Trump evicts highest-ranking woman in the military from her home on short notice after her ouster over obsession with DEI policies

The Trump medication gave the erstwhile highest-ranking pistillate successful the subject conscionable 3 hours to permission her location pursuing her ouster implicit her enactment of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

President Trump fired Coast Guard commandant, Admiral Linda L. Fagan, almost instantly aft helium took bureau connected January 20 - leaving her to observe the news  portion waiting to instrumentality a photograph with Trump astatine the Commander successful Chief shot that night.

Still, Fagan continued to unrecorded astatine her government-funded location connected Joint Base Anacostia Bolling until she was abruptly evicted connected Tuesday, NBC News reports. 

'It's petty and it's personal,' a person of Fagan's claimed. 

Coast Guard leaders had initially fixed the four-star admiral a 60-day waiver to find caller housing. 

But connected Tuesday, Homeland Security officials told acting commandant, Kevin Lundy, that she needed to vacate due to the fact that the president wants her retired of the quarters.

Lundy past reportedly informed Fagan astatine 2pm connected Tuesday that she lone had 3 hours to get out. 

'It's a truly unusual powerfulness play,' Fagan's person said. 

Shortly aft that, Fagan's squad reportedly received a telephone from aides to Sean Plankey, a Department of Homeland Security elder advisor and retired Coast Guard officer, instructing her to permission the location unlocked truthful the interior could beryllium photographed.

But Fagan pushed backmost connected DHS' efforts to instrumentality photos.

'I bash not authorize them to travel into my house, whether I'm determination oregon not,' the admiral reportedly told different Coast Guard official.

Lunday past relayed that connection backmost to Plankey's team, noting that immoderate effort to entree the location would magnitude to trespassing, sources acquainted with the eviction said.

Yet Fagan did determine to permission the location 'with galore - possibly each - of her idiosyncratic items and household goods inactive there,' a erstwhile US subject authoritative said.

She past reportedly spent the nighttime with friends.

US Transportation Command is present liable for moving each of her idiosyncratic effects retired of the house, and a DHS authoritative claimed she was fixed a antithetic spot to stay.

That official, however, was incapable to ascertain whether the directive came consecutive from President Trump oregon whether his sanction had been utilized without his knowledge.  

Still, the unidentified authoritative said the eviction bid made sense.

'She was terminated with origin 2 weeks agone today, and she was inactive surviving successful those admiral quarters,' helium said.

In the Department of Homeland Security's connection announcing Fagan's termination, acting Secretary Benjamine C. Huffman touted her 'long and illustrious career' arsenic it thanked 'her for her service.'

But the section aboriginal revealed successful a connection that Fagan was removed from her presumption due to the fact that of 'leadership deficiencies, operational failures and inability to beforehand the strategical objectives of the U.S. Coast Guard' including a nonaccomplishment to unafraid the borderline and halt drugs from entering the United States.

The connection besides accused Fagan of failing to enlistee and clasp unit and had an 'excessive focus' connected DEI programs.

She had adjacent antecedently stated: 'Diversity was decidedly not determination erstwhile I entered into the service...

'The crushed it's captious is due to the fact that divers enactment teams outperform, homogenous teams,' Fagan told Military Families Magazine successful 2023. 'They're conscionable stronger, much resilient, person amended perspectives and deeper spot of thought.' 

Biden nominated Fagan arsenic Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard successful April 2022, arsenic her supporters hailed her arsenic the archetypal pistillate admiral successful a presumption of enactment of 1 of the equipped forces branches.