Welcome to Trump’s Version of DEI: Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance

by | Jun 6, 2025 | Opinions & Commentary

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina.” Original black and white negative by John Vachon. Taken April, 1938, Halifax, North Carolina, United States. Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Welcome to Trump’s Version of DEI: Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance

by | Jun 6, 2025 | Opinions & Commentary

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina.” Original black and white negative by John Vachon. Taken April, 1938, Halifax, North Carolina, United States. Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Trump and his fascist squad want to export his version of DEI to the world and are giving new meaning, volume and magnitude to the concept of the "Ugly American."

Under Trump, the United States no longer exports Democracy and its values of inclusion, tolerance and equality. He has other things in mind and these are all diametrically opposed to anything related to American values.

Trump’s staff haven’t been just trying to force American companies and agencies to abandon their practices of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for their staff and customers. They have been exporting this idiocy to other countries and companies internationally as a threat against their participation in the US market.

Like any other wannabe dictator, Trump and his little crew of fascists have world domination through trade in mind. His completely warped and illegal use of tariffs is just part of this psychodrama.

Imagine you are a company in let’s say France. You sell food related products from Provence and enjoy a lively trade with specialty markets in America. Trump’s attitude is that of you must adopt and demonstrate his DEI values of Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance to qualify to continue your business here. Basically, he wants everyone doing business with “his” country to have the same disgusting attitudes toward their fellow man that he exhibits.

Like criminals, bigots really like to surround themselves with people who think the same way they do, who hate, exclude and discriminate the way they do. And now that Trump considers himself the most powerful man in the world, why shouldn’t he make this required thinking. He has the power, he thinks. But what he thinks is power and what it actually consists of could not be more divergent.

Real power as an executive comes from aligned purposes between the organization being run, those involved in running it and those who are effected by that organization’s operations and functions. For the United States, those purposes and functions are outlined in the Constitution and the Amendments to it—whether Trump and his people like them or not. The rights delineated in the Constitution have actually evolved over centuries as mankind in general has fought against those few who assumed it was their right to rule other men—especially through false contrivances like the “divine right of kings.”

Trump, his backers and sycophants seek to convert this to the “divine right of capital” where he who holds the most money rules—and everyone else becomes varying degrees of serf and peasant. But to accomplish that the one thing these folks fear the most is aligned and unified opposition. This is why every utterance from Trump and Company is in the direction of his version of DEI: Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance.

Make no mistake. These warped DEI values are not new. At one time they were the foundation of wealth in America, especially in the slave-holding South. Whenever Trump and his people talk about restoring American “traditional values” this is what is really being pushed. Discrimination: if you are not white, you are screwed. Exclusion: If you aren’t a part of their criminal club and willing to pay through the nose to be a member, you’re on the outs. If you aren’t a far-right “quote the Bible to justify your crimes and hatreds” Christian, you’re a target.

This is now what Trump and his fascist squad want to export to the world. They are giving new meaning, volume and magnitude to the concept of the “Ugly American.”

Marty Kassowitz

Marty Kassowitz

Marty Kassowitz is co-founder of Factkeepers. As founder of Interest Factory and View360, he brings more than 30 years experience in effective online communications, social media management, and platform development to the site. He is a writer, designer, editor and long time observer of the ill-logic demonstrated by too many members of the species known as Mankind. After a long history of somewhat private commentary on a subject he totally hates: politics, Marty was encouraged to build this site and put up his own analyses as well as curate relevant content from other sources.

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