Trump’s Executive Order on Restoring Meritocracy and Equality of Opportunity

[00:00] The media onslaught against the Trump

[00:01] administration is intensifying and on

[00:04] campus there are some people that are

[00:06] getting a little impatient. They say, "I

[00:08] want more wins from President Trump. I

[00:10] want more wins." I'm not that

[00:12] sympathetic to that to be perfectly

[00:13] honest because what President Trump did

[00:15] in even the first week is more than what

[00:18] some presidents have done in four years

[00:20] and it's not even yet been 100 days. the

[00:24] kind of

[00:25] impatient, let's just say

[00:28] attitude doesn't resonate with me. And

[00:30] it's also not rooted at all in if you

[00:33] are watching the daily news cycle. We

[00:35] talked about how yesterday President

[00:37] Trump is trying to do the largest

[00:38] deportation effort in American history.

[00:40] He's being enjoined. We're working

[00:41] through how to solve that. He's trying

[00:44] to solve the Russian Ukrainian war. But

[00:46] we are drill baby drill. The southern

[00:48] border is completely secured. We're

[00:49] going to get a massive tax bill. We have

[00:52] the executive order on no men and female

[00:54] sports. We have the executive order on

[00:55] no chemical castration of

[00:58] children. 11% more voters are saying the

[01:02] United States is on the right track

[01:03] since January. It's big. And just wait

[01:06] until the economy stabilizes. We get our

[01:08] tax bill passed. And there's something

[01:11] that happened yesterday in the Oval

[01:13] Office that received almost zero media

[01:16] coverage. And to be honest, very few

[01:18] people in the conservative movement have

[01:20] been covering this. Not enough people in

[01:23] conservative media have been taking the

[01:25] time to say, "Time out and pause. This

[01:27] is a massive victory." It's an act of

[01:30] courage by President Trump who's now

[01:32] going at the very core. He's going at

[01:35] the life source of

[01:37] DEI. President Trump is going right at

[01:40] the at the baseline. He's going at step

[01:43] one of how we started to see the

[01:45] slipping of

[01:47] excellence, the death of

[01:49] meritocracy, and the elevation of

[01:52] mediocrity. President Trump is

[01:53] addressing root causes. This, of course,

[01:57] is something called desperate impact.

[02:00] President Trump signed an executive

[02:01] order called restoring equality of

[02:03] opportunity and meritocracy. If you do

[02:05] not know about desperate impact, you

[02:07] should take out your pen. You should

[02:09] listen carefully. If you're in the car

[02:10] right now listening to us on the Salem

[02:12] radio network, you're watching on Real

[02:13] America's Voice, you're going to learn

[02:15] something. You're going to learn that

[02:16] there was something that was embedded,

[02:18] encoded into the fibers almost every

[02:20] single one of our laws and our hiring

[02:22] practices that you might not know about.

[02:24] President Trump signed an executive

[02:25] order yesterday repealing two

[02:27] regulations that have existed since LBJ

[02:29] and

[02:30] Nixon. That means Ronald Reagan didn't

[02:32] touch this. George HW Bush didn't touch

[02:34] this. George Bush didn't touch this. And

[02:36] even in the first Trump administration,

[02:38] we didn't get to this. But that's why

[02:40] exile was good to us. That's why those

[02:42] four years not of us not having power,

[02:44] we were able to study, go deeper and

[02:46] say, what is the root cause here? What

[02:48] was the first mistake? What was the

[02:50] original sin? And disperate impact is

[02:52] the original sin of the DEI

[02:55] monstrosity. The government will

[02:57] eliminate the use of enforcement of

[02:58] so-called disperate impact liability.

[03:00] But what is that desperate impact?

[03:02] What's the big deal, Charlie? Come on,

[03:05] show me the real wins. No. No, no, no,

[03:06] no. You should be thanking the Lord

[03:09] about the significance of the

[03:10] profoundity here. It's the sort of thing

[03:11] that few people have heard of, but has

[03:13] completely remade American life over the

[03:15] last 50 years. Desperate impact is a

[03:18] legal doctrine that holds that any rule,

[03:21] any policy or requirement can be held to

[03:24] be illegal discrimination if it has a

[03:27] disperate impact on two different

[03:28] groups. So, for example, in 1971 there

[03:32] was a Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke

[03:34] Power Company. Duke Power was sued

[03:36] because for people to get certain jobs

[03:38] at the company, they required them to

[03:40] either have a high school diploma or

[03:42] pass an aptitude test. Black applicants

[03:45] were less likely to have a diploma. And

[03:47] they didn't they didn't do as well on

[03:48] the aptitude test. The Supreme Court

[03:50] ruled that Duke's job requirements were

[03:53] quote justified were not justified by

[03:55] business necessity and so they were

[03:57] illegally discriminatory and thus the

[04:00] doctrine of disperate impact was born.

[04:02] You pro you could probably guess why

[04:04] this doctrine is so incredibly

[04:06] pernicious. Literally every standard

[04:09] imaginable has created has some sort of

[04:12] disperate impact against a group. Nobody

[04:14] on this planet has ever designed a test

[04:16] or a standard that men, women, blacks,

[04:19] whites, Asians, Hispanics, Catholic,

[04:20] Jews, gays, straits do so equally well.

[04:23] The very idea is an absurd fantasy.

[04:25] You're going to have different outcomes.

[04:27] But what Desperate Impact does is it

[04:30] says the test itself is wrong. It is a

[04:35] loophole that you could drive a

[04:36] semi-truck through. It's a little

[04:38] sliver. You say, "Oh, desperate impact.

[04:40] What's the big deal here?" No, no, no,

[04:42] no. This has been exploited by DEI

[04:45] actors for the last 30 years. So we have

[04:48] is a world where the federal government

[04:49] can go after any company, any school or

[04:52] any state or any local government that

[04:54] they want to for discrimination using

[04:56] the Civil Rights Act by deciding that

[04:59] whatever their hiring standards are,

[05:01] they don't meet a business necessity. So

[05:03] who decides the necessity? Well, not

[05:05] business owners, not entrepreneurs, not

[05:07] the people that actually own the

[05:09] property. No. Instead, federal

[05:11] bureaucrats and judges decide it. Since

[05:14] the feds can go after anyone for

[05:16] anything, everyone now lives in fear.

[05:19] People have tried to come after Turning

[05:21] Point USA unsuccessfully for disperate

[05:24] impact. Oh, we don't like your criteria

[05:26] for this. And they try to do some EEOC

[05:28] complaint. Thankfully, we won all those

[05:31] complaints. And this is where so much of

[05:34] DEI comes in. So because you're so

[05:37] afraid of big government coming in, the

[05:41] leviathan of the anti-racist state, they

[05:45] try to impress companies, impress the

[05:47] government, show how committed we are to

[05:50] diversity. Companies know that they

[05:52] could be attacked at any time on the

[05:54] grounds of disperate impact. So they try

[05:56] to look good by having a massive DEI

[05:59] department. Don't come after us. Go

[06:01] after some of the other companies.

[06:03] Sometimes this works, sometimes it

[06:05] doesn't. The system has imposed a

[06:08] massive regulatory and efficiency burden

[06:11] on the American

[06:12] economy. DEI, in my opinion, is the

[06:16] greatest silent regulation on American

[06:19] prosperity. DEI, affirmative action and

[06:22] disperate impact. That is the evil

[06:24] trinity.

[06:27] That is the sinister triad, the three

[06:31] horsemen

[06:33] of the death of merit.

[06:36] DEI, affirmative

[06:39] action, and disperate

[06:41] impact. Most people don't even know what

[06:43] those words would mean. Maybe

[06:44] affirmative action five or 10 years ago,

[06:47] but it's been

[06:49] enveloping businesses, entrepreneurs for

[06:51] quite some time.

[06:53] Companies are terrified of a disperate

[06:56] impact complaint. The system has imposed

[06:59] a massive regulatory and efficiency

[07:02] burden. It's turned into a war against

[07:05] merit and against freedom. We've

[07:07] basically made it illegal for companies

[07:10] to simply try to hire the most talented

[07:12] people for a given

[07:14] job. And don't be surprised, our

[07:16] companies are not as innovative as they

[07:17] used to be. This needed to change. And

[07:20] now the Trump administration is finally

[07:22] changing it. To go

[07:25] deeper, we've actually seen a decline in

[07:28] standards and performance. In 2022, the

[07:32] Los Angeles Unified School District

[07:33] removed requirements for algebra algebra

[07:37] proficiency. Why? Because they said

[07:40] black students don't do as well in

[07:41] algebra.

[07:44] So after they removed the algebra

[07:48] proficiency, black students got even

[07:50] worse at

[07:51] algebra, showing that lowering standards

[07:54] didn't actually improve

[07:57] outcomes. Desperate impact penalizes

[08:00] neutral and effective

[08:03] criteria. The use of standardized

[08:05] testing in New York City schools was

[08:08] curtailed due to racial disparities.

[08:11] Yet, these schools produced more

[08:13] national merit scholars per capita than

[08:14] any other state, highlighting that

[08:17] merit-based selection correlates with

[08:19] excellence. This is how they're getting

[08:20] rid of the SAT. They're getting rid of

[08:22] the ACT. Here is the best way that I can

[08:26] summarize

[08:27] it.

[08:29] Effectively, you end up desperate

[08:32] impact means punishing the test when

[08:36] students fail. Not punishing the

[08:38] students when they fail the test.

[08:41] Instead, they're trying to rework the

[08:44] test, not try to improve the excellence

[08:47] or the merit of the applicant or the

[08:51] future

[08:52] student or worker at your company.

[08:56] There's a lot of talk of what's

[08:57] happening in Israel right now. Hostages

[08:59] being released, terrorists resurfacing,

[09:01] Gaza plans, and so on. But there's one

[09:03] thing we tend to overlook. The people of

[09:05] Israel. The war has taken a huge

[09:07] physical and emotional toll on the

[09:10] Jewish people. And that's why I want you

[09:12] to know about the international

[09:13] fellowship of Christians and Jews. And I

[09:16] want you to support the important work

[09:17] they do. IFCJ is on the ground

[09:19] throughout Israel providing food and

[09:21] life-saving aid to the sick and elderly,

[09:23] even released hostages and their

[09:25] families. Join with me and visit

[09:29] ifc.org/learn more. If desperate impact

[09:32] were applied to the

[09:34] NBA, the league would be even in further

[09:37] crisis, not because of poor performance,

[09:39] but

[09:40] because you think about

[09:43] it, like who would actually end up

[09:46] having to be represented? Black men only

[09:48] make up 13% of the US population, but

[09:51] they account for over 70% of NBA

[09:54] players. Well, that's disperate impact.

[09:56] Why is it that black Americans are able

[09:58] to do so well to go into the NBA? You

[10:00] see, because the NBA is an excellenc

[10:03] organization. Should the NBA institute

[10:07] racial quotas on the

[10:09] court? Should should they have to bench

[10:12] players based on the color of their skin

[10:14] to achieve equity? Should they replace

[10:16] merit with a lottery? You can start to

[10:18] see how destructive disperate impact is

[10:21] just in that singular

[10:24] example. Imagine a judge saying that

[10:27] height isn't a job necessity in the NBA.

[10:30] Phenomenal example, Blake. That's

[10:31] exactly right. The l the the lunacy of

[10:35] desperate impact that almost every

[10:37] single company lived in fear of being

[10:40] criticized and potentially indicted for.

[10:44] Was that well? Is that a job necessity?

[10:46] Imagine a judge saying, "Well, height is

[10:50] not a job necessity because Mugsy Bogues

[10:54] wasn't tall." Oh, really? So, is height

[10:57] a job necessity to the NBA? I would say

[11:00] so. I would say that being tall is a job

[11:03] necessity.

[11:04] One reason the college cartel is so

[11:06] strong is that generally the government

[11:09] doesn't like the idea of simply giving

[11:11] job applicants an IQ test because those

[11:14] have disperate impact. You know, I

[11:16] should wear a shirt in this fall to the

[11:18] next fall tour. Blake is going to love

[11:20] this. Bring back IQ

[11:22] tests. What could be more fair than an

[11:25] IQ test? It's not even about where you

[11:27] went to school. Now, schooling can

[11:30] moderately improve your IQ test, your IQ

[11:33] output.

[11:35] Moderately, they're fine with requiring

[11:37] an expensive college diploma, even

[11:39] though those also have disperate impact.

[11:41] Why? Honestly, the only reason is that

[11:44] federal bureaucrats like colleges. If we

[11:46] bring back IQ tests, it's much more

[11:48] fair. It's much more

[11:50] equitable. Someone that might not have

[11:52] gone to as good of a school, for

[11:54] example, they might not have gone to

[11:55] Stevenson High School in the service of

[11:57] Chicago. They might have gone on the

[11:58] south side of Chicago, but an IQ test

[12:00] would be able to pluck out that

[12:02] individual that might not have had the

[12:03] same schooling because they might have

[12:05] the raw intellectual firepower and

[12:07] potential. Who could possibly be be

[12:10] against IQ tests? Oh, they're against IQ

[12:13] tests because they want to have a

[12:14] credentiing lobby, which actually

[12:16] creates more disperate impact, which is

[12:18] what's hilarious.

[12:21] Requiring an expensive college degree is

[12:23] one of the few requirements companies

[12:25] are allowed to have, even though that

[12:27] definitionally is a disperate

[12:30] impact. So, President Trump signing this

[12:33] executive order is one of the great step

[12:37] forwards to get back to a merit-based

[12:43] system. When merit dies, mediocrity

[12:48] inherits the throne. Do you notice, and

[12:51] again, this is a little bit more

[12:52] anecdotal, a little bit subjective, but

[12:55] I think you'd all agree. Do you guys

[12:57] think the country works better, the

[13:01] same, or worse as it did 20 years ago? I

[13:05] mean, basic stuff. The ability to go to

[13:09] a bank and get good service. The ability

[13:12] to have a flight on time, to not have

[13:14] your luggage lost, the ability to get a

[13:16] good driver if you want to get in a taxi

[13:18] cab. Do you think the basic necessities

[13:23] that keep a society going are getting

[13:26] better, worse, or they've stayed the

[13:29] same? Power outages are more common

[13:31] today. I think our quality of how we

[13:34] actually treat people in hospitals has

[13:36] declined

[13:37] rapidly. I'm afraid we're slowly

[13:39] slipping into a culture of mediocrity.

[13:41] And that is what happens when you no

[13:43] longer have a culture of

[13:45] meritocracy. And here is the sad but

[13:48] brutal truth. When you have a culture of

[13:51] meritocracy, sometimes the

[13:54] room is not going to look like Angelina

[13:57] Jolie's Christmas card, as Bill Maher

[13:58] would say. It's not going to look where

[14:01] everyone is different in

[14:03] pigmentation. It might be or it might

[14:06] not be. You see, when you have merit,

[14:11] you don't know what the end result is

[14:13] going to be. It could be a bunch of

[14:14] Asians. It could be a bunch of

[14:16] Nicaraguans. It could be a bunch of

[14:18] Scots. And it's irrelevant because we

[14:20] actually don't care. And that is the

[14:22] point. We don't care about the

[14:27] melanin complexion of the end result. We

[14:30] care can that team, can that unit, are

[14:34] they able to do awesome

[14:37] stuff and forced diversity via disperate

[14:41] impact has been slowly suffocating

[14:47] excellence. We are standing against and

[14:50] President Trump going against desperate

[14:51] impact. It's being ignored by all the

[14:54] legacy media. Honestly, that's okay. And

[14:55] all of you should be applauding and

[14:57] celebrating because it's a massive leap

[15:00] to get us back to our birthright of

[15:02] being an excellent