President Donald Trump announced on social media that he has just fired the nation's senior military advisor and named a successor.General Charles Q. Brown Jr., age 62, made history as only the second African American to lead the

President Donald Trump began the weekend by firing top military leaders including Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and ended it by announcing he was appointing right-wing pundit and podcaster Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI.

President Donald Trump fired the top US general on Friday night in a move that had been expected for weeks. Trump called Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. a “fine gentleman” and an “outstanding leader.

A four-minute video appears to have been a turning point for the president and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the ousted Joint Chiefs chairman.

The removal of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top officers has deepened concern among Trump’s critics who fear he intends to impose his politics on the institution.

In his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump did serious damage to America’s soft power by moving to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and defund the National Endowment for Democracy. Now he seems bent on damaging U.S. hard power, too.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he has fired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., and nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as his replacement.