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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Mark Milley: retiring general appears to call Trump ‘wannabe dictator’

A white man wearing a vaulted black cop with gold decorations, and a black suit with many multicolored bars on the left breast, salutes with his right hand outside.
Mark Milley inspects troops during an armed forces farewell tribute in his honor at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Retiring as chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, the army general Mark Milley directed a parting shot at Donald Trump, the president he served but whom he seemed to call a “wannabe dictator”.

Speaking at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, Milley said of the US armed forces: “We don’t take an oath to a country. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion.

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