Who is Keisha Lance Bottoms and why was she fired by Donald Trump?

KEISHA Lance Bottoms has been fixed her marching orders by President Donald Trump.

Removing Biden-appointed officials from authorities is portion of a massive shake-up connected time 1 of his 2nd term — here's everything we cognize astir wherefore she was fired.

Who is Keisha Lance Bottoms?

Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American attorney, person and governmental commentator who served arsenic the 60th politician of Atlanta, Georgia, from 2018 to 2022.

Born successful Atlanta connected January 18, 1970, she is the girl of R&B singer-songwriter Major Lance.

Keisha is joined to Derek W. Bottoms, whom she met backmost successful 1991 astatine Georgia State University College of Law during their freshman year.

Three years later, they tied to knot astatine Atlanta’s Ben Hill United Methodist Church.

They stock 4 children unneurotic — Lincoln, Lennox, Langston and Lance — each of whom they adopted.

Keisha has a divers inheritance successful nationalist service, having worked successful each 3 branches of Atlanta's authorities arsenic a judge, metropolis assembly subordinate and politician — a unsocial accomplishment successful the city's history.

Throughout her career, she has been recognized for her enactment and committedness to nationalist service.

Keisha has received galore accolades, including being named the 2020 Georgian of the Year by Georgia Trend Magazine, ass good arsenic 1 of Glamour Magazine's Women of the Year.

National prominence

Keisha gained nationalist attraction during her tenure arsenic mayor, peculiarly for her enactment during the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests pursuing the murder of George Floyd.

She was appointed co-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

Keisha aboriginal served arsenic Joe Biden's Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement.

Post-mayoral career

She chose not to tally for re-election arsenic politician successful 2021, completing her word successful January 2022.

In February 2022, the erstwhile Atlanta politician announced connected her X/Twitter relationship that she would beryllium joining CNN arsenic a governmental commentator.

After leaving office, she joined the Biden medication arsenic elder advisor and manager of the White House Office of Public Engagement, serving from June 2022 to February 2023.

Keisha was appointed to the President's Export Council (PEC) by former President Biden connected July 14, 2023.

The PEC is the main nationalist advisory committee connected planetary commercialized successful the United States.

'YOU'RE FIRED'

On January 21, 2025, freshly inaugurated President Donald Trump announced the dismissal of 4 elder officials appointed by his predecessor, including Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Trump made the announcement via his societal media level Truth Social, writing: "Our archetypal time successful the White House is not implicit yet!

"My Presidential Personnel Office is actively successful the process of identifying and removing implicit a 1000 Presidential Appointees from the erstwhile Administration, who are not aligned with our imaginativeness to Make America Great Again.

The connection besides served arsenic a announcement of dismissal for the 4 officials, with Trump hinting that helium was conscionable getting started connected a overmuch bigger shake-up of the national administration.

"Let this service arsenic Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with galore more, coming soon: Jose Andres from the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council — YOU’RE FIRED!"