Hamza Adam 
Following yet another development in the “Signalgate” scandal, John Ullyot, a longtime Donald Trump insider who resigned as a top Pentagon adviser last week, warned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is perliously close to losing control of the Pentagon, if not losing his job outright — but none of this sat well with Donald Trump Jr. who took to X on Monday to declare him excommunicated from MAGA.
“This guy is not America First,” he wrote. “I’ve been hearing for years that he works his a– off to subvert my father’s agenda. That ends today. He’s officially exiled from our movement.”
As some commenters were swift to point out, Ullyot is in fact a longtime Trump loyalist who went to bat for him in bold and controversial ways.
For example, noted Aaron Blake of The Washington Post, “Ullyot in 2018 sought to rein in a VA diversity officer who wanted to condemn the racist violent [protest] in Charlottesville more, because it was at-odds with Trump’s message.” At the time, the president infamously triggered outrage by saying there were “very fine people on both sides” of the neo-Nazi demonstration, although in recent years Trump has tried to deny he ever said this.
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Now, Ullyot — despite his history of sticking by Trump — is warning in a Politico article that Hegseth’s repeated use of Signal group chats to share highly sensitive military plans with people not cleared to learn them, most recently his wife and brother, has thrown top Pentagon leadership into complete disarray.
He said the problem is been exacerbated by his firing top officials from the Pentagon.
“It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon,” wrote Ullyot in Politico. “From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president.” He added that, “President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account. Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer.”