Anti-Trump Post Lands Douglas County Schools Staffer In Hot Water

DOUGLASVILLE, GA — A Douglas County School System employee declined comment Monday when asked if she still had her job after a post trashing supporters of President Donald Trump appeared on her Facebook wall.

Superintendent Trent North told The Douglas County Sentinel that the district was “close to a resolution” regarding her job status, with an investigation into the post likely to conclude by Tuesday.

An Aug. 20 post attributed to Nicole Hayes, a former principal at Chestnut Log Middle School, pulled no punches in disparaging Trump supporters.

“I find it sad that most Trump supports (sic) don’t get it and won’t,” the original post read. “Which is why it really isn’t even worth attempting to hold a conversation with them.”

The post went on to call Trump supporters “racist” and “sexist” and to identify most of them as “uneducated low social economic white people who at best have high school diplomas.” Hayes is Black.

Hayes posted to Facebook the next day that her account had been hacked and that she doesn’t “share the comments and opinions that were posted under my name and likeness.”

The anti-Trump comments led to a social-media backlash and an immediate investigation by the school system, according to the Sentinel.

Hayes, who currently works in the school system’s central office, politely declined comment when reached by a Patch reporter late Monday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the system told the Sentinel that results of the investigation won’t be made public and “would be a confidential conversation between HR and Dr. Hayes.”

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