Trump Promises Restitution for Victims of DEI Discrimination

President Donald J. Trump has promised to compensate victims of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across the school system.

Trump was addressing issues that bedevil the American school system, which according to the President-elect, spends more than any other in the world but records lackluster results.

In a video released by his team, Trump said he would use an unspecified budget reconciliation measure to have schools involved in DEI programs fined up to the total amount of their endowment. 

Trump promised that a “portion of the seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies, policies that hurt our country so badly.”

“Colleges have gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars from hardworking taxpayers, and now we’re going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions, once and for all,” he added. “We’re going to have real education in America.”

Additionally, President Trump promised to “pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination and schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity.”

Trump also promised to impose taxes on schools that continue with the program that has seen some deserving and hardworking students disenfranchised.

Nonetheless, Trump did not say who were the victims or beneficiaries of the unjust DEI practices. However, DEI discrimination is based on race, sex, and sexual orientation, where individuals are selected based on these factors instead of their qualifications. 

In February 2024, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against Paramount Global, CBS Entertainment, and CBS Studios, on behalf of Mr. Brian Beneker, a white, heterosexual male script coordinator and freelance scriptwriter, for allegedly violating his Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 rights.

The lawsuit alleges that Brian was denied a staff writer position, while lesser qualified either “nonwhite, LGBTQ, or female” individuals were hired instead because he “did not check the right boxes.”

“By May 2022, CBS hired several staff writers without experience who met their DEI qualifications, specifically, women who were black or LGBTQ,” the lawsuit stated.

In another video, Trump promised to scrap the federal Department of Education and send  “all education and education work and needs back to the States,” adding, “We want them to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it.”

“We want federal education dollars to follow the student, rather than propping up a bloated and radical bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. We want to close the federal Department of Education.”

Trump also accused the federal Department of Education of being a money pit that did not give American taxpayers the value of their money.

“You can’t do worse. We spend more money per pupil by three times than any other nation, and yet we’re absolutely at the bottom.”

Other suggestions to improve the American education system outlined in Trump’s list of 10 “key ideas” include teaching children to “love their country, not to hate their country.”