Trump mocked after marking historic images and posts of Enola Gay for deletion as it has the word ‘Gay’ in it

The Trump administration has been mocked after marking historic images and posts of Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan during the Second World War, for deletion.

Images and posts of the plane are among 26,000 historical images and online posts marked for deletion by Trump, who has waged a far on DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion – since his inauguration in January.

A picture of the Enola Gay was flagged for deletion, apparently just because it has the word “gay” in its description. It has also been noted that several photos from an Army Corps of Engineers project in California that included an engineer whose last name was “Gay” were also marked for purging, as well as biologists’ records about fish because they include information about their genders.

On social media, people mocked Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth for deleting information about the plane because its name has the word “gay” in it.

The order claimed DEI is akin to sex and racial discrimination and inadvertently “undermines leadership, merit and unit cohesion, thereby eroding lethality and force readiness”.

Trump wrote: “As chief executive and commander-in -chief, I am committed to meritocracy and to the elimination of race-based and sex-based discrimination within the armed forces of the United States. No individual or group within our armed forces should be preferred or disadvantaged on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, colour or creed.”

Hegseth had given the military until Wednesday, March 5 to “take all practicable steps” to “remove all DoD news and feature articles, photos, and videos that promote DEI.”