Donald Trump pledged to make changes to the operations at the nation's military service academies.
The president complained that the four service academies had become politicized against conservative values and announced that he was replacing their boards of visitors, which provide independent advice and recommendations to the White House on morale, discipline, curriculum and other matters related to the educational institutions.
"Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years," Trump posted on Truth Social. "I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!"
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Trump signed an executive order upon retaking office intended to halt diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government and ordered the federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff placed on leave, and the U.S. Military Academy disbanded a dozen clubs devoted to ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality.
It's not clear what specific policies Trump believes been implemented by "leftist ideologues" at the service academies or whom he would appoint to replace the outgoing boards of visitors.