Trump’s clarity and a culture shift led to DEI’s demise

Washington Examiner ^ | January 27, 2025 11:23 am | Tudor Dixon

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Donald Trump kept a major campaign promise this week when he terminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates. With the stroke of a pen, he freed the government from checking imaginary boxes on race, gender, and sexuality and returned to a focus on merit. 

While some bemoan this move, many, including businesses, would argue that good old-fashioned hard work just came back into style. In fact, the death of DEI didn’t start with a presidential executive order. In the private sector, major corporate institutions such as Lowe’s, John Deere, Harley Davidson, Tractor Supply, and Ford Motor Company had already begun dismantling DEI practices in their companies. They weren’t afraid of Trump. They were ready to focus on their employees, customers, and businesses without threats of debanking and public humiliation.

Trump ended the derogatory practice of calling people “DEI hires” on his first day in office. He has made it clear that he does not accept discrimination in hiring. The American dream is possible based on how hard you work, not what you look like. It is what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. meant by judging one by the content of his character, not the color of his skin.

In his inaugural speech, Trump said, “I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do.” He added, “In America, the impossible is what we do best.” American independence, freedom, and ingenuity can ultimately never be thwarted by leftist utopian mandates because they are fantasy not rooted in the real world.

As a woman who has worked in both female-dominated and male-dominated industries, I assure you that forcing unnatural diversity won’t make a workforce or university body great and won’t end discrimination...