After tapping four generals for top Cabinet positions early in his presidency, President Trump seems to have decided that U.S. military leaders are part of 'the deep state,' as he explained at a recent rally in Florida. While Trump 'boasts of supporting the military, he has come to distrust the generals and admirals who run it,' taking cues instead from Fox News host Pete Hegseth, The New York Times reports. 'As a result, the president finds himself more removed than ever from a disenchanted military command, adding the armed forces to the institutions under his authority that he has feuded...
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