Former President Joe Biden greeted President Donald Trump at the White House in advance of Monday’s inauguration with a conciliatory gesture, telling him and first lady Melania Trump: “Welcome home.” Trump ended his first day back in that home by posting a sneering message boasting of how his team was hunting down hundreds of Biden appointees to throw out of office.

He began by dismissing four people: retired Gen. Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; celebrity chef José Andrés from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, from the President’s Export Council.

Trump said Tuesday his administration is in the process of “identifying and removing” more than 1,000 Biden appointees.

Trump’s commitment to thousands of changes is in line with his continued pledge to rid the federal government of employees he views as disloyal.

The new commander-in-chief fired off the “official notice of dismissal” to four Biden appointees in a midnight social media post, bluntly warning that his team were hunting down even more to throw

Trump also dismissed Mark Milley, Brian Hook, and Keisha Lance Bottoms. Trump aims to remove over 1,000 appointees from the previous administration to align with his Make America Great Again vision.

including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley. “My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential ...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he plans to remove over 1,000 of former President Joe Biden's appointees from their government positions, and that he had "fired" four individuals immediately,

Celebrity chef José Andrés, who has longstanding ties to the DC area, got the last laugh on Donald Trump after being "ousted" from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. During his flurry of appointments,

DEI focus and border security lapses were listed among the reasons the Coast Guard commandant was fired to kick off the Trump administration.

Trump boasted on Truth Social that he had ‘fired’ Biden appointee Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, but the humanitarian chef said he had submitted