During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump made a bold claim about diversity, equity, and inclusion. “We ended DEI in America,” he said after touting his administration’s record on job creation. 

The remark was an echo of previous claims Trump has made about DEI, which have been critiqued for misrepresenting his legal authority over DEI programs in the private sector. “I’ve ended all of the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across the entire federal government and the private sector, and notified every single government DEI officer that their job has been deleted,” Trump said in a speech last year........

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