Early on Tuesday, returning US president Donald Trump publicly fired the Spanish chef José Ramón Andrés Puerta, better known simply as José Andrés, dismissing the 55-year-old from his White House role with a brutal social-media message.

José Andrés, Linda Fagan, among those culled in Trump’s purge of Biden’s White House - Trump said that those who were being dismissed are ‘not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again’

Chef José Andrés has responded to being “fired” as a presidential appointee by President Donald Trump, who first announced the news on his social platform Truth Social.

Trump said Tuesday his administration is in the process of “identifying and removing” more than 1,000 Biden appointees.

Former President Joe Biden greeted President Donald Trump at the White House in advance of Monday’s inauguration with a conciliatory gesture, telling him and first lady Melania Trump: “Welcome home.” Trump ended his first day back in that home by posting a sneering message boasting of how his team was hunting down hundreds of Biden appointees to throw out of office.

The new commander-in-chief fired off the “official notice of dismissal” to four Biden appointees in a midnight social media post, bluntly warning that his team were hunting down even more to throw

He began by dismissing four people: retired Gen. Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; celebrity chef José Andrés from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, from the President’s Export Council.

President Trump announced the firing of four high-profile presidential appointees just after midnight Tuesday, including a top envoy to Iran during his first term, Brian Hook, and retired Gen.

President Donald Trump boasted on social media that world-renowned chef José Andrés was among the appointees he fired on his first day back in office. The only problem with that claim, the chef said Tuesday,

José Andrés is firing back on President Trump’s claim he was “fired” as a presidential appointee, calling on the commander in chief to “put politics and name calling

Trump’s commitment to thousands of changes is in line with his continued pledge to rid the federal government of employees he views as disloyal.