“I heard an interview with Trump recently where he said he appointed Milley out of spite. The generals he had in the White House advised against Milley and Trump just wanted to go against them. He laughed about the whole thing.”
Not a very good reason for appointing someone to arguably the most important position in the military. Just for spite. And the nation suffers for it.
I did a search and absolutely nothing comes up where Trump said that. I believe he’s BS’ing.