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Another prominent conservative has joined the chorus criticizing the selection of Santa Ono as the University of Florida’s next president. This time, it’s Donald Trump Jr. On Wednesday, Trump called Ono a “woke psycho” in a post on X that urged the Florida Board of Governors to vote against his appointment at their next meeting on Tuesday.
Today, the University of Florida Board of Trustees unanimously chose Dr. Santa J. Ono as the next president of the University of Florida.
‘WTF!’: Donald Trump Jr. slams ‘woke psycho’ Santa Ono, says UF ‘decision makers … lost their minds’
Trump quote-tweeted a Christopher Rufo video where Ono talked about “two-spirit” people and “respecting people’s gender identities and affirming their gender expression” in a “respectful environment.” Rufo, a New College of Florida Trustee, posited that ideology was a threat to Florida remaining the place “where woke goes to die.”
The University of Florida’s board of trustees unanimously approved Santa Ono to become the school’s 14th president on Tuesday after an interview that covered everything from diversity issues to the Gaza protests.
An op-ed published May 16 in The Wall Street Journal by Peter Wood, president of the center-right National Association of Scholars, also criticized the choice of Ono, pointing out he oversaw a vast expansion of DEI during his tenure at the University of Michigan and his prior posts at other universities.