President Trump fired the Obama-appointed Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, who was accused of being the left’s proxy and pushing gender identity on children.
On Thursday, May 8, Hayden received an email from the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, stating that she had been terminated effective immediately.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” reads the email.
Various conservative groups, including the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), had asked Trump to remove Hayden for being a proxy of the left in pushing decadent liberal policies such as gender identity for minors. AAF has also called for the removal of U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter, who works under the supervision of the Librarian of Congress.
Meanwhile, the Librarian of Congress holds significant influence in shaping policy and cultural preservation, positioning her as a powerful tool for advancing the radical left’s agenda, such as gender identity and critical race theory.
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Hayden also has a long history of association with the American Library Association (ALA), which she served as President between 2003 to 2004. ALA is accused of fighting against restricting child access to pornography in libraries and online. Hayden herself was also accused of misleading Congress on the issue.
Celebrated by the left as the first woman and Black person to hold the position, Hayden’s appointment had all the hallmarks of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). According to the AAF, she was also a Biden-Harris crony and a Top Clinton donor.
Celebrating the highly deserved victory, Tom Jones, the president of the AAF, praised President Trump for doing an “admirable and long-needed job cleaning out deep state liberals from the federal government.”
“It is time they show Carla Hayden and Shira Perlmutter the door and return an America First agenda to the nation’s intellectual property regulation,” added Jones.
However, enraged leftists slammed President Trump for removing their proxy and praised the outgoing Librarian of Congress for working with marginalized communities.
“While President Trump wants to ban books and tell Americans what to read – or not to read at all, Dr. Hayden has devoted her career to making reading and the pursuit of knowledge available to everyone,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) in an online statement.
Similarly, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called Hayden’s termination “unjust” and accused Trump of banning books and attempting to “whitewash American history.”
“Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden—the Librarian of Congress—via email. This is disgraceful,” posted Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey.
“Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable,” said Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen, who led the campaign to bring back the alleged MS-13 gangbanger.
While Hayden’s ten-year tenure was due to end in 2026, her immediate removal was necessary to prevent her from entrenching the radical left’s policies at the eleventh hour, which would later prove too difficult to reverse.
