Under Trump, the acronym DEI — short for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — has mutated (like everything the Orange Haired Fiend thinks and touches) into a grotesque form that not even the most out there horror movie would touch. The language of MAGA has code-switched DEI into words that no longer represent a universal desire for pluralism or justice. This new deformed obscenity defines everything these DJT sycophants love, cherish, and trample upon: Dummies, Expletives, and Ideologues.
It has everything that makes the MAGA-tude not so great: non-diversity in thought and weaponize incompetence.
It is there in cabinet secretaries who mistake policy for performance art, to communications nose-cones who view facts as an optional ruched accessory. These are the only true winners (and biggest losers) of this DJT-directed The Apprentice-like reality competition. The Trump hiring ethos (really a misnomer for these morally and ethically challenged individuals) is less a function of competency than staying within the performance metrics required to entertain King Trump.
In this kingdom, universal loyalty trumps universal literary, total volume replaces true vision. There are only two requirements for success— a willingness to parrot the grand leader’s complaints in melodramatic tones. And an un-gagging desire to fellate Trump’s ass so deep that he tastes it and relishes it with ketchup, mustard and McD’s secret sauce more than a Big Mac and coke. Be sure to remove his tidy-whiteys before tongue insertion.
You can hear it in the parade of appointees wobbling through Senate and House committee meetings. They know more about every salacious detail of a trending conspiracy theory on Truth Social than they can recall every amendment in the Constitution without getting their numbers mixed up, except the second— the right to bear arms and kill those you do not like, being more important than life, liberty, and all that other nonsense.
These are not misfires or bugs in the Project 2025 code. They are its essential features. This bench runs at its inept best when loyal public servants are replaced with provocateurs, influencers, and graduates of reality TV and Fox News.
The hypocrisy is thick. The critics of DEI, so quick to decry its ills, will gladly substitute the highest standards for the lowest ones. They get what they deserve— a cabinet of buffoons, a bureaucracy of bombast.
The public deserves better. They need leaders who know the system rather than incompetent blowhards who can dominate a news cycle.
What we have now is government by demolition. It blows everything up but refuses to construct something better.
And amid this rubble, the good, decent American can only continue to wonder: What does it mean to serve?
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