The four military academies affected by Trump’s directive each have a Board of Visitors made up of six appointees from the president, four designated by the Speaker of the House, three from the vice president, a designee (or the chair) from the House Armed Services Committee and a designee (or the chair) from the Senate Armed Services Committee.

President Trump claimed the boards of visitors at four U.S. service academies had been “infiltrated by woke leftist ideologies.”