Another Woke Industry Is Coming to a Screeching Halt in the Age of Trump

It's a pretty sure bet that the years of the Biden administration will go down in history as some of the worst for America. Besides having a president who was mentally incapacitated, a massive influx of illegal immigrants, and a lagging economy, it will also be known for some of the most ridiculous social practices ever. At least for a while, the concept of being "woke" turned Americans into frightened wussies too afraid to communicate with each other in any meaningful way. But now, as Donald Trump ushers in the golden age of America, another silly element of woke is hitting the bricks.

Corporate DEI is in decline:

New job postings for DEI-related roles plunged far below their peak and even pre-pandemic levels.https://t.co/TOpROyp4jx pic.twitter.com/m7mEh8qPPb
— Consumers' Research (@ConsumersFirst) October 20, 2025

Jobs in the once sought-after corporate field of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are slowly going the way of mood rings and the pet rock. As of September of this year, job postings for DEI positions have plummeted nearly 50 percent from pre-pandemic levels to about 1,500. That's compared to 2022 levels, when DEI-related jobs quadrupled to around 10,000 DEI job postings. When Trump returned to the White House in January, those jobs were only about six percent above 2019 levels.

At the beginning of his second term, Trump made it clear that he would be ending DEI practices in the workplace and among the federal workforce. In one of his first acts, he signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “enforce our long-standing civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.” That executive order has been far-reaching. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has used the discontinuation of DEI practices when approving various mergers. Financial regulators have also cut back on so-called environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations, which appeared to push a left-wing agenda on private companies, another woke policy that was championed by the Biden administration.

Personally, im happy DEI is rapidly dying.
It put really bad people in jobs they couldn’t do.

What happened to plain and simple equality?
Where race was not on the job app?
Where one got a job on merit, and company fit?
— Mitch (@Mitch17472831) October 18, 2025

DEI is fading away so fast that not only are DEI positions disappearing, but listing a DEI-related position on your resume may be the kiss of death when it comes to future corporate employment. Many of those people are scrubbing their resumes of DEI positions or looking to other career paths altogether. Thirty-eight percent of those who left DEI positions relocated somewhere else within the same company and took positions that were not DEI-related. But over half, 55 percent, took non-DEI positions with another employer. Just seven percent of DEI employees took another DEI position with another employer.

But as is often the case, left-wing-inspired lunacy like DEI doesn't entirely go away; it gets rebranded as something else. In many cases, DEI becomes human resources (HR). Among those who once held DEI positions, 16 percent went into HR operations, another 7.9 percent went into education program coordinator positions, 7.1 percent went into public affairs officer roles, and seven percent landed in academic research. From DEI to academic research? Sounds about right...

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote in a 2007 opinion, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Americans are tired of being put into boxes and categories. When it comes to college admissions or getting a job, all of us, regardless of what we look like and who we are, want to be judged on our merits and our talents.

But beware if you get called into the HR office, the remnants of DEI may not go quietly.

Every company is now shedding all the DEI jobs they were being held hostage with.
— mitch (@wukillabee17) October 17, 2025

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