"My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today," Milley said in a statement to USA Today provided by a spokesperson.

Six years after Team Trump wanted the USS John McCain “out of sight,” a painting of Trump’s former joint chiefs’ chairman had to be put out of sight, too.

The portrait of Milley hung in an ornate hallway that is dedicated to the history of the Joint Chiefs and displays 19 other paintings of all other prior chairmen going back to Gen. Omar Bradley.

Gen. Mark Milley, the now-retired former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commented on the pardon he received in Biden's final hours in office.

Pentagon officials on Monday removed a new portrait of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley within a couple of hours of Trump’s inauguration, an official said. The portrait,

President Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Gen. Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021.

Former President Biden’s preemptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will give the retired military official a shield against any action that ...

Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Biden also issued pardons for Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ...

Trump has often criticized his former top general, whose portrait was taken down at the Pentagon just after the new administration took office.

The Pentagon pulled down a portrait of retired US Army General and frequent Donald Trump critic Mark Milley just hours after Trump’s Monday inauguration in Washington, DC, witnesses told Reuters.

Trump is charging ahead with establishing a new order for his second term with a sweeping purge of over 1,000 Biden administration appointees.