Posted on 05/09/2025 5:00:58 AM PDT by Phoenix8
Hayden's firing comes as President Trump has been purging federal officials deemed to have gone against his agenda
Democratic leaders erupted late Thursday after it was reported that President Trump had abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
Hayden was notified of her firing in an email late Thursday from the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, according to an email seen by The Associated Press.
"Carla," the email reportedly began. "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."
Nominated by former President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2016, Hayden, whose term was set to expire next year, was the first woman and the first African American in the role. Advocates praised her tenure for helping to modernize the Library and make it more accessible with initiatives in rural communities and online.
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Indeed it’s a great cover up act for an agenda.
The deMS-13s are displaying their hypocrisy in vivid colors.
The Librarian of Congress used to be solely appointed by the President and they served until death or retirement. In 2015 Obama, in cahoots with Harry ‘Exercise Machine’ Reid, decided to put a 10 year term limit on the position. The then current librarian was fired and Obama appointed his own DEI hire Carla Hayden. Reid’s senate happily confirmed she/her.
She should be lucky she lasted 9 1/2 of her 10 years.
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The real woke books were starting to show up at the bookstore when she was there several years ago. She had some good ways of hiding them in plain sight.
She was in a very liberal area and some idiot “moms” would actually come in looking to indoctrinate their little children. It killed her to have to get them those books.
It was tempered with stories of moms asking their kids if they wanted to go to the park and they would say “No, I want to go to the bookstore and get a new book from #######.
I have no perspective on Hayden per se — nor do most people including most of us here — but there is a right way and a wrong way to fire someone. And that goes double for a high profile firing, as this will be.
First, you don’t do it by email. The appropriate person should have called her in and had a hopefully civil conversation, presenting some reasons why it is time for a change.
Secondly, you give some reasons. Whether these are made public or kept private can vary with the circumstances. If she’s being fired for cause, say so and be specific. If it’s nothing personal but is simply a purge of everyone fireable who was appointed by a democrat because elections have consequences, say so — and make it clear that it’s not personal.
In the best case, have a specific, reasonably detailed change agenda and explain that you are seeking someone better suited to carry it out. Ideally you would already have a candidate lined up. “We’re changing strategic direction, and we want a change agent to execute the plan. Thank you for your service, but you are too tied to the status quo we are trying to uproot.”
Hayden is not a simple political appointee. She was appointed by Obama, but she was appointed to an office with a fixed term of service, and she was duly confirmed by the Senate. I do not know how the precedents stack up here, but this was a change in the Librarian of Congress position effected during the Obama years, and perhaps that’s the hook on which to hang the firing: “Obama and the democrats on the Hill politicized the position (over Republican objection?), and if that’s the case, we’re establishing the ‘turnabout is fair play’ rule. Perhaps we should reconsider what was done back then, but the democrats politicized this job, and as long as that’s the case, it has to work both ways.”
I’m fine with doing this for any and all of the above reasons, but I’m not fine with a peremptory firing without cause, or doing it by email rather than in person. This is a high ranking position. Absent some outrage, do it decently. This approach simply opens Trump up to unnecessary criticism.
I have no idea what the private conversations might have been, but there was probably a lot to be said for simply letting her term expire and replacing her at that time — or at least before the 2026 election to ensure that Republicans still hold the Senate. Ideally it would be done in a way that reinforces the presumption that Trump’s appointee will be able to serve out his or her full ten year term. But that aside, there is no reason to give the dems ammo by doing this carelessly and tactlessly. No need to make the first black female LOC a martyr. There are more important battles to fight. No need to create media sideshows.
“My experience with libraries in my career was the same, that they became woke and politically biased left. I found Librarians were almost universally democrats and usually far left ones from my somewhat limited experience (especially after 2000 or so).”
Even more than that, in the earlier days of the Internet, librarians fought tooth-and-nail for kids to have access to PORNOGRAPHY in our libraries. Today, they invite DRAG QUEENS to our libraries.
I’d be thrilled to see them ALL shut down and today’s librarians told to “learn to code”.
Thx for the usual heinous Obama bgrnd: In 2015, in cahoots with Dem
honcho Harry Reid, Obama arbitrarily put a 10 year term limit on the position.
The then-current librarian was fired. Obama sucked-up, appointing
DEI box-checker Carla Hayden. Reid’s senate happily confirmed her.
The facts of the matter are.....she’s Black
Dems have become the HR Department for the Beltway bureaucrats. Pretty comical, really. And one thing to remember, if you are wanting to see HR, you’re in a lose-lose situation.
You forgot, Trump's way, "Get outta here, YOU'RE FIRED.
I love it when he does something that pisses off the demonRATs for no apparent reason {but he knows why}.
BTW, your idea of calling some one in and "having a conversation" is pure bullshit, getting fired is tough, there is NO right way nor wrong way to do it.
Why does anyone celebrate the “ first black” anything like it’s the special Olympics? I didn’t need to know color or sex. Just that she was fired.
Love it, fire all of these woke deep state plants.
“What’s my problem? Punks like you, that’s my problem.”
Discarding the classics - goes hand in hand with destroying statues and monuments to erase our country’s history. Much like the Bolshevik movement did. Remove the history, replace it with a lie, and then use that lie to overthrow a country.
Congratulations on yet another first! The first black woman to be fired from this position.
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There are bad and less bad ways to fire people. I’ve seen plenty of people get fired. I’ve never seen it done by email. If it’s a mass firing because of some major reorganization, it would be different, but this is a one-off involving the top position at a major institution. Corporate boards don’t fire CEO’s this way. Neither do university trustees. Corporate CEO’s don’t fire members of their senior executive teams this way.
Yes, “Get outta here, YOU’RE FIRED” is Trump’s way. That’s part of Trump’s problem. At this point, I don’t see why any A-lister would leave a significant executive job, take a huge pay cut, and go to work for Trump when part of the job would be getting up early and checking twitter each morning to see if you still had a job. Maybe Trump doesn’t want A-listers. In fact, I don’t think he does; he wants people who are totally dependent on him and who will blindly obey.
Elon Musk can probably talk back to him, but Musk was a special, essentially unofficial appointment to an advisory position; he came aboard with a specific and short period of service in mind, and he was on his way back out the door the moment he arrived. Musk could buy and sell Trump for chump change. Trump respects that, but I don’t think he would want Musk in his cabinet long term.
Phfft.
I have bought some great books when the library clears their shelves. A friend bought, “History of the Great War, North and South” for a buck. It had been donated from a small private collection of a man in town. It had been signed by Governor Blair of Michigan. The staff wanted the book back, and Dave said, nothing doing - you’ll just sell it next year.
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