US Navy Secretary John Phelan leaving Trump administration

Trump will bring in Sarah Huckabee Sanders to be the new secretary. She has been on several cruises and knows the oceans.

One of Epstein’s associates. Really under explored by the media just how many Epstein people trump stuffed in his admin— probably best way to keep them all quiet. Wild. 

Apparently Iran is causing more regime changes to the US than the other way around

From Sarah Longwell at the Bulkwark: We’re in the middle of a pretty important naval blockade standoff with a country we’ve threatened to destroy, so it seems like a weird time for the Secretary of the Navy to abruptly depart. And by “weird” I mean, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

John didn’t sign up for donating millions and then having to scream at admirals. He’s got his own millions to think about. Playing Navy was supposed to be fun.

Is he the one that told trump he cant launch nukes?

Undersecretary Hung Cao is succeeding him?!?! Talk about burying the lead, lmao.

Now trump has to find another unqualified rich guy for his cabinet

Sorta not a great look to have the Sec. of the Navy step down in the middle of a blockade

And the USN is "redirecting" Iran-flagged vessels outside of ports in India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. ADMIN47 is going to lose a USN ship because other nations are not going to tolerate having their goods redirected in their territorial waters and insurers will come after the US Government to pay for delayed receipt of goods. This is so FUBAR.

Maybe Erika Kirk could do this. She does have previous experience advising the air force academy

Guys name is literally “Felon” come on man!

Paywalled. I'll guess he had the temerity to point out a blockade is an act of war. Edit: He's a billionaire civilian appointee, not a member of the services, and he got the job for donating to Trump's campaign and hanging around Mar-a-Lago. I suspect now he just was out of his league and genuinely needed to go.

How many cabinet secretarys has he lost since he took office? Like.. this must be a record? 

Not leaving. Left. He was given the choice to resign or be fired, on the spot, immediately. He's gone. (edit: comma)

The guy who was on Epsteins plane in 2006, that Trump appointed to this role in 2024? That John Phelan?

What will the scandal be???

In an administration full of a******, addicts, and crooks, Phelan might look the most like a make a wish kid in all his position-related pictures

I'm sure major command changes in the middle of active hostilities is a good sign.

He's being replaced with a witch hunter Like actually thinks he's a witch hunter

I am sure he’ll be fine being unemployed with his millions and millions of dollars and investments he had even before getting that post.

In a rare credit to the Trump administration, I have to say this was a good decision. Phelan has no line authority. The Navy Secretary's job is to build and maintain the Navy, so disagreements over deployments and/or the nukes wasn't a real issue. Phelan's claim to fame came from a business career completely unrelated to the Navy mission. He probably got the job because he aligned with Trump's "Big Golden Fleet" vision featuring battleships, steam-catapult aircraft carriers, and other holdovers from WW II. The Pentagon and NAVSEA have seen what that history was like and want to move into the future, with electric-drive ships, submarines, increased use of unmanned vehicles, and so on. In other words, a 21st Century Navy. Ukraine is proving that this new vision gets results. Phelan opposed all that. The Navy's science and technology community is literally the best in the world. Their war college up in Newport has been gaming various force architectures for literally centuries. The NAVSEA extended community has literally thousands of highly specialized PhD-level engineers that have spent their entire careers sorting out estoeric problems like how to make silent propellers, rail guns, and hypersonic sea-skimming missiles. For good or bad, they are fully capable of grinding opinionated blowhards like Trump into dust with mountains of white papers and vu-graph presentations. Trump would have to purge the lot of them to get his way, but if he does what he did to the NIH he gets no new navy. They know this, and they know they are right, so he's not getting any traction there. And then there is the shipbuilding industry. The Navy routinely contracts them to build the most complex moving machines ever invented. There are billions of dollars in every contract, so organized crime has at least a century head-start at infiltrating the shipyards. Trump's "new boss on the block" bluster isn't going to phase them in the least. So the shipyards aren't soft targets either. Phelan had no chance. Trump's vision is completely nuts. He's a spoiled brat playing with boats in a giant tub. Pee Wee Herman could have taken Phelan down. And good riddance.

Was it because they wouldn’t give Trump the nuclear codes?

Smart move Mister President. After all, there's nothing important going on right now with the US Nav…oh.

"Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency." — William McRaven, open letter to President Donald Trump, August 16, 2018[50]

This guy was unqualified as f*** so worst case it will be a lateral move

Verlassen die Ratten das sinkende Schiff?

Surprised they didn’t offer Popeye the job

What did he get caught doing???

Wrong Phelan gone, but getting closer.

The definition of Irony: “Hegseth fired the Secretary of the Navy John Phelan because Phelan would not punish Senator Mark Kelly and ignore a federal judge's orders…. The judge ruled that punishing Senator Mark Kelly for: **reminding military officers of their constitutional duty to refuse illegal orders would violate the First Amendment.**” And now, Secretary of the Navy John Phelon is: **reminding a military officer of their constitutional duty to refuse illegal orders as it would violate the constitution!** We stand with you Jon Phelan.

Probably stood up to trump.

This is where the true suck-ups come out of the woodwork and the ones who went along with everything up to this point to save face due to cowardice and/or convenience will flee.