{"id":48673,"date":"2026-04-23T06:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48673"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:57:28","slug":"pentagon-fires-navy-secretary-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48673","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Fires Navy Secretary &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Pentagon Fires Navy Secretary<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Pentagon Fires Navy Secretary<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired on Wednesday after months of infighting with senior Pentagon leaders. He championed a major investment in new ships, including a \u201cTrump-class\u201d battleship.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">The future Trump class battleship, the U.S.S. Defiant, will be the largest, deadliest, and most versatile and best- looking warship anywhere on the world\u2019s oceans. John Phelan is one of the most successful businessmen in the country. He\u2019s taking probably the largest salary cut in history, but he wanted to do it. He wants to rebuild our Navy. And you needed that kind of a brain to do it properly.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired on Wednesday after months of infighting with senior Pentagon leaders. He championed a major investment in new ships, including a \u201cTrump-class\u201d battleship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n<p>April 23, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Pentagon Fires Navy Secretary transcript Back transcript Pentagon Fires Navy Secretary Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired on Wednesday after months of infighting with senior Pentagon leaders. He championed a major investment in new ships, including a \u201cTrump-class\u201d battleship. The future Trump class battleship, the U.S.S. Defiant, will be the largest, deadliest,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5412,10147,1230,2412,1862,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-48673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-fires","9":"tag-navy","10":"tag-pentagon","11":"tag-secretary","12":"tag-times","13":"tag-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}