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President Donald Trump declared that he was firing Joe Biden appointee and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and she quickly reminded him that she had resigned from her post weeks ago.
On Tuesday (January 21), Trump took to his Truth Social platform to fire Lance Bottoms and several other members of the Biden-Harris administration, including Chef Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Ret. Gen. Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, and former State Department official Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars board.
“You’re Fired!” Trump wrote in an apparent reference to his infamous catchphrase on his reality show, The Apprentice.
Trump tried to explain that the group doesn't align with his “Make America Great Again vision,” however Lance Bottoms reminded the president that it’s impossible to fire someone who has already resigned. The former mayor, who also previously led the White House Office of Public Engagement, gave her response to Trump in an Instagram post.
“A day late and a dollar short … My resignation from the President’s Export Council was submitted January 4, effective yesterday,” Lance Bottoms said in her post. “You can’t fire someone who has already resigned. Of all the things happening in the world, not sure why I’m on Donald Trump’s mind at 1:30 am following his inauguration, but I count it as a badge of honor.”
Lance Bottoms urged Trump to pay attention to other pressing issues, including the wildfires in Los Angeles.
“No matter how you voted, I think we can all agree that targeting me, along with a man who is feeding displaced people in Los Angeles and a decorated military General in the early morning hours via social media is not the best use of time for the President of the United States,” she said.
Since 2022, Lance Bottoms has worked in Washington, D.C., playing a pivotal role in Biden's administration. Lance Bottoms served as the head of the White House Office of Public Engagement before being appointed to the role of principal national advisory committee on international trade in July 2023. She joined Biden's 2024 campaign in June, just weeks before he dropped out of the race and was replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris as the leading Democratic candidate for president.
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