{"id":171604,"date":"2025-07-12T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171604"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:22:36","slug":"admirals-promotion-pulled-over-drag-queen-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171604","title":{"rendered":"Admiral’s Promotion Pulled Over Drag Queen Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nRear Admiral Michael Donnelly<\/em><\/p>\n

Pentagon Pulls Promotion Of Admiral Who Allowed Drag Shows After Federalist Inquiry<\/h3>\n

By: Jacqueline Annis-Levings<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Defense Department is pulling the recommendation for Rear Admiral Michael Donnelly\u2019s promotion, one week after the DoD refused to answer The Federalist\u2019s inquiries, as the Daily Wire first reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary Hegseth has chosen to withdraw Admiral Donnelly\u2019s nomination to lead [the] 7th fleet. The Secretary is thankful for his continued service and wishes him luck in his next position. The Department will open up nominations for the 7th fleet commander.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donnelly gained infamy for allowing drag shows aboard his ship, the USS Ronald Reagan, during Trump\u2019s first term. The Federalist reached out to the White House to ask why Donnelly was being promoted despite his apparent opposition to Trump\u2019s vision for the military, but did not receive a response. Upon reaching out to the Secretary of Defense\u2019s Office with the same question, the Federalist was referred to Navy Public Affairs, which also did not respond.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to fire woke generals and admirals, rid the military of other woke elements, and make the armed forces strong again. He even featured a video that spliced clips of Full Metal Jacket alongside Admiral Rachel Levine and Navy drag queen \u201cHarpy Daniels\u201d to illustrate the strength of the military under Trump versus wokeness under Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarpy Daniels,\u201d an openly nonbinary sailor and drag performer whose real name is Joshua Kelly, was crowned a Navy digital ambassador in 2022. In 2017 and 2018, he performed drag for Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Department events onboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Donnelly was the ship\u2019s captain at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conservative Review<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nYN2 Joshua Kelley aka “Harpy Danials”<\/em><\/p>\n

This is another cost of DEI in the military- a good officer removed from consideration because of the political climate of the time. Had he refused the MWR’s idea of onboard entertainment he doubtless would have been branded an uninclusive transphobe and pilloried by what passed for DOD “Leadership” at the time. Dammed if you do..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rear Admiral Michael Donnelly Pentagon Pulls Promotion Of Admiral Who Allowed Drag Shows After Federalist Inquiry … Admiral’s Promotion Pulled Over Drag Queen Shows<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":171606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,693],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-navy","category-dei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}