PRESIDENT Donald Trump has axed four White House staffers in a brutal public firing via social media – and his administration was quick to remove any trace of the purged appointees.

The new president announced his plans to remove over 1,000 officials from Joe Biden’s administration, including celebrity chef José Andrés and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

He also dismissed former top general Mark Milley and former diplomat Brian Hook.

“My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon,” he wrote, adding, “YOU’RE FIRED!”

Hours before the firings were announced, Trump began to hint at the move by wiping out evidence of the shunned employees.

Milley’s recently revealed portrait was removed without explanation from the Pentagon’s halls. The Pentagon referred The U.S. Sun to the White House when approached for comment about the change.

Trump dropping Andrés doesn’t come as a surprise – the president and the restaurateur have been feuding since 2015.

Two years before his first presidency, Trump wanted Andrés to run the kitchen in a restaurant inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC.

Andrés, who first rose to fame in his home country of Spain through his cooking show Vamos a Cocinar, made plans to open a restaurant called Topo Atrio in the Old Post Office building in 2016.

The celebrity chef had planned a menu for the restaurant and even “traded design ideas” for the restaurant with Ivanka Trump in spring 2015, according to the Washington Post in 2017.

However, plans for the eatery came to a halt after Trump went on a tirade against Mexican immigrants when he launched his presidential bid in June 2015.

The disparaging comments led Andrés to back out of the restaurant’s contract – which then sparked Trump to sue Andrés in August 2015.

Andrés filed a counter-claim and the parties eventually settled the lawsuit in April 2017.

“I am glad that we are able to put this matter behind us and move forward as friends,” Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement at the time, according to CNN.

“Without question, this is a ‘win-win’ for both of our companies.”

Andrés agreed and said, “I am pleased that we were able to resolve our differences and move forward cooperatively, as friends.”

The Trump International Hotel closed in May 2022 and reopened a month later as the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC.

Andrés went on to open the restaurant he originally planned inside the revamped hotel, calling it The Bazaar by José Andrés.

The chef remained an outspoken critic of Trump throughout the years and grew close to Biden, even receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the former president just weeks ago.