Ministry of Defense (Dod) has ordered a direct world break on his social media pages and pauses all the posts on all social media platforms, unless the posts have to do with US military operations and deployment to protect the southern border, Fox News learned.
The command came with CHAPTER APPEARATION OF Donald Trump From the White House and will remain in place until his choice for the Minister of Defense is confirmed and does not direct, otherwise, for Fox News, there are two senior US defense officials.
A temporary break is expected to last several days, while the guidelines are given to every uniform and civilian public relations officer responsible for the website of social media.
All posts on social media should reflect the emphasis only on “warfare and deadlyness,” sources said.
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Peta Hegsetth, candidate President Donald Trump for Defense Minister, arrives at the 60th Inauguration of the President on Monday, January 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The senior defense official said the new administration wants to ensure that “all communications are aligned” with its goals. The break only applies to social media posts. Press reports will continue to be sent to the e -later journalists and published on the DOD website, sources said.
The officers of civilian and military public affairs around the world will soon receive internal guidelines for all posts and reach of social media media, posts from the DOD schools and posts from combat commands on current military operations.
Social media accounts will be extinguished and past content will not be deleted, but new posts will not be allowed until the future Minister of Defense, once confirms, directs, otherwise, the Senior US Defense official explained Fox News.
“The Ministry of Defense reviews its programming of social media to ensure that he is aligned with the priorities of President Trump about willingness, flying and warfare,” a senior US defense official told Fox News in a statement. “This break is not related to content and images in relation to the current Operations of the Border Border Safety, announced yesterday’s acting Defense Minister Robert G. SaSeses.”
According to previous administrations, including the Administration of Biden, the army was criticized for the posts on social media focused on what critics called the priorities of “awakened”.
AND US Army In 2021, he published an animated advertisement for employment that told the story of a military incident with two moms as part of a hiring campaign, a “call”, which presented a variety of stories of five different members of the Service.
“It starts in California with a girl raised by two moms,” the narrator, CPL. Emma Malonelord, she said in the video. “Although I had a rather typical childhood, took a ballet, played violin, also marched for equality. I like to think that I defended freedom from an early age.”
Critics quickly expressed concern about the advertisement undermined confidence in the power of the US army, Fox News Digital reported at the time. Many social media users have released side comparisons to advertisements published by the soldiers of other nations.
“We are so convicted”, Media Research Center Dan Gainor wrote at the time with a well clip.
“The Russians build a military focused on killing people and breaking things up. Obviously we build a military focused on explaining microagressions and the theory of a critical race with Afghan tribes,” John Hawkins shook at the time.
American flags and flags of pride hang from the White House during the celebration of the month of pride on the southern lawn on June 10, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenet)
At the beginning of the month of pride in 2022, Space States Space Force published on X, emphasizing the comments of General Leah Lauderback on the “Queerspace” undercar.
“General Leah Lauderback spoke about how the liter works to change politics, change their minds and create opportunities for LGBTQ+ army members,” the post states.
On the same day, the official American Marines on X shared an illustration of a sea helmet with a rainbow -colored bullets.
“In June, USMC takes #pride in recognizing and honoring the contribution of our LGBTQ service members,” the military branch wrote. “We are still dedicated to encouraging an environment without discrimination and defending the values of treatment equally, with dignity and respect.”
In June 2023, the US Air Force published an illustration of X during the month of Pride, which was a member of the service that welcomed before the Rainbow flag.
The post received almost 6000 comments.
“As an aviation vet, this is annoying to me,” one critic wrote. “How [far] We fell as a proud people. These bulls — should end. “
“Pentagon and today’s common chiefs are national shame and destroy military readiness,” another wrote. “Shameful.”
The US State Department has recently accepted the command of “One Flag of Policy” from Trump’s Administration, which allows only US flag to fly in US buildings at home and abroad, with two notable exceptions, prisoner of war/disappearance in the action emblem and an unjust flag of the prisoner.
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Trump also ordered all diversity, equality and inclusion (Dei) to be closed. All dei federal workers have been placed on paid administrative leave.
Fox News Digital addressed the White House for further comment.
Fox News Digital’s Yael Halon and Stephen Sorace contributed to this story.
