Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King said she woke up to calls and text messages from fellow soldiers about Trump’s Wednesday morning tweet banning transgender people from serving in the military.

"I felt like I had just gotten fired via tweet," King told CNN on Wednesday.

King, a transgender woman, is one of the potentially 15,000 service members wondering where their job stands after Trump’s comments, according to CNN. She said she plans to keep serving as usual until she’s told otherwise.

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"I think there's some ambiguity in the statement that was made and it's going to take some further development to figure out the intent," she said. "The policy to allow people who are serving openly has been in effect and is going strong. What does this mean for us?"

Trump on Wednesday morning tweeted that "after consultation with my Generals and military experts," he had decided the U.S. government would "not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military."

"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you," he tweeted.

In her interview, King recalled serving in the military prior to former President Obama's 2016 decision to lift the ban on transgender people serving in the military, telling CNN that she felt like she was living a "double life."

In the past year since she was allowed to openly serve as a transgender person, King said she was allowed to act like herself and was able to change her gender marker in Department of Defense files.

"The great thing about being in the military is when we take our oath we take it to our country," she added. "My service is not diminished in any way by what has transpired, and I'm eager to continue proudly serving my country."