Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi

The first lady is a Trump and therefore automatically qualified to do anything her heart desires“We ended DEI in America,” Donald Trump boasted during his State of the Union (SOTU) address on Tuesday.Unlike many things the president said in his excruciatingly long SOTU speech, this was actually half true. The Trump administration’s “war on woke” has pushed a lot of large companies and institutes to retreat from the diversity, equity and inclusion policies they used to pretend to be proud of.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...


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