We’ve heard the tired cliché too many times: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”

Even if tiresome, it’s an apt metaphor for these trying times. The master chef is President Donald Trump, his omelet is an America made great again, and the eggs at risk are those hapless employees whose jobs fall by the wayside in the path of the Trump juggernaut.

Of course, not all broken eggs are transformed into delicious omelets — they can just as easily end up as a mess on the kitchen floor. But the inescapable reality is that Trump proposed sweeping changes in the direction of our nation, the electorate endorsed his proposal, and we cannot reasonably expect him to fulfill his promises without human consequences — i.e., breaking some eggs.

Over Trump’s first month in office, those episodes of aggressive actions and their consequences have cropped up again and again. In each case, we’re met with a cacophony of outrage — some real and some contrived — from those who oppose his heavy-handed methods. That’s no surprise. It’s the world we live in.

Without question, last week’s top outrage was the Trump/Hegseth firing of several key U.S. military top brass — namely, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Charles Brown, and the chief of naval operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti.

As a rule, Americans like to believe that the U.S. military is entirely apolitical. The heads of services — the joint chiefs heading up each military branch and their chairman — require Senate approval and usually serve out their assigned term. Sometimes, those terms are extended, arguably to provide continuity and stability in top leadership.

Trump’s action to precipitously replace several senior leaders has been under fire not just because it bucks tradition but also because it carries the scent of discrimination. JCS Chairman General Brown is only the second black person to serve in that position. Admiral Franchetti is the first female chief of naval operations.

Well, there you have it. What more do we need to convince us that our president is a narcissist, a racist, and a sexist, all rolled into one? When you think about it (and you don’t even have to think about it because the Leftmedia treats it as an undeniable fact), Trump’s action is yet another compelling reinforcement of their Trump-is-Hitler fantasy. Shortly after being elected as head of the German Chancery in 1933, Adolf Hitler fired all of his top military commanders, replacing them with toadies sure to go along with his sinister plans.

But before you lock into that grim explanation, try this alternate view of Trump’s action regarding U.S. military leadership.

As a 2024 presidential candidate, the former president was crystal clear in conveying his intent to revitalize our military and his view that the government’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives, however well-intentioned, had gone too far and had been particularly damaging to our military’s war-fighting capability. He nominated Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, a U.S. Army officer with real-life combat experience who shared that view. Clearly, success in achieving the Trump/Hegseth objective will require wholehearted buy-in from top military leadership.

That buy-in was conspicuously absent among the leadership team in place when Trump took office. General Brown’s predecessor had famously mandated an effort to find and root out extremism — often interpreted as strongly held conservative views — in the U.S. military. (Personally, I’m inclined to think some level of “extremism” in the military can be a good thing, in the sense that there are few challenges in life more extreme than mortal combat.)

General Brown’s predecessor had also been party to the Biden administration policy of expelling from our Armed Forces any individuals who chose not to accept injection with an unproven COVID vaccination. General Brown himself had expressed wholehearted support for Black Lives Matter and its role in the widespread violent protests of 2020. Reportedly, Admiral Franchetti had endorsed Ibram X. Kendi’s very racist How to Be an Antiracist tract.

Both General Brown and Admiral Franchetti are entitled to their personal views on these matters. On the other hand, the president of the United States and the secretary of defense have every reason and right to install military leaders who fully support their top-tier principles for national defense.

For context, I see no fundamental distinction between one elected leader selecting preferred candidates for key positions in his or her administration and that executive’s successor replacing those candidates with individuals better attuned to their agenda. Incidentally, it is a well-established fact that Hitler didn’t just replace his military leaders with whom he disagreed; he had them shot.

So, readers, you decide. Human motivations — even one’s own — can be impossible to unravel. But we elected a president intent on making America great again and better for all of us. That’s Trump’s omelet. So, in my view, we should respect his efforts, help him where we can, and not infer malice in his actions.

Let’s look forward to that omelet. Pass the ketchup, please.