This page is part of a resource collection on organizing against the second Trump administration.

See also: 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.

January 31.   Leo Shane III: Vets group blasts Trump plane crash comments as ‘shameful.’

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 5.   AP News: Veterans are speaking out on the Trump administration’s plans to cut the VA’s budget.

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 17.   Karen Jowers: Military families challenge Trump’s stricter federal voting rules.

Earlier

Ruby Cramer: Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Trump is “the most dangerous person to this country,” echoing dire warnings of others in national security circles.

Veronica Stracqualursi: The prominent former military leaders who have criticized Trump’s actions over protests.