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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Trump's full scale assault on DEI has begun and it is glorious. Also speaking of dei, a female cop accidentally shoots a civilian with his own gun. A Canadian politician turns the tables on a news anchor who tries to corner him on gender ideology. And the media, as expected, has been fighting back against Trump's border enforcement operation with images of crying illegal immigrants. So far, it's not having the effect that they intended. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wal America's golden age is just getting started. Be here with us for every moment. There's never been a better time to join Daily Wire plus, use code 47Daily now for 47% off your new annual membership. Do you wish that you could have invested in the stock market last year when investors scored the highest profits in decades, but between your mountain of bills and credit card debt, you had nothing left over? Well, it's time to stop letting debt hold you back. 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As the first step towards mass layoffs, the DEI section of every major federal website went offline. The heads of every DEI office in the federal government were rounded up, chained to giant boulders and tossed into the sea. That last part didn't happen, unfortunately, but a man can dream back. In reality, however, the Office of Personnel Management sent out a notice to the head of every federal agency instructing them to ask employees, quote, if they know of any efforts to disguise DEI programs or personnel in the federal government. Employees have 10 days to disclose any disguised DEI programs or personnel that they're aware of. And almost immediately, one of these disguises became pretty apparent. It was visible to anyone who checked out the leadership page of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or atf. And specifically, there was an unusual change to the title of one senior official at the atf. Here's how the Bureau's leadership page looked at the beginning of the week. You can see it there. And as you can see, there's a woman named Lisa T. Boykin who's listed as the Chief Diversity Officer at the atf. Now, why does the ATF need a Chief Diversity officer? What was this person doing every day? Well, who knows? She was collecting a paycheck, at least we know that. And now that's supposed to change. But the only change the ATF actually made was in the meaningless title they gave this person. So sometime in the last 48 hours, the page changed. And here's what the ATF's leadership page looks like now. Now, Lisa Boykin is merely a, quote, senior executive. She's no longer the Chief Diversity officer. Overnight, she has been graced with a much more generic and inconspicuous title. There was no press release about that, about it. There was no explanation. They just changed it. Check back tomorrow. And the ATF will probably put fake glasses and a mustache on Lisa Boykin and claim her name is really Larry Soykin or something. So these DEI activists aren't completely out of ideas, but very soon they will be completely out of the federal government. At least that's the plan. As recently as a few months ago, a purge like this seemed pretty difficult to imagine. And it was particularly hard for people on the left to imagine when we filmed Am I Racist? The DEI activists we spoke to from Robin Diangelo on down were overconfident to the point of absurdity. It's one of the reasons we were able to make the film. People always ask how we managed to get the race hustlers and DEI scammers in the room with us. Well, the answer is that we use their own egos and their false sense of security against them. They just couldn't imagine that anyone would ever challenge them or try to embarrass them, because that's the bubble that they were living in. And now it's safe to say that that bubble has been pretty well popped now. In fact, their entire industry is crashing down, and not just in the government. The executive orders that Donald Trump has signed are broader than that. One of the orders, for example, is entitled Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit Based Opportunity. And this order explicitly applies to DEI in the private sector as well. I Further, order all agencies to enforce our long standing civil rights laws and to combat illegal private sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs and activities. Each agency, agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large nonprofit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of $500 million or more, state and local bar and medical associations, institutions of higher education with endowments over $1 billion. In other words, the federal government is gearing up to launch investigations into private sector entities, whether they're universities or hospitals or corporations that are engaging in discriminatory DEI practices. According to the order that includes any organization that employs, quote, dangerous, demeaning and immoral race and sex based preferences. The order goes on to revoke an executive order signed by President Lyndon Johnson which required that federal contractors and the federal government take affirmative action to boost certain candidates based on race, color, religion and national origin. This has been the law of the land for generations and no Republican president until now has even considered the possibility of ending it. But this time around, the second Trump administration came prepared. It's one of the very first things they got rid of. And the importance of the decision cannot be overstated. I mean, for decades, the requirement that federal contractors practice affirmative action has forced companies to compare their workforce with the demographic composition of the surrounding community. And then they had to alter their hiring practices to try to find more so called minority candidates, regardless of whether those people were the most qualified. And it's led to an enormous amount of fraud and waste and inefficiency. And that's not even getting into how unethical and immoral and unconstitutional it was. But that's all gone now, or at least it's supposed to be. At the federal level, Trump's order forbids the federal government from, quote, allowing or encouraging federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion or national origin. On top of that, all federal agencies have to require every grant recipient to, quote, certify that it does not operate any programs promoting dei that that violate any applicable federal anti discrimination laws. Within 120 days. The attorney General will also outline requirements for colleges and universities concerning their own DEI programs. So this is obviously a sweeping order, one that affects hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending. And it's very bad news for universities like Harvard and other bastions of left wing orthodoxy. It's the kind of order that you'd expect would lead to a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left. And certainly that is happening to some extent, but there's also been kind of an interesting wrinkle amid all of this. And it is early. It's still early. This is all just happening. There might be some amount of shell shock on the left as well. I'm sure that's true. But Chris Ruffo reported something interesting yesterday. He reported this. Tech executives are telling me that Silicon Valley companies will respect President Trump's ban on discriminatory dei. Many feel relieved that they don't have to pretend anymore. Resistance here is basically dead. And I was quoting his source within one of these tech companies. So in other words, according to Rufo's reporting, these executives were, you know, experiencing a kind of Stockholm syndrome for the past several years. They knew that DEI was destructive to their business. They wanted it to go away, but they felt they had no choice but to endorse it because on top of the legal requirements, they didn't want to upset left wing activists and the corporate media. They lacked the spine to stand up for their own business interests and they felt trapped, so they just went along with it. And this may sound like convenient excuse making, but it may sound like, well, the claim is that these people were victims. That's not the case at all. It's not an excuse. But the scenario here sounds very plausible. After all, tech companies care the most about making money. I mean, you don't become a tech billionaire without understanding how to turn a profit and without prioritizing profits. And DEI is obviously and self evidently bad for business because it forces you to hire people who are not qualified for the job. It actually makes perfect sense that these companies would be relieved to be done with it. But it's not an excuse. I mean, if anything, it just makes them look worse. DEI proliferated not because all these companies believed in it, but because they were all cowards who didn't have the gumption to speak out even for the sake of their own economic self preservation. Like it would, it would, it would be better for them. I think it'd make them look better if they actually believed in this stuff and now are having some kind of awakening moment. But the truth is they knew it was nonsense the whole time and they just did it anyway. So it's worth asking whether that response applies to the left more broadly. I mean, one of the most fascinating things about Trump's full scale assault on gender ideology and DEI in government is the relative lack of left wing hysteria over it. Certainly there has been plenty of whining and scolding about it, but, you know, we haven't seen protests in the street or widespread panic. The outrage from my vantage point hasn't quite reached the fever pitch that you would have expected that I expected. I mean, even the media, from what I can tell, seems to be relatively muted by their standards in their reaction. So here, for example, is a decidedly kind of low energy segment from MSNBC the other day. You'd think they'd be grabbing their pitchforks because of the return of fascism in America, but instead, this is what they came up with. Watch.