Trump Puts all Diversity Staff on Leave “Immediately”
Donald Trump has ordered that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave “immediately” and eventually laid off as the new President’s war on woke goes nuclear. The Telegraph has more.
The move follows an executive order the President signed on his first day back in the White House which revoked Lyndon Johnson’s [sic] protection of workers against discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Mr Trump’s order also encourages the private sector to “end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences”.
Heralding a “new golden age” for the US, he has sought to quickly dismantle many Biden-era policies with a flurry of executive orders on immigration, gender and climate.
The President has vowed to fire more than a thousand of his successor’s appointees, including Adml Linda Fagan, whom Joe Biden, the former President, appointed to lead the US Coast Guard in 2022.
Mr Trump sacked Adml Fagan on Tuesday for excessive focus on diversity policies.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directed agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave, take down all public DEI-focused webpages and cancel any DEI-related training by 5pm EST on Wednesday (10pm GMT).
The memo also encouraged employees at federal agencies to inform on those attempting to disguise DEI programmes.
Federal department and agency bosses are required to ask “employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these [DEI] programmes by using coded or imprecise language”.
The memo, issued on Tuesday, included a template email for bosses to send to employees, which asks them to report to OPM if they are “aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5th 2024 (Election Day) to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies”.
The memo added that DEI programmes “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination”.
Federal Government departments had started to take down public webpages associated with diversity, equity and inclusion on Wednesday, in line with the OPM memo and ahead of the 5pm deadline.
The US Treasury, Department for Labour, Agency for International Development and the General Services Administration appeared to have heeded the order by dismantling their DEI landing pages.
Trump providing lots of ideas here for the U.K.’s next Right-wing administration…
Worth reading in full.
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“Trump providing lots of ideas here for the U.K.’s next Right-wing administration…”
Next? When was the last one?
🙂
I prefer to call the hoped-for future government “extreme centre”.
This extreme-left and extreme-right is getting tiresome.
Indeed – I have always considered my political views to be very moderate.
Exactly. Today’s extreme right was known as normal prior to the Blair period!
My thoughts exactly.
The “centre” is a nonsense – exactly what is it a recipe? Take two good measures of Socialism, a dash of free market, a pinch of capitalism, leven with a bit of liberalism – careful to overdo freedom under the Common Law – pat it and prick it, mark it with B and bake in a sustainable, renewables heated oven.
Serving suggestions: serve not too hot, not too cold, just right.
That would be the lady with the handbag …
‘[T]he eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe. ‘
19th Century – Enlightened Tories 1821.
The rot started to set in towards the end of that century particularly as the nascent Labour Party grew and then got elected to Government in the 1920s. It’s been downhill since, accelerating towards terminal decline during the last 30 years.
I can just imagine my reaction to this news if I was still working at the DWP, it would have been like Brexit Day all over again, me walking around with a big smile and telling the Remoaners “suck it up.”
Bliss.
Hahaha! Classic.
And they are already disobeying presidential orders
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1882175553710825745
Hopefully they will be fired, with loss of all benefits and pension, then they might stop refusing orders!
From the screengrab it looks like the Director of the ATF, Steven Dettelbach has gone. I wonder if that’s because he objected or because he got caught renaming the DEI job.
The other (and perhaps most obvious) option is that he had decided to leave his post after the election of D J Trump.
From Wikipedia: On December 23, 2024, Dettelbach announced his resignation effective January 18, 2025.
The bonfire of the absurdities, inanities and insanities is taking off nicely. All sorts of witches, warlocks, bitches and duplicitous bastards’ breeches are getting an overdue toasting.
Yet to feel any detectable warmth across this side of the pond, but give it time.
The link to the financial world is the key I think – those guys will double down on their last month or so of ‘reflection’ now… that’ll make things move here as well I think
“The President has vowed to fire more than a thousand of his successor’s appointees…”
predecessor’s appointees, surely
Both successor and predecessor 😉
How many large US businesses have a UK footprint?
Microsoft, Google, Coca-Cola, Ford, Monelez/Cadbury, Boeing, McDonald’s…
The US HQs are busy cancelling DEI, so presumably UK end will follow.
I’m unfamiliar with US government contracts, but we may assume all DEI demands will be ended too for businesses such as BAE Systems who trade?
Just as Carbon Zero is crumbling, so too wokism.
Outliers will be exposed.
As long as they don’t decide to base their DEI departments in the UK out of reach of US law (they imagine).
Speaking of diversity, can I just say how vile and insensitive Sky News are…Court is adjourned for another half hour so this monster will hopefully not be far off getting his sentence. He’s been using various stalling tactics; refusing to come out of his cell, saying he feels ill and needs a paramedic because he’s not ate in 10 days, general bad behaviour all round, really. And the last I heard he was carried out the court room while the trial continued in his absence, oh, and he was allowed to wear a mask, FFS! It recommences around 2pm;
”Sky News uses their coverage of the sentencing of Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana to recite the mantra “Diversity is our strength”.
This executive of the Liverpool Muslim Council should tell that to Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar, and Bebe King.
Sickening.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1882408970612293694
Agreed. Sickening.
One of the little girls that died sustained 122 stab wounds, another 80+. He was asking how old the youngest victim was and when the police told him ”6 years old” he laughed. There’s no rehabilitating this amount of evil and hate;
”When he was held in police custody, the killer made number of “unsolicited comments” which were recorded on CCTV footage or noted down at the time.
One of them, heard in court earlier, included Rudakubana saying “I’m so glad those kids are dead, it makes me happy”.
The others she read to the court were:
“I don’t care, I’m feeling neutral.”
“It’s a good thing those children are dead.”
“Literally, such a good thing those kids are dead, six-years-old … ”
“I’m so glad the children are dead, so glad,” and “So happy, six-years-old. It’s a good thing they are dead, yeah.”
https://x.com/astor_charlie/status/1882435599514186019
Pure evil and we must have a referendum to introduce capital punishment for this type of crime.
What exactly is a “Right-wing” administration? Do you mean those elected to govern, understanding and respecting free market, capitalism, the sovereignty of the individual, property Rights, our particular British culture of values, morals, standards, manners, heritage, outlook and beliefs, and Common Law Rights, which used to be passed on down the generation, until around 1960 when the debauchery of our culture was started by the anything-goes, Leftie-loonie, hippy, progressive, drugged-up deadbeats and drop-outs?