Space Forced Out: Air Force Chief May Be Booted For Space Force Opposition

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President Donald Trump is mulling firing Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson after the midterms due to her opposition to Space Force, a new military operation Trump wants to set up to defend space, according to a Thursday Foreign Policy report.

Trump reportedly sees Wilson as trying to undermine his plan from behind the scenes.

“Some senior officials know how to disagree with [the President] without being disagreeable to him. Heather Wilson hasn’t managed to do that,” an administration official told Foreign Policy. “Her opposition to the Space Force has grated on him and I think he permanently sees her as troublesome and ineffective now.”

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  1. **troublesome and ineffective’*“

    Meaning competent and intelligent.

  2. Donald Trump views someone as “troublesome and ineffective”? Donald Trump?

    I can’t even …

  3. As a human organization funky stuff like this happens in the military all the time. But if she’s transferred or whatever by this stupid man for opposing something this laughably stupid then I hope she can be reinstated and commended when the craziness is over.

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