{"id":2052432,"date":"2023-10-02T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-milley-takes-shameless-shot-at-trump-during-retirement-speech\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:46:23","slug":"gen-milley-takes-shameless-shot-at-trump-during-retirement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-milley-takes-shameless-shot-at-trump-during-retirement-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Milley&#8217;s Retirement Speech Takes Aim at Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgen-milley-takes-shameless-shot-at-trump-during-retirement-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2052432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gen. Milley Takes Shameless Shot at Trump During Retirement\u2063 Speech<\/h2>\n<p>Joint Chiefs \u200bof Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley went out like he came in: as a flatter, as a \u2063fawner, as a man blown about by the winds of opinion and without any steady mooring.<\/p>\n<p>Milley, you may recall, was initially appointed to the position by then-President Donald Trump. I remind you merely because, ever since roughly the middle of 2020,\u00a0 the general has been wringing his hands of any involvement with the former president \u2014 and,\u2063 for all intents and purposes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/general-mark-milley-vowed-fight-trump-inside-2020-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sounds as if he were a surrogate<\/a> for President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>It was that way Friday, too, when Milley seemingly implied during his departing remarks that Trump was a \u201cwannabe dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment\u2063 came during what <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/29\/politics\/milley-trump-wannabe-dictator\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> called \u201can impassioned \u2062and\u200d at times furious speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a bitter and pointed swipe that appeared unmistakably targeted at former President Donald Trump, who has in recent days accused Milley of \u2018treason\u2019 and suggested that he should be put to death for his conduct surrounding Trump\u2019s bid in 2021 to remain in office despite losing the presidential election,\u201d CNN noted.<\/p>\n<p>This is, being CNN, a\u2063 shadow of the truth; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/28\/politics\/milley-donald-trump-execution-comment\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Milley\u2019s backchannel communications with China in the aftermath of the events of Jan. 6, 2021, done without the then-president\u2019s knowledge, constituted treason and that the act was \u201cso egregious that, in times\u2064 gone by, the punishment would have\u200c been DEATH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You may note the \u201cin times gone by\u201d\u200c statement, which acknowledges that in no way would Milley ever be \u200dput \u200dto death, nor did he express an intention to. But, like a game of media telephone, all that context got lost as got whispered around in liberal media circles, and within a\u200d week it became that Trump \u2063wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-milley-retires-battalion-will-tasked-trawling-social-media-one-type-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milley<\/a> \u200d executed.<\/p>\n<p>Milley, meanwhile, \u2064left far less wiggle room in terms of interpretation of\u200d his remarks: \u201cWe don\u2019t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,\u201d he said. \u201cWe take an oath to the Constitution \u200band we take \u200can \u200coath to the idea that is America \u2013 and we\u2019re willing to die to protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN:\u2063 Woke Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley appears to slam former President Donald Trump\u2064 in his retirement speech, calling Trump a \u201cwannabe dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milley, who once arguably committed treason by promising China he would alert\u200b them of a\u200c US\u200b attack, also accused Trump of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rl83P12TQn\">pic.twitter.com\/Rl83P12TQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg\u2063 (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1707815641535881514?\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This may have been rousing stuff in the \u200bCNN newsroom, but the whole affair came across a little\u200c more like a Jeb\u2064 Bush \u201cplease clap\u201d moment if you were there:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Milley had \u2063a Jeb! moment today and then he stepped down as\u2064 the top US\u200c general.<\/p>\n<p>Fitting end to his \u200bcareer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1tQNF5dT9\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1tQNF5dT9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1707800941762646030?\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is Milley violating good\u2062 principle by attacking \u2064Trump? He claims he doesn\u2019t take an oath to \u201cdictators.\u201d He also doesn\u2019t take an oath \u200cto the Chinese Communist Party. Yet, lest we not forget, in these\u200c backchannel calls \u2014 again, conducted without \u200cTrump\u2019s knowledge while Trump was still\u2062 president \u2014 Milley promised General Li Zuocheng of the People\u2019s Liberation Army that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disgraced-general-mark-milley-ends-career-awkward-pleading-applause-weak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I\u2019ll call you<\/a>\u201d if there was going to be any attack by the United States on China.<\/p>\n<p>Not that\u2064 there was going \u200cto \u2063 <em>be<\/em> an \u200dattack,\u2063 mind you, but he promised our geopolitical adversary that he\u2019d\u200b inform them of it <em>without our president knowing<\/em>. It cannot be emphasized \u2063enough that, at the very least, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/furious-vet-gets-work-seeing-usmc-officer-kicked-corps-calling-biden-woke-brass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milley<\/a> ought to have resigned his post if he felt \u200dthis call was important enough, because he\u2019d made it clear his first duty was not to the United \u2063States or its Constitution, but instead to \u2063his \u200cconcept of contributing to geopolitical stability during \u2062a turbulent\u200d period.<\/p>\n<p>If he wanted to be his own profile in courage, fine \u2014 but then\u2063 at least have the courage to admit that, by the ultimate betrayal of the chain of command, he had disqualified himself for further service in\u200c his role.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re \u200ctalking about his retirement now, so naturally he\u200d didn\u2019t take that course. Instead, he became the \u2063face of President Joe\u200b Biden\u2019s wokeness-oriented, socially engineered makeover of the U.S. Armed Forces. Perhaps no moment so perfectly crystallized what he meant to the Biden-era military than this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-tucker-blasts-joint-chiefs-chair-not-just-pig-stupid-gen-defends-woke-military-agenda-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nugget of testimony before Congress<\/a> \u2063 regarding \u201cwhite rage\u201d back in June of\u2063 2021:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI want to understand white rage, and I\u2019m\u2064 white,\u201d Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said \u200dwhile testifying before Congress, pushing back on accusations from \u200da Republican congressman that the\u2062 military was becoming too \u201cwoke.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ix4dKxrC2d\">https:\/\/t.co\/ix4dKxrC2d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HkFVB7d6Ur\">pic.twitter.com\/HkFVB7d6Ur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York \u2063Times \u200c(@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1407858535606669317?\">June 24,\u200d 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>No word in his closing \u200cremarks on how close he got to understanding all that \u2063\u201cwhite rage\u201d before \u2062he \u2062stepped down, but maybe we\u2019ll hear \u2062about it in the inevitable memoir he\u2019ll put out further\u200c trashing Trump and anyone in his orbit.\u2063 You know the type of memoir: It\u2019ll inevitably be\u200b titled something like \u201cTough Decisions\u201d \u200cor \u201cDurable Leadership.\u201d It\u2019ll generate a few high-profile interviews on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>As for its\u200c reception among the\u2062 buying public, however, I\u2019m going to guess it\u2019ll be\u200c a \u2062bit more like the tepid response Milley received from the crowd during his final remarks as chair of the Joint Chiefs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>An Urgent Note from\u2063 Our Staff:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Western Journal has been labeled \u201cdangerous\u201d simply because we have a biblical worldview and speak truth about what is happening in America.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2064 refuse to let Big Tech\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-officials-so-out-of-touch-democratic-donors-rolled-their-eyes-at-them-at-recent-meeting\/\" title=\"Biden officials' disconnect made Democratic donors roll their eyes at recent meeting.\">woke\u2063 advertisers dictate<\/a> \u2064the content we share with our community. 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Your\u2064 support means we can continue to expose \u2063false narratives and defend traditional American values.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please stand with us by donating\u2063 today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Thank you for your \u200bsupport!<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u200d post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-milley-takes-shameless-shot-trump-retirement-speech\/\">Gen. Milley \u2063Takes Shameless Shot at Trump During Retirement Speech<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does Gen. Milley&#8217;s retirement \u2063speech demonstrate a lack of professionalism and respect for the office of\u200b the presidency?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ombat Outpost Chosin,\u2063 but in the \u200bcontext of a \u200bretirement\u2063 speech for\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-dem-mocks-critics-of-critical-race-theory-bullies-afraid-snowflakes\/\" title=\"Illinois Dem Mocks Critics Of Critical Race Theory: \u2018Bullies,\u2019 \u2018Afraid,\u2019 \u2018Snowflakes\u2019\">highest-ranking military officer<\/a> in the United States, it \u200cwas \u2064unbecoming, disgraceful, and unprofessional. \u2062Gen. \u200dMilley\u2019s comments were not only\u2062 a shameless shot at former President Trump but \u2062also a clear display of partisan bias and disrespect for the office of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, it is important to\u2062 note that Gen. Milley was appointed to his position \u200bby President Trump. Regardless\u200b of any\u2064 personal\u200d disagreements \u200cor differences in opinion, it is expected that a military officer carries out their duties \u200bwith professionalism and loyalty to the commander-in-chief. Milley\u2019s subsequent distancing from the former president and alignment with\u2064 President Biden \u200craises questions about \u2063his true \u200cloyalties and \u200bintentions.<\/p>\n<p>In his retirement \u2062speech, Milley used the platform\u2064 to take a swipe at Trump, calling him a \u201cwannabe \u2062dictator.\u201d This inflammatory remark not only undermines the principles of respect and civility\u2064 but also ignores the achievements and policies of the previous administration. It is \u200dhighly inappropriate for\u200c a military officer, especially\u200c the chairman\u2064 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\u200c to engage in such political\u200b rhetoric\u200d and to publicly criticize a former president.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Milley\u2019s comments echo the narrative pushed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-wildly-distorts-state-bills-banning-critical-race-theory-claims-republicans-want-to-stop-teaching-slavery-and-racism\/\" title=\"New York Times Wildly Distorts State Bills Banning Critical Race Theory, Claims Republicans Want To Stop Teaching Slavery And Racism\">left-leaning media outlets<\/a> without providing the full context of President Trump\u2019s statements. Trump \u2063did\u200d not call for\u2064 Milley to be \u2062executed; rather, he \u2063highlighted the severity of\u200b Milley\u2019s actions and the potential consequences if they had occurred in a different era.\u200c Milley\u2019s deliberate mischaracterization of Trump\u2019s words only serves to \u2062further \u200cstoke the flames of\u200c division and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u200btop military leader in the \u2064country, Gen. Milley should have demonstrated impartiality and professionalism throughout \u200dhis tenure. Instead, he \u200dhas repeatedly shown a proclivity for engaging in partisan politics and making divisive\u200d statements. This\u2064 type of behavior undermines the trust\u200d and confidence that the American people place in their\u200d military leadership and tarnishes the reputation of the \u200darmed forces.<\/p>\n<p>It is disheartening to witness\u2064 a retiring general depart from \u2062the principles of duty, honor, and country that should guide every military officer. The military&#8217;s role is to defend\u2062 the Constitution and \u200cuphold the values of our great nation, irrespective of personal political beliefs. Gen. Milley&#8217;s comments indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of this fundamental principle.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, \u2064Gen. Mark Milley\u2019s retirement \u2064speech \u2062was a clear demonstration of his\u2062 lack of\u200b professionalism, \u2063impartiality, and respect for the office of \u2064the presidency. His divisive and inflammatory comments not only undermine the principles \u2062of \u2062a nonpartisan military but also contribute to the growing polarization in our society. It\u200d is imperative that \u200cmilitary leaders prioritize their \u200ddedication to \u200dthe \u2064Constitution and refrain from engaging in political rhetoric that undermines the integrity of \u200dthe armed \u200cforces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>since his appointment, Milley has shown a lack of independent judgment, constantly seeking approval and changing his stance to align with popular opinion. It is clear that he lacks a strong moral compass and is easily swayed by external influences. 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