Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn and Charlie Kirk

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

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In a post on his social media platform Truth Social Monday, Trump said he had appointed former national security adviser Michael Flynn to the United States Military Academy’s board of visitors, along with Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas); Maureen Bannon, a West Point alum and daughter of MAGA firebrand Steve Bannon; Medal of Honor recipient David Bellavia; and retired major general Dan Walrath.

Flynn, a retired lieutenant general, served briefly as Trump’s national security adviser during the president’s first term before he resigned in 2017 after reports surfaced that he obfuscated his discussions with Russian officials to then-Vice President Mike Pence. He pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contacts with Russia’s ambassador, though Trump later pardoned him.

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The president also named Alabama GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville, founder of conservative network Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk and former deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, among others, to the Air Force’s board of visitors.

Trump confirmed Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy; former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer; former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas); and the president’s body man Walt Nauta, who was federally indicted alongside the president in the classified documents case, will sit on the Naval Academy’s board of visitors.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/michael-flynn-charlie-kirk-trump-appointments-00234637

[Lovie777]

1. Trying to take over the military...

Their goal is to make it 99% white nationalists.

Whole lot of young white men willing to kill their fellow Americans.

Maybe some young white men but not all

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trashing the finest military academies in the world.

Who benefits and how?

[Solly Mack]

3. Damn

[NotHardly]

4. Michael Flynn... traitor while in office, that Michael Flynn?

[Initech]

5. OMFG!!! Charlie Kirk does not belong anywhere near any position of power.

That man is nobody's friend.

[Tanuki]

7. Indeed... as a junior college dropout who never served a day

in uniform, he has no credentials at all for this position.

[Initech]

8. The fact that this worthless asshole has any power is a national embarrassment.

God, we have got to get that fucking psychopath out of the Oval Office now.

[Karasu]

6. How the fuck is Michael Flynn not in a white padded room at this point?

[artemisia1]

9. Why would a general who once called for secession be allowed near a U.S. Armed Forces Service Academy? /nt

[jeffreyi]

10. The better to train storm troopers with.