Donald's first strike in office was against the U.S. Coast Guard.
On January 21st, on his second day on the job, he fired Coast Guard Commander Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead a service in U.S. history.
The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five military services of the United States. The Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security during peacetime and operates under the leadership of the Navy during wartime.
Linda Fagan has led the Coast Guard since 2022 and has previously served as deputy commander of the service.
Why is Commander Fagan of the U.S. Coast Guard the first person Donald wants to fire?
Because protecting border security is Donald's top priority, and it is also an important issue he repeatedly emphasized after winning the election. The U.S. Coast Guard is affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security and has done little to protect U.S. border security during the Biden administration, which led to the influx of illegal immigrants from the southern border.
In Donald's view, it is precisely because of Fagan's incompetent leadership that the US Coast Guard has become ineffective and useless.
As the first female chief in the history of the US military, Fagan was awarded the rank of general. She was once the pride of the Biden administration's diversity system.
During the Biden administration, the U.S. military not only has its first female military chief, but also the first transgender four-star general in the U.S., Rachel Levine. There are not a few homosexuals and transgender people who hold important positions in the military.
They are all products of the DEI policy implemented by the Democratic government in the US military. The military recruits talents not based on ability, but on the basis of skin color, race and sexual orientation to demonstrate the equality, tolerance and diversity of the Biden administration.
The female commander of the Coast Guard is also a practitioner of DEI policy. Instead of focusing on training troops and ensuring border security, she is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the US Coast Guard.
A high-ranking military general does not study training and operations, but studies the DEI system. It would be strange if Donald didn't fire her after taking office.
In his inauguration speech, Donald made it clear that in order to build a society that does not look at color, race and gender, the only criterion for hiring is based on talent.
Donald quickly appointed Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commander of the Coast Guard.
Gen. Kevin Lunday said: "The U.S. Coast Guard is the world's premier maritime law enforcement agency and is critical to protecting the maritime borders, territorial integrity, and sovereignty of the United States. In accordance with the President's executive order, I have directed my combatant commanders to immediately increase assets - cutters, aircraft, ships and deployable special forces to increase Coast Guard presence and focus.
Working with our colleagues in the Departments of Homeland Security and Department of Defense, we will detect, deter, and interdict illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and other terrorist or hostile activity before they reach our borders. "
On the second day after Donald Trump took office, 1,500 active-duty troops were deployed to the southern border of the United States to support border control.
From this perspective, those who do facts are indeed different from those who play tricks.
It can be expected that after the new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth takes office, the US military will usher in more drastic reforms.
In addition to dismissing the Coast Guard commander, Donald also signed an executive order revoking Executive Order 11246, which established Affirmative Action under Lyndon B. Johnson, and prohibiting all federal contractors, federally funded corporate institutions, and public universities from implementing racial discrimination admissions, including DEI.
In other words, public universities in the United States can no longer admit black and Latino students by lowering their scores in the name of diversity and inclusion, while significantly raising the scores for white and Asian students.
After resolving DEI matters at the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. public universities, Donald began to attack U.S. federal government agencies.
On his second day in office, he ordered all DEI offices in federal government agencies to close by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, and all DEI employees were placed on leave.
The document clearly states that all federal employees in DEI positions need to take paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Subsequently, each government agency is required to formulate a specific "layoff plan" and submit a list of all DEI-related personnel before the 31st. The "layoff plan" must be reported to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) before January 31th, 2025.
Established in 1979, OPM is the primary agency responsible for managing the federal government's civil servants. Its responsibilities include the recruitment, training, benefits, compensation, retirement and other aspects of civil servants, as well as the formulation and implementation of the federal government's human resources policies and plans, with an annual budget of more than US$1 billion.
From the perspective of OPM's responsibilities, it is the executor of DEI within US federal agencies. The OPM is also on the list of abolitions under the DOGE led by Musk. It seems that this time, the OPM is going to “castrate itself” first, and then be dismembered on the spot by Musk.
Act resolutely and do what he says. Donald's work style is "fast" and never long-drawn-out.
From this point of view, DEI has become the primary goal of Donald’s new administration, because only by completely eliminating DEI will the United States return to common sense.
At the beginning of Donald Trump's term, the new US government has launched a full-scale war on DEI.