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On Jan. 20, President Trump gave an inaugural speech after starting his second term, promising to bring the U.S. into a “golden age” and saying he wanted to be remembered as a “unifier.” After that speech, Trump signed 26 executive orders over the rest of Inauguration Day alone, some of them highly controversial and divisive, and has continued passing new executive orders since then. Some of those orders removed protections for transgender individuals and ended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid expresses grave concern that Trump is doubling down on his campaign promises in a way that leaves marginalized populations less protected while ensuring that only he and his allies remain secure.
The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Donald, you nailed it. You really, really get us … who we are, how we feel, and what matters to us most of all: Making sure that individuals who already suffer from widespread marginalization feel just a little bit less seen in this country — less safe to simply exist as who they are.
Party officials grouped this policy into the so-called “restoring sanity” agenda, with the goals of “defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”
Trump’s executive order, among other things, seeks to reduce access to private spaces for intimate purposes in places like prisons, migrant shelters, and rape centers, to make these spaces less safe for people who likely already don’t feel that way in their day-to-day lives.
Of course it’s all part of Trump’s larger battle against DEI programs that he insists “discriminate” against Americans, and a desire to ensure that the country operates along the lines of a “meritocracy.”
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