Chef José Andrés has responded to being “fired” as a presidential appointee by President Donald Trump, who first announced the news on his social platform Truth Social.

Celebrity chef José Andrés, who has longstanding ties to the DC area, got the last laugh on Donald Trump after being "ousted" from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. During his flurry of appointments,

Trump boasted on Truth Social that he had ‘fired’ Biden appointee Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, but the humanitarian chef said he had submitted

José Andrés, Linda Fagan, among those culled in Trump’s purge of Biden’s White House - Trump said that those who were being dismissed are ‘not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again’

He began by dismissing four people: retired Gen. Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; celebrity chef José Andrés from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, from the President’s Export Council.

The new commander-in-chief fired off the “official notice of dismissal” to four Biden appointees in a midnight social media post, bluntly warning that his team were hunting down even more to throw

President Trump announced the firing of four high-profile presidential appointees just after midnight Tuesday, including a top envoy to Iran during his first term, Brian Hook, and retired Gen.

US President Donald Trump fired chef Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition after he was seen with Trump's alleged