regimes do that stuff,” she wrote on X.
Primarily – ‘You understand who else ripped down portraits of generals? … Hitler!’
The one drawback is, the left has been doing this for years, with the statues of precise American heroes.
The flattening of portraits and compelled erasing the previous is a reminder—verify your twentieth century historical past about what sort of regimes do that stuff… https://t.co/NDRlXPkwlj
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 28, 2025
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Reporter Will get Slapped Again To Actuality
Social media customers have been fast to level out that these attempting to erase the previous have been liberals and their cohorts within the media. Glasser, who’s urging folks to do their analysis, apparently forgot that between 2016 and 2024, they have been closely encouraging Democrats to take away statues of historic figures, together with these of the founding fathers.
They usually fortunately complied with that erasure of historical past. Glasser was one in every of them.
The Federalist’s co-founder, Sean Davis, identified that the New Yorker reporter was herself demanding this type of motion for different figures.
This you? pic.twitter.com/LDBdOpMFKl
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 29, 2025
Apart from followers on X slapping her again to actuality, JD Vance additionally took a jab at Glasser.
“Think about having lived by the final 10 years–the desecration of Washington, Jefferson, Lee, Roosevelt, and even Lincoln–after which drawing the road at…Mark Milley,” he replied.
He added this unbelievable evaluation: “You possibly can pull down a statue of the daddy of the nation, however don’t you dare contact the portrait of the man who couldn’t win wars,” he mocked.
They spent complete summers both voting to take away statues or having their avenue thugs pull them down in blatant acts of vandalism, however taking down a conceit portray of a former normal who now not works on the Pentagon is only a bridge too far.
The true dictators are gone now. That’s why Glasser is upset.
