One of Trump’s flurry of lunatic-right executive orders was the repeal of a anti-discrimination order issued by LBJ:

President Trump issued a sweeping executive order Tuesday night revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in federal government.

Why it matters: This takes the current anti-DEI activism on diversity, equity and inclusion to a new level — abolishing decades of government standards on diversity and equal opportunity, and seeking to crack down on the same in the private sector.

Zoom out: Trump’s order revokes one that President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965, more than two years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

• LBJ’s order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training and other employment practices.
• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity “based on race, color, religion, and national origin.”
• The order came more than a year after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and just months after he signed the Voting Rights Act following violent attacks on voting rights advocates in Selma, Ala.

The intrigue: The reversal comes after five GOP presidents—including Trump during his first term—kept the Johnson executive order in place, while others expanded it through amendments.

The very, very obvious scam here is to use the term “DEI” to make it seem like Trump is ending the distribution of dumb Tema Okun TED talks rather than attacking longstanding core principles of antidiscrimination:

He knows what he's doing.

[image or embed]— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM

By the way, this is actual news: this is Trump's "DEI" czar admitting that his actual project is to undo the 1960s civil rights laws.— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Shelby County was just one of the amuse-bouches in a very long tasting menu.

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