Lance Bottoms says she is leaving her time in Washington behind as she looks forward to rejoining Georgia's political world, possibly as governor.
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks out
You’re fired” didn’t quite work on Keisha Lance Bottoms, and she’s letting Donald Trump know that! The former Atlanta
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 his first day in the White House for his second term, President Donald Trump announced he’d be removing more than 1,000 appointees from their positions, all hired under the administration of former Pres.
With his infamous “You’re Fired!” phrase, Trump terminated Lance Bottoms via social media, but the former mayor reminded him she had already resigned.
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.
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
Keisha Lance Bottoms has been dominating headlines amid the ongoing political changes. While she is well-known in the public as an attorney and politician, the spotlight has now shifted to her personal life.
Bottoms spoke after Trump posted to Truth Social, calling her out by name, saying that she and others at the White House were fired. But she says she resigned.
“I said, ‘Oh, he thinks he fired me too from the job that I didn’t get paid for,” Bottoms said about Trump’s post. “I was quite tickled to see one that the Vice President of the United States was thinking about me the day after his inauguration at 1:30 a.m.”