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President Donald Trump published a proclamation Friday evening declaring February as the month of black history in a more silent announcement than those he published in his first mandate, after weeks of attack on the Diversity, actions and inclusion through the decrees, while an anti-dei wave sweeps the America’s watersheds.
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Key facts
In his proclamation, Trump said that black Americans had been among the “most consecutive leaders” in the United States, appointing Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, conservative economist Thomas Sowell, judge Clarence Thomas and Tiger Woods.
Trump expressed “gratitude to black Americans for everything they have done to bring us at that time” and to advance “the tradition of equality under the law”.
The proclamations of the month in the history of blacks are typical of the presidents, and Trump made one each year throughout his first mandate.
The proclamation of Trump in 2025, however, is notably shorter than those he published for the month of the history of blacks during his first mandate, and he does no explicit mention of slavery, of the Rights Movement civic or the historical legislation of civil rights, which he cited in previous proclamations.
The proclamation also follows reports that the Defense Intelligence Agency pending events and activities related to the month of black history or other observances based on identity, including the month of the Pride and the day of Martin Luther King Jr.
How does Trump proclamation differ from his first mandate?
In his 2017 proclamation, Trump recognized that the black Americans “work and struggle” faced and expressed “the importance of teaching and reflection on African -American history – although as president , he will later continue to teach “the theory of the critical race”, and he demanded the end of “the ideology of discriminatory equity” in a decree this week. In 2018, Trump acknowledged that the “blatant discrimination and fanaticism” of the Americans was confronted and cited the desegration of the soldiers of President Harry Truman. Trump’s proclamation in 2019 opened its doors with an anecdote on slave trade starting in the American colonies in 1619 and recognized that many black American people experienced “segregation, racial prejudices and discrimination”. In 2020, Trump recognized the 1965 voting rights law and “the sustainable heritage of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement”, congratulating the Americans who fought for “the ‘racial equality ”.
How did Trump attacked Dei?
Trump made the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion a cornerstone of the first days of his second term. A few hours after its inauguration, Trump signed an executive decree ordering federal agencies to eliminate the programs and offices, slamming them as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs”. The following week, he published another decree eliminating Dei programs in the military and the Department of Defense and Internal Security, also effectively prohibiting transgender troops in another decree. Trump also carried out interviews with Truth Social and in Press, saying without worrying that the hiring of diversity “could have” played a role in the deadly collision of Washington, DC Airplane and helicopter earlier this week. During a press conference, and in an article on Truth Social, Trump cited the now deleted language of the Federal Aviation Administration website which expressed a commitment to the diversity and hiring of disabled people, although this language existed on the FAA website throughout Trump’s mandate.
Tangent
Trump’s attacks on diversity have accompanied a wave of businesses, notably Target, Amazon, Meta and Walmart, bringing their commitments to Dei. Target announced last week that he would stop participating in surveys on external diversity and would eliminate his program of action and change in racial equity, although he declared that he had made this decision on the Base of “many years of data”. Meta said last month that he had ended the programs intended to increase the hiring of various candidates, including his training programs on actions and inclusion, with Janelle Gale, vice-president of the people of Meta, citing the evolution of “legal and political landscape”.
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