During his speech at the Mar-a-Lago resort Saturday night, Donald Trump called General Mark Milley a “f**king idiot”.
He made the remark while speaking at the Palm Beach event hosted by conservative organization Turning Point Action.
Trump was discussing the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and slammed Milley for his role in the event.
He recalled saying “I said, the moment we get out, I want every nut, every bolt, every screw… we’re taking everything, we’re taking down the tents”. “They left all the tents. They left everything,” he added.
“Couldn’t they have flown in a couple of hundred pilots and flown the planes back?” he asked.
Trump then recounted talking with Milley. “I’ll never forget Milley saying to me, ‘Sir, sir. It’s cheaper to leave the equipment than to bring it,'” he said. He listed some of the equipment that was left behind, noting “Many of them brand new, literally out of the box”.
“You think it’s cheaper to leave it there so they can have it than it is to fill it up with a half tank of gas and fly it into Pakistan or fly it back to our country?” he recalled asking.
Trump continued “That’s when I realized he was a f**king idiot”, as the crowd laughed.
This is not the first time Trump has criticized Milley. Recently, he called the general a “a complete nut job” who put the U.S. “in a very dangerous position”. He also said Milley is afraid of “upsetting the woke mob” when Milley defended critical race theory.