Donald Trump’s inauguration just so happen to fall cruelly and ironically on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2025 and the confluence of such diametrically opposed politics made things weird. Dr. King was all about empowering people and fighting for equality. He wanted marginalized communities to have access to every opportunity and benefit that white men tried to hoard for themselves, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as guaranteed by the constitution. Unfortunately, those white men could not and cannot be trusted to extent that liberty to all people, thus, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs were birthed as a guardrail against bigotry or all kinds.
According a report on NBCNews, one of Donald Trump’s first actions as a newly-sworn in POTUS was to sign an executive order that effectively ends all DEI programs on a federal level.
If that wasn’t heinous enough, this spray-tanned bag of white supremacy signed the order while invoking Dr. King’s ubiquitous “I Have A Dream” speech to justify his culling of “The American Dream” for millions of qualified Americans.
“This order is meant to return to the promise and the hope that was captured by civil rights champions, that one day all Americans can be treated on the basis of their character, not by the color of their skin.”
We have zero expectations of Trump of his basket of deplorable MAGA bootlickers but the continuous and blasphemous use Dr. King’s words by conservatives in an attempt to sanitize their disdain for people of color, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, and anyone else who doesn’t identify as a white man is always infuriating.
Later in the day, Trump would say:
“Martin Luther King Day, and his honor, this will be a great honor, but in his honor we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.”
It’s a shame they missed…
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