Portrait of Mark Esper in Pentagon taken down

Published January 29, 2025 3:18pm ET



A portrait of Mark Esper from his time as Secretary of the Army placed in the Pentagon has been removed as of Wednesday.

Within the first weeks of the Trump administration, the Pentagon has removed two portraits of Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and now, one of Esper, who served as Trump’s first secretary of defense.

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