Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of “Woke” Generals. He Can.

A chief campaign promise from President-elect Donald Trump — which has also been echoed by his secretary of defense pick Pete Hegseth — centers on getting rid of military generals who they deem as too “woke.”

“I would fire them. You can’t have woke military,” Trump said in a Fox News interview in June summing up his views.

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“The president has unilateral authority to fire general officers,” says Katherine Kuzminski, the director of the military, veterans, and society program at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank specializing in national security. Under the wide-ranging powers presidents are given by the Constitution as the country’s commander-in-chief, they can remove generals at will over a loss of confidence in their leadership.

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