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Opinion: Trump’s DEI assault undermines MLK’s legacy

Photo/Shawn Thew/Pool photo via The Associated Press / President Donald Trump wraps up his speech during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, as former President Joe Biden looks on.
Photo/Shawn Thew/Pool photo via The Associated Press / President Donald Trump wraps up his speech during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, as former President Joe Biden looks on. Photo/Shawn Thew/Pool photo via The Associated Press / President Donald Trump wraps up his speech during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, as former President Joe Biden looks on.

That didn’t take long.

In about the time it takes to say “Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday,” President Donald Trump has launched a nuclear attack on everything the civil rights leader ever stood for.

In the days since Trump was inaugurated last week on the national King holiday, he has put a bullseye on migrants, birthright citizenship and anything associated with the letters DEI.

Can the Constitution be far behind?

“In his honor we will strive together to make his dream a reality,” Trump blasphemed in his inauguration speech. “We will make his dream come true.”