This page is part of a resource collection on organizing against the second Trump administration. See also Veterans in Opposition to Trump and The Politicization of the U.S. Military Under the Second Trump Administration.
Image: General Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, warned that former president Donald Trump is “fascist to the core.”
Articles: 2025
January 24. Stephen Losey: Trump tariffs could backfire on military, some experts warn.
February 11. Courtney Kube: Defense Secretary Hegseth booed and heckled by military families protesting DEI push.
February 24. PBS: Retired rear admiral fears Trump replacing military leaders with those ‘loyal to him’.
February 27. AP News: Former defense chiefs call for congressional hearings on Trump’s firing of senior military leaders.
February 27. Lawfare: Trump’s Military Purge Spells Trouble for Democracy and Defense.
March 19. Michael Kunzelman: Judge blocks Trump order banning trans troops from military service.
March 24. Military Times: One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen criticizes Trump’s DEI purge.
April 15. Mohar Chatterjee: Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse.
April 17. Karen Jowers: Military families challenge Trump’s stricter federal voting rules.
May 25. Abigail Hauslohner & Emily Wax-Thibodeaux: Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection.
June 10. Mary Louise Kelly: Retired Marine Corps leader concerned about military deployment in LA.
June 12, Steve Beynon: Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech.
June 16. Frank Langfitt: Military parade and No Kings protests: A split screen of a divided America.
August 12. Aaron Blake: The thing Trump’s generals feared about him could now be arriving.
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