Trump says the fired Navy commander's letter pleading for help for his coronavirus-stricken ship 'looked terrible' and was 'not appropriate'

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President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday he agreed "100 " with the Navy's decision to fire the commander who sent a letter pleading for help with the coronavirus outbreak on his ship.

"I thought it was terrible what he did, to write a letter? I mean, this isn't a class on literature. This is a captain of a massive ship that's nuclear-powered," Trump said.

Navy officials said they fired Capt. Brett Crozier because he bypassed the chain of command by sending the letter, and wasn't careful with who the information was sent to.

Crozier has been hailed in the wake of his firing, with his sailors giving him a raucous send-off and chanting his name as he left the ship in Guam.

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President Donald Trump on Saturday bashed Capt. Brett Crozier, the fired Navy commander who wrote a letter demanding assistance with the coronavirus outbreak on his ship that sickened dozens of sailors.

Trump said he agreed "100 " with the Navy's decision to fire the commander, though he acknowledged he didn't "know much about it."See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hopeSee Also:Trump berates CBS News' Weijia Jiang for her 'nasty tone' after she asked him to clarify Jared Kushner's statements about the national stockpileTrump claims without evidence that Wisconsin's governor wants to move the primary to stop a conservative justice from getting elected. Gov. Evers requested the change because of the coronavirus.The Trump administration stopped funding a pandemic warning program just a few months before the novel coronavirus outbreak

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