Now, it's time for the last word with Ali Valshie. Good evening, Ali.

It is convivial. Remember when Fridays used to be like that the last day of the week, kind of took it easy.

Crazy stuff didn't happen on Friday nights. No more, my friend. Yeah. I know. You know,

what's funny is that in the first, in the first Trump term, I used to remember that, like, Fridays was like Times Square 9 a.m. on a Monday.

Yes. And it wasn't like that during the Biden administration. It was a more normal time. And now it's, we're back to the, we're back to the cats.

We're back to breaking news on a Friday night and firings and changings and all sorts of stuff. So you've earned your weekend, my friend. We'll see you Monday. Thank you, Ali. Appreciate it. All right. Well, as we're talking about, for a guy who became

famous on his old fake reality game show for firing people in front of the camera, as President

Donald Trump seems to be more comfortable firing people late on a Friday night when a lot of people

have stopped paying attention to the news.

So tonight, just before 8 p.m. here on the East Coast, Donald Trump announced he was firing

Air Force General CQ Brown, who was serving as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Associated Press notes, the ouster of Brown, only the second black general to serve as

chairman, is sure to send shockwaves

through the Pentagon. His 16 months on the job had been consumed with the war in Ukraine and the

expanded conflict in the Middle East. Trump is nominating the Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Kane,

they call him Raisin Kane, to be the next Joint Chiefs Chairman.

Kane is a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty in the National Guard.

A Pentagon official tells NBC News that Trump didn't do the firing himself.

The defense secretary Pete Higgseth called Brown on Friday evening to inform him of the decision shortly before Trump posted it on social media.

And this week has been full of this kind of chaos, including this afternoon at the White

House when Donald Trump was told, quote, we'll see you in court.

Now, I'm sure he's heard those exact words said to his face during his time as businessman Donald

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