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A portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has clashed with President Trump in very public spats, was removed from the Pentagon on Monday.
A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the portrait had been removed, but deferred comment to the White House.
A spokesman for the White House national security council declined to comment on why the portrait was removed.
The portrait, which was just unveiled on January 10, hung in the Joint Chiefs corridor alongside those of other former chairs.
The news of the portraits being removed was first reported by several journalists who uploaded photographs to the X social platform.
Former President Biden, on Monday in his last hours in the Oval Office, issued preventive pardons to Milley and several others. Biden said the pardons were not an admission of guilt but were issued for his service.
The pardons come as Trump vowed on the campaign trail to get revenge on his enemies, with Milley being one of his most prominent foes.
Milley was tapped to lead the joint chiefs by Trump in 2019, but the two clashed over several national security issues. And reports of Milley’s resistance that aired in the media after Trump left office in 2021 have added to the public spat.
Trump once suggested that Milley, who retired from the service in 2023, deserved to be executed, and Milley has called Trump a fascist.
Trump in a speech Monday after his inauguration as the 47th president spoke in Emancipation Hall and denounced Biden’s pardons, calling out Milley by name.
