President Trump’s war against diversity, equity and inclusion is reverberating throughout nearly every sector, igniting a civil rights pushback. But his executive orders ending DEI cannot halt the historic pace of national racial diversity.
According to the Census Bureau, the “white only” share of the population is now 58.4 percent. Non-Hispanic whites are projected to fall below 50 percent by 2045.
So the “D” in DEI represents America’s destiny. Although contentious race-based policy debates will continue, diversity is the new America and must be embraced.
The DEI acronym, along with tariffs, ranks among Trump’s most frequent utterances. But due to overuse and clouded meaning, change is afoot to rename DEI, starting with the “Office of Belonging” at the renowned Mayo Clinic.
Therefore, I propose changing DEI to mean “drama, exaggeration and incoherence,” reflecting Trump’s unique communication and governing style.
"Drama" captures the daily, head-splitting, inescapable second Trump term. Every day is Trump Day, as Americans are surrounded by media and compelled to tune in. The president’s insatiable desire to consolidate power, combined with his unconventional need to create drama, leads to constant breaking news that affects every citizen’s life to some degree.
Such intentional “drama by design” could be perceived as a subtle form of domination. Through daily headlines — regardless of whether the news is good or bad, since bad news is spun, justified or rationalized as good — Trump keeps himself prominently on your screen. He “wins the day” by overshadowing or blotting out others.
His need to be on your screen evokes George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984,” written long before screen viewing became a daily ritual. In “1984,” a totalitarian state dominates and controls its people through pervasive surveillance via their “telescreen.” Maintaining a constant screen presence is “Big Brother,” the all-powerful leader who is always watching and enforcing ideological purity throughout the land.
Remarkably, Trump maintains a communication advantage over the fictional Big Brother. He holds a 65 percent stake in Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates Truth Social, his primary communication platform, with a market capitalization of $5 billion. Thus, a drama-loving president who owns and controls his main media dissemination vehicle is rationalized as “Trump being Trump.”
Through Truth Social — an Orwellian sounding name — Trump crafts his version of “truth.” He generates non-stop drama, attacks America’s premier institutions, denigrates his enemies, spews factually incorrect statements, picks fights with celebrities and, most egregiously, conducts official presidential business with no filters or guardrails.
How long will Americans tolerate the pace of Trump’s move-fast-and-break-things presidency? What most affects presidential job approval ratings are the prices for food, gas, cars, homes and consumer goods. Rising costs and shortages driven by uncertainty due to Trump’s tariffs, further complicated by this week’s anti-tariff court ruling, and then blocked on appeal, suggest he could “pay” in the midterms. More damaging is that Trump had promised to combat inflation, the key reason he won in 2024.
The president, well aware of this problem, has instituted an ongoing operational plan to prevent Republicans from losing the House of Representatives. Trump also believes (with good reason) that a Democratic victory could trigger his third impeachment. Therefore, cue the 2026 election drama along with nonstop judicial drama.
Exaggeration is Trump’s default mode of communication. Since facts are often inconvenient, it’s easier to use exaggerated words or phrases to enhance a narrative. Nearly every day, on any issue, Trump straddles the line between embellishment and outright lies, known in Trump-speak as “alternative facts.” His flair for stretching the truth is baked into his always great, best-ever, big, beautiful persona.
Although Trump continuously exaggerates his past, present and future achievements — most notably falsely claiming victory in the 2020 election — he occasionally faces the consequences of his exaggerations. After repeatedly saying, “I will end the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours,” he now claims he was only speaking “in jest.”
Continuously fact-checking Trump’s exaggerations is a thankless task, and why much of what he says goes unchecked and repeated as fact in Trump-friendly media, on X and Truth Social.
Incoherence is Trump’s enemy. His 79th birthday, coming in June, will bring more comparisons to former President Joe Biden’s diminished mental state. And Trump is exhibiting increasingly bewildering behavior. At all hours, he is always on the attack, often posting bizarre Truth Social videos and tweets unbefitting of a president.
Trump’s Memorial Day “scum” remarks and meandering West Point “trophy wife” address, along with his usual “weave” of rambling speech patterns bordering on gibberish, explains why the White House is purging its website of official transcripts. This action evokes another detail from “1984,” in which embarrassing documents are disappeared “down the memory hole.”
This new version of DEI represents our president governing through drama, exaggeration and incoherence, brazenly consolidating power with a “dare you to stop me” attitude.
That invites the question of what the presidency will look like after Trump. Do Americans prefer an all-powerful chief executive who enriches himself and tries to rule with fear and an iron fist? If so, Donald Trump Jr. could be our next president.
Myra Adams is an opinion writer who served on the creative team of two Republican presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008.
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