Trump Says DEI, Civil Rights Policies Hurt White People. Do They?

President Donald Trump alleged in a recent interview that civil rights-era policies aimed at remedying historic patterns of racism resulted in White people being “very badly treated.”

The president said the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which sought to end race-based discrimination and segregation and provide Black Americans with equal access to education and employment, “accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people.”

“People that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job,” Trump told the New York Times. “So it was, it was a reverse discrimination.”

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In another recent escalation, the Trump administration is investigating the diversity initiatives of major companies under the False Claims Act, a federal law the Justice Department uses to take action against contractors that defraud the government, USA TODAY reported.

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Vice President JD Vance and other top officials have urged White men to file race discrimination complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency formed in 1965 under the Civil Rights Act to fight workplace discrimination.

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