A Navy commander’s written report to bring notice to a coronavirus outbreak aboard his aircraft carrier “looked terrible,” President Trump said Saturday, as he praised the military leaders who removed the top officer from his post on the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s.

Pentagon officials ousted Capt. Brett Crozier, after he wrote a letter slamming Navy leaders and notifying them of a spike in cases of Covid-19, among sailors on his vessel.

Thomas Modly, the acting Navy Secretary, described Crozier’s firing this week as the “hardest thing that I’ve ever had to do.”

Trump voiced his full-throated  support for Crozier’s removal, but he said, “I didn’t make the decision.”

“The letter was a five-page letter from a captain, and the letter was all over the place,” Trump said. “That’s not appropriate.”

“I thought it was terrible what he did, to write a letter. I mean, this isn’t a class on literature. This is a captain of a massive ship that’s nuclear powered. And he shouldn’t be talking that way in a letter,” Trump said.

The president also ripped Crozier for taking a port call in Da Nang, Vietnam, during an epidemic.

“Perhaps you don’t do that in the middle of a pandemic,” Trump said. “History would say you don’t necessarily stop and let your sailors get off.”

Defense officials defended the Roosevelt’s port call as a reasonable decision made back in early February.

“At that time there were only 16 positive cases in Vietnam, and those were well to the north all isolated in Hanoi,” Adm. Michael Gilday, the chief of naval operations, said in a press briefing on March 24th, calling it “a very risk-informed decision” made by Admiral Philip Davidson, the head of Indo-Pacific Command.

This week, videos showing the remaining crew of the Roosevelt cheering Crozier as he walked down the gangplank in Guam went viral.