Pete Hegseth says West Point professor who resigned over Trump admin education overhaul ‘will not be missed’

A West Point professor’s resignation implicit acquisition shifts brought, successful part, by the Trump administration, drew a scathing remark from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 

West Point doctrine prof Graham Parsons announced his resignation Thursday, pursuing a 13-year tenure with the academy. Hegseth rapidly took to societal media, voicing his sentiment aft the departure.

“You volition not beryllium missed Professor Parsons,” Hegseth wrote successful effect to Parsons’ resignation.

In a New York Times op-ed, Parson said helium is departing arsenic the academy is rapidly shifting from its acquisition principles, successful portion owed to the Trump administration.

“I volition beryllium resigning aft this semester from my tenured presumption astatine West Point aft 13 years connected the faculty,” said Parsons. “I cannot tolerate these changes, which forestall maine from doing my occupation responsibly. I americium ashamed to beryllium associated with the academy successful its existent form.”

He added: “In a substance of days, the United States Military Academy astatine West Point abandoned its halfway principles. Once a schoolhouse that strove to springiness cadets the broad-based, critical-minded, nonpartisan acquisition they request for careers arsenic Army officers, it was abruptly eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological tastes of the Trump administration.”

Parsons’ disdain correlates to President Donald Trump and Hegseth’s caller enforcement bid and memos prohibiting what module members whitethorn thatch astatine United States subject acquisition institutions.

In his op-ed, helium claimed the results person yielded “a sweeping battle connected the school’s program and the faculty members’ research.”

Upon his departure from the academy, his landing leafage connected the West Point website was removed.