The View co-host Sunny Hostin declared that President Donald Trump was a “DEI hire” on Tuesday in reaction to the president announcing the end of diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government.
“The one thing I did think about was the hypocrisy of having a man be inaugurated to be president on the same day as we commemorate MLK and that same man saying that he was going to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion,” Hostin said.
“The irony of it!” co-host Joy Behar chimed in.
“Because Martin Luther King not only wanted racial equality, he wanted economic equality. And that is something people tend to miss,” Hostin continued.
Hostin added by citing a quote from the civil rights leader: “It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel just to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift…
