WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump threatened to fire top military leaders who might disagree with him at a rare meeting with hundreds of top generals and admirals , as his defense secretary accused the Pentagon of suffering from weakness and "woke" decay.

The president told a packed meeting of top military commanders in Quantico, Virginia, "If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you just feel nice and loose, ok?"

With Trump as his backstop, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the country's military elite they had gone soft and that new reforms would weed political correctness from the world's most powerful armed forces.

Hegseth, a former Fox News host, railed against "decay" at the Defense Departmen

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