New photo Trump's Pentagon chief Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis will retire in February

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave the administration in early 2019.

'General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February, after having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years,' the president tweeted.

'During Jim’s tenure, tremendous progress has been made, especially with respect to the purchase of new fighting equipment. General Mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations. A new Secretary of Defense will be named shortly. I greatly thank Jim for his service!'

Behind the scenes at the White House, however, news quickly spread that Mattis had written a resignation letter to Trump, saying he would depart so the president could being in someone who more often agreed with him. 

Farewell to arms? Defense Secretary Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis, a former U.S. marine Corps general, will step down from his post atop the Pentagon in February

President Donald Trump reportedly overruled Mattis' objection this week in deciding to withdraw American troops from Syria

Trump made waves at the Pentagon on Wednesday by announcing that he would be pulling America's mid-size military contingent out of Syria.

The decision, reached Tuesday in a small group meeting at the White House, didn't include consultation with Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were in the room. Both reportedly objected. 

Trump declared this week that his administration has won the war against the ISIS terror army, even though the Pentagon has said the group still has 30,000 soldiers in Iraq and Syria.

The president stunned Washington with his announcement, making it on Twitter instead of in an official statement

Some administration officials are bracing for a possible pullout from Afghanistan next. The U.S. has 14,000 troops stationed there. 

According to CNN, no decision has been made but officials are worried Trump might act soon to pull out of a conflict he has long claimed America should never have entered.

The president asked back in 2011, years before he began to flaunt his political ambitions: 'When will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding Afghanistan? We must rebuild our country first.'

Trump has speculated before about how long Mattis might stay in his Cabinet.

Asked in October during a '60 Minutes' interview whether his Defense Department chief might be on his way out, he responded: 'Well, I don't know. He hasn't told me that.'

'I have a very good relationship with him. It could be that he is. I think he's sort of a Democrat, if you want to know the truth,' he said. 

'But General Mattis is a good guy. We get along very well. He may leave. I mean, at some point, everybody leaves. Everybody. People leave. That's Washington.' 

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Hayden Panettiere
Size: 8
Age: 18
Height: 5ft 1in
Weight: 8st

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Hayden says: “I don’t have a model’s body, but I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m OK with what I have.”

Nicollette says: “I don’t like diets – I see it, I eat it! I believe in eating healthily with lots of protein, vegetables and carbs to give you energy.”

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Size: 10-12
Age: 52
Height: 5ft 8in
Weight: 9st 4lb

SATC star Kim swears by gym sessions with Russian kettle bells (traditional cast-iron weights) and the South Beach Diet to give her the body she wants. To avoid overeating, Kim has a radical diet trick – squirting lemon juice on her leftovers – so she won’t carry on picking.

Kim says: “I am no super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.”
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