With all the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from the Left, it was hard to miss the fact that Donald Trump issued an executive order that banned the use of DEI and DEI principles in the federal government.
Outstanding.
Donald Trump puts all diversity staff on leave ‘immediately’ https://t.co/goB9WKzwW4
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) January 22, 2025
We all know that orders and laws intended to achieve this goal are regularly ignored at the state level using “one simple trick,” as they say: change the wording, not the actual policies. Many of us were concerned that Trump’s EO would follow the same pattern. After all, it’s not like the people in charge of these programs are gone—they usually get moved to Human Resources or are tucked away in other places within the organization.
Trump knows this and came up with a few simple tricks of his own…
