Donald Trump dismissed the head of the Library of Congress, Carla Hayden, who had become the first black woman in 2016 to occupy this function until now Apolitic, and when she only had one year of mandate, the White House confirmed this Friday, May 9.
“We estimate that they did not meet the needs of the American people,” said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, during a press conference, citing as reason “inappropriate books for children in the library” and “quite disturbing things he has done in search of Dei.”
The term “Dei” (diversity, equity, inclusion), which in the vocabulary of human resources designates the recruitment objectives of people of racial or sexual minorities, has become one of the scarecrows of American hard law.
A lapidary email directed the day before Carla Hayden and signed by a White House official had told her her dismissal.
“Carla, on behalf of President Trump, writes to inform him that his mission as a librarian in Congress ends with an immediate effect,” said the message.
Democratic senator Martin Heinrich, who had made this email public, deplored the decision of the Republican President. Donald Trump “puts his offensive in the United States libraries at the higher level,” said New Mexico’s elected official in a statement.
Carla Hayden, named in 2016 by Barack Obama
“While President Trump wants to prohibit books and impose on Americans what to read, or not read at all, Dr. Hayden dedicated his career to make reading and search for accessible knowledge for all,” added Martin Heinrich.
For the head of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, “Donald Trump’s unfair decision to send Dr. Hayden back to an email sent by a political scribouillard is a penalty.”
The Congress Library in Washington is the largest library in the world, including almost 26 million books listed. Carla Hayden had been appointed head of this cultural institution of the US capital by Barack Obama in 2016, in the last months of her mandate.
Then he had become the first woman and the first African -American person to occupy this position with an apolitical vocation. His ten -year renewable mandate had to end in 2026.
From his return to the White House on January 20, Donald Trump thanked the managers of the Cultural Institutions of Washington, the vast majority named by their Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In mid -February, after having announced the dismissal of several members of the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center who did not share their “vision for a golden age of the arts and culture,” he had appointed himself at the head of this main concert hall in the capital.
At the end of March, the Republican billionaire had signed an executive decree to recover control of the museum content and the Smithsonian Zoological of Washington, which accuses of leading a “racial ideological indoctrination”.
Source: BFM TV
