"My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today," Milley said in a statement to USA Today provided by a spokesperson.

The Pentagon pulled down a portrait of retired US Army Gen. and frequent Donald Trump critic Mark Milley just hours after the 47th president’s Monday inauguration in Washington, DC. The portrait of the now-retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a short-lived run in the hallway filled with paintings of Milley’s predecessors — it had only been 10 days before,

The portrait of Milley hung in an ornate hallway that is dedicated to the history of the Joint Chiefs and displays 19 other paintings of all other prior chairmen going back to Gen. Omar Bradley.