Veteran Threatened with Eviction Sues to Wear Trump Hat at Veterans Home
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Class action challenges government censorship of political slogans at federal facility
Johnny Fuselier v. Armed Forces Retirement Home
GULFPORT, Miss. – August 26, 2025 – Johnny Fuselier, a Vietnam veteran and retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, filed a class-action lawsuit today against the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport after officials threatened to evict him for defying the home’s ban on political slogans. Fuselier, a longtime supporter of President Trump, wants the freedom to wear a Trump hat and other political apparel at the federally run facility.
Fuselier is represented by American Dream Legal, a new Mississippi-based public interest law firm that provides free legal representation to individuals when government obstructs their pursuit of the American Dream.
“It is troubling that any Americans’ constitutional rights could be violated so flagrantly,” said Aaron Rice, Fuselier’s attorney and CEO of American Dream Legal. “Denying those rights to the very men and women who took up arms to protect them is indefensible. This ban doesn’t just violate the Constitution. It makes a mockery of it.”
“I don’t understand why we can’t exercise the same rights that every other American can—especially in our own home,” Johnny Fuselier said. “We’ve repeatedly asked them to change this policy, but they refuse to do it.”
Fuselier retired from the Navy in 1979 after 20 years of service. His class-action lawsuit seeks to represent 494 paying veterans and their spouses residing at AFRH Gulfport. He also asked a federal court to block the political-slogan ban while the case proceeds.
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