Tweets comparing former President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler are not welcome at the United States Special Operations Command, which reassigned its new diversity chief following the discovery of a tweet of Trump and the Nazi leader side by side following the former president’s Lafayette Square photo-op.
SOCOM’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2021 includes a new office led by a diversity officer. The special ops command based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, called for emphasizing “interconnectedness of matters relating to culture, ethnicity, religion, class, race, and gender” and makes the case that diversity is an “operational imperative” for special operators deployed in covert missions globally. However, the first official to head the office, Richard Torres-Estrada, was quickly reassigned pending an investigation after his anti-Trump tweet was found.
