The 'anti-woke' reckoning rages on.
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump's medication ordered each authorities DEI offices shuttered nary aboriginal than Wednesday astatine 5 pm. The employees of these national departments and agencies are to beryllium enactment connected paid permission with the anticipation that galore volition yet beryllium fto go.
It's each portion of a Trump Team battle connected erstwhile President Joe Biden's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, branded 'forced amerciable and immoral favoritism programs' successful Trump's enforcement bid signed Monday.
White House staffers are present 'in the process of identifying and removing' implicit 1,000 statesmanlike appointees from the Biden administration, who Trump views arsenic obstacles to his DEI reforms and others. And the culling hasn't stopped with lone 'the woke.' Trump insiders accidental this is conscionable the commencement of a renewed ngo to 'drain the swamp.'
Here, the Daily Mail rounds up the apical existent and erstwhile officials fired, forced out, oregon punished by the caller administration...
Admiral Linda Fagan - Fired
Among the archetypal to spell nether the caller authorities was Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, 61, commandant of the Coast Guard, relieved of her duties 2 years into her four-year term.
Fagan was reportedly sacked for her 'excessive focus' connected diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and 'non-mission-critical' efforts, portion neglecting cardinal responsibilities and adjacent allegedly covering up for intersexual predators successful the Coast Guard.
President Donald Trump's medication has ordered each authorities DEI offices beryllium unopen down. The employees of these national departments and agencies are to beryllium enactment connected paid permission with the anticipation that galore volition yet beryllium fto go.
Among the archetypal to spell nether the caller authorities was Admiral Linda Lee Fagan (pictured), 61, commandant of the Coast Guard, relieved of her duties 2 years into her four-year term.
Fagan is the archetypal pistillate to ever pb a U.S. subject service. Praised during her 2022 Senate confirmation for inspiring, 'generations of American women to strive to service astatine the highest level successful the Armed Force,' Fagan leaves nether a cloud.
In June 2024, she was admonished by a bipartisan chorus of senators for her mishandling of an probe into intersexual assaults and misconduct astatine the Coast Guard Academy from the precocious 1980s done until 2006.
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal accused her of fostering a heavy motivation rot' and 'culture of concealment' successful the Coast Guard that prioritized, 'cronyism implicit accountability, soundlessness implicit survivors.'
50 Ex-Intel Officials – Punished
Trump signed an enforcement bid Monday to portion entree to delicate authorities accusation for much than 4 twelve erstwhile quality officials, who signed a missive suggesting Hunter Biden's infamous 'Laptop From Hell' was Russian propaganda.
In October 2020, reports archetypal emerged that Hunter had abandoned respective devices astatine a Delaware machine repair shop. The hard drives contained impervious of his drug-addled debauchery, grounds of inappropriate overseas concern connections and more.
The letter's signatories, including ex-Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and ex-Obama CIA Director John Brennan, wrote that the laptop's contents had 'all the classical earmarks of a Russian accusation operation.'
Amid hysteria implicit imaginable Russian interference successful the 2020 predetermination and reported FBI warnings, Facebook and different societal media platforms censored reporting connected the Hunter Biden laptop. A 2022 canvass showed that 67 percent of adults judge the quality assemblage misled them astir the provenance of the laptop.
Trump signed an enforcement bid to portion entree to delicate authorities accusation for much than 4 twelve erstwhile quality officials, who signed a missive suggesting Hunter Biden's infamous 'Laptop From Hell' was Russian propaganda. (Pictured: Hunter Biden).
General Mark Milley – Fired
Next connected the chopping block: General Mark Milley erstwhile president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Within 2 hours of Trump taking bureau connected Monday, the White House reportedly ordered the Pentagon to region Milley's authoritative representation from its walls.
Milley, 66, had served connected President Biden's National Infrastructure Advisory Council, which advises the main enforcement connected hazard to captious nationalist networks and systems, similar energy grids.
Ironically, it was Trump who nominated Milley to pb the Joint Chiefs successful 2019. But successful the aftermath of the constabulary execution of George Floyd successful 2020, Milley controversially divided with then-President Trump to decry 'manifestations oregon symbols of racism, bias oregon discrimination' successful the military.
Against Trump's wishes, Milley projected changing the names of US subject bases associated with Confederate officers. Milley besides defended the teaching of captious contention mentation (which has been criticized for casting achromatic radical arsenic oppressors and achromatic arsenic victims) astatine West Point Military Academy.
The last nail successful the coffin for Milley came successful September 2021, erstwhile it emerged, that helium had communicated with his Chinese subject counterpart successful the aftermath of the Jan 6 riots to reassure them that the 'American authorities is stable' and was not readying to invade China.
Trump claimed helium wasn't informed of the telephone and the breach of protocol was 'so egregious that, successful times gone by, the punishment would person been DEATH.'
Next connected the chopping block: General Mark Milley erstwhile president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (pictured).
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms - Fired
Trump claimed connected Tuesday to person sacked erstwhile Atlanta politician Keisha Lance Bottoms from her relation connected the President's Export Council, which advises the White House connected planetary trade, but Bottoms, 55, said she bushed the president to the punch.
'A time precocious and a dollar short…' Bottoms posted connected Instgram connected Tuesday. 'My resignation from the President's Export Council was submitted January 4, effectual yesterday. You can't occurrence idiosyncratic who has already resigned.'
Perhaps, she work the penning connected the wall. Bottoms was 1 of the nation's astir vocal DEI advocates among metropolis leaders, who erstwhile described Trump arsenic 'a madman successful the White House.'
She established Atlanta's first-ever Mayor's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and erstwhile declared 'equity is astatine the halfway of our Administration's imaginativeness and priorities' and that Atlanta's economical improvement beryllium 'facilitated done the lens of equality for each Atlantans.'
Bottoms was harshly criticized for a COVID-era transgression question successful the metropolis that saw homicides spike 58 percent successful 2020. Democratic governmental opponents accused her of spending excessively overmuch clip focused connected nationalist governmental aspirations and not metropolis issues.
Bottoms decided not to tally for re-election arsenic politician successful 2021 and was helpfully talented a relation successful the Biden medication arsenic elder advisor and manager of the White House Office of Public Engagement, from June 2022 to February 2023, earlier she was past appointed to the Export Council successful July 2023.
Trump claimed to person sacked erstwhile Atlanta politician Keisha Lance Bottoms (pictured) from her relation connected the President's Export Council, which advises the White House connected planetary trade, but Bottoms, 55, said she bushed the president to the punch.
Transgender troops - Barred
On Monday, Trump rescinded 78 enforcement actions implemented by Biden. Among them was the bid which was signed successful 2021.
The Biden-era measurement allowed transgender individuals to service openly successful the US military. Today, determination are an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 transgender work members.
On the run trail, Trump vowed to reinstate a prohibition connected transgender troops that helium signed during his archetypal term.
The president besides said that nether his medication the national authorities volition lone formally admit 2 genders: antheral and female.
It's unclear what each the implications of that determination volition be, but it's expected to interaction the quality of the national authorities to allocate taxpayers monies to alleged 'transgender care' attraction and surgeries.
Chef José Andrés - Quit
Celebrity cook José Andrés had served arsenic co-chair of the President's Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition for 2 years aft helium was appointed by Biden to pb the radical successful March 2022.
Trump and Andrés were erstwhile friendly, but the brace fell retired aft Trump announced his 2016 statesmanlike tally successful a code saying that immoderate amerciable immigrants are, 'bringing drugs [into the United States]. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.'
In retaliation, Andrés pulled retired of woody to physique a edifice successful 1 of Trump's buildings. Trump sued Andrés for $10 cardinal claiming breach of declaration and Andrés counter-sued for $8 million, sparking a two-year ineligible battle. They settled the lawsuit successful 2017 for undisclosed terms.
Andrés besides pointed retired that helium had discontinue his presumption earlier Trump fired him aboriginal Tuesday, penning connected X: 'I submitted my resignation past week… my 2 twelvemonth word was already up.'
Three weeks ago, Andrés was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Biden.
Celebrity cook José Andrés (pictured) had served arsenic co-chair of the President's Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition for 2 years aft helium was appointed by Biden to pb the radical successful March 2022.
The astir perplexing firing was of Brian Hook (pictured), the erstwhile peculiar envoy for Iran during Trump's archetypal term.
Envoy Brian Hook – Fired
The astir perplexing firing connected Tuesday was of Brian Hook, the erstwhile peculiar envoy for Iran during Trump's archetypal term. Hook was besides reportedly starring Trump's modulation squad successful the State Department.
It's not wholly wide wherefore Trump fired Hook, but successful a Trump Social missive posted Tuesday the president claimed that Hook was 'not aligned with our imaginativeness to Make America Great Again'.
Hook had antecedently backed Trump's the 'maximum pressure' run connected Iran that introduced caller sanctions connected the authorities successful an effort to unit Tehran to extremity its atomic weapons program.
Several individuals adjacent with the incoming nationalist information squad told Daily Mail that they bash not recognize wherefore Hook was targeted.