United States Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and will leave his post at the Pentagon in the coming days. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the departure. An army official told CNN that Driscoll “spoke with the president about the current situation of the army and submitted his resignation.”
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Driscoll’s resignation, known as the “drone guy,” comes after months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “Secretary Driscoll has proven extremely effective in promoting President Trump’s agenda to ‘Make America Strong Again,’ providing exceptional leadership during historic military operations, restoring emphasis on operational readiness and lethality, assisting in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and more,” said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly in a statement.
According to the New York Times, the tension between Hegseth and Driscoll was partly due to the former removing four officers – two men and two women of color – from a promotion list after Driscoll refused to do so. The Washington Post had previously reported that Hegseth feared being fired by Trump and replaced by Driscoll.
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Driscoll and Vice President J. D. Vance were classmates at Yale Law School and have remained close friends since then. The resigning Army Secretary had also developed a personal relationship with Trump, who even tasked him with traveling to Kiev to convince Ukraine to return to the negotiating table with Russia. The plan for that mission, unusual for Driscoll’s role, which took place in November, involved Ukraine making significant concessions to the Kremlin to end the war.
The Driscoll case is just the latest and most sensational “resignation” in the Trump administration’s War Department led by a dominant figure like Hegseth. At the end of April, Navy Secretary John Phelan was abruptly fired after clashing with Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. In the same month, Hegseth dismissed the Army Chief of Staff, General Randy George, without explanation. The previous fall, Phelan’s chief of staff, Jon Harrison, had also left.
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