President Trump is taking full aim at diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, apparently making the calculation that the peak for such initiatives has passed and that they are viewed with growing skepticism by the public.

There is little doubt the Trump base is opposed to DEI, given his voters are customarily set against anything that has a whiff of cultural liberalism or “wokeness.”

But there is a bigger question about whether the extent of Trump’s push against such measures will draw any kind of pushback.

Some polling shows broader support for DEI than might be anticipated for a topic that has become increasingly tugged into political warfare.

Trump reiterated his views on DEI measures during a speech, delivered virtually, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

“My administration has taken action to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense — and these are policies that were absolute nonsense — throughout the government and the private sector,” Trump said.

The actions have come thick and fast in the first few days of his second administration.

Trump issued a sweeping executive order earlier this week contending “illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity.”

Trump added such policies “deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”

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