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?"

At one point during his address, Trump made a reference to a racial slur while discussing nuclear weapons. “I call it the N-word," he told his audience of mostly stone-faced officers. "There are two N-words and you can’t use either of them.”

With Trump as his backstop, Defense Secretary Pete

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