For instance, the Pentagon chief is a defender of the U.S. alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), while the president once bashed NATO for being "obsolete" and often scolded member countries for failing to contribute sufficient funds.
The two also disagreed on issues such as banning transgender recruits from the military, canceling the joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises, pulling the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, as well as deploying troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Seen by his supporters as the only remaining source of stability in the Trump administration, Mattis is the latest in a slew of cabinet members who either resigned or were forced to quit within the last two years.
Mattis has widespread support across the political aisle. His stepping down was immediately lamented by incumbent and former national security officials.
"At a time of such political, economic, and geo-strategic turbulence -- both nationally and globally -- are you waiting for a catastrophe to happen before acting? Disaster looms!" John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said of the Republicans in a tweet.
"This is scary. Secretary Mattis has been an island of stability amidst the chaos of the Trump administration," tweeted Mark Warner, a senior Democratic lawmaker from Virginia who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"As we've seen with the president's haphazard approach to Syria, our national defense is too important to be subjected to the president's erratic whims," he wrote.
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