President Donald Trump boasted on social media that world-renowned chef José Andrés was among the many appointees he fired on his first day again in workplace. The one drawback with that declare, the chef stated Tuesday, is that he’d already give up final week.
Andrés, who served because the co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Health, and Vitamin underneath President Joe Biden, responded after Trump introduced Monday that his administration was eradicating “over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again.” He particularly known as out the chef and humanitarian, telling him: “YOU’RE FIRED!”
I submitted my resignation final week…my 2 yr time period was already up,” Andrés responded Tuesday with shrugging and laughing emojis.
Members of the council, he additionally famous, had been all unpaid volunteers who labored on nonpartisan tasks, together with a “historic partnership between the White House and every major sports league to increase access to sports and health programs for kids.”
“May God give you the wisdom, Mr. President, to put politics and name calling aside,” the Spanish American chef continued, “and instead lift up the everyday people working to bring America together.”
Trump, who’s denounced hundreds of federal staff as members of the “deep state” and already made it simpler to fireplace them, introduced the firing of some different folks in his put up, together with his former Iran envoy Brian Hook from the Wilson Middle suppose tank. The president didn’t acknowledge that he, not Biden, had appointed Hook to the put up throughout his first time period.
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Others he fired in his social media put up embrace Mark Milley from the Nationwide Infrastructure Advisory Council and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from an export council.
