Top US military general Mark Milley apologizes for Trump church photo-op
America’s most senior military officer, Gen Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has publicly apologized for participating in Donald Trump’s photo-op at a famous church in Washington last week, in another sign of tension between the White House and the Pentagon. The event took place moments after troops and police cleared a path for the president and his entourage to walk the short distance to the nearby St John’s church, also known as the Church of the Presidents, by violently ousting peaceful protesters chanting and singing amid ongoing nationwide demonstrations in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd.“I should not have been there,” Milley told the National Defense University in a pre-recorded video commencement address.“My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.
