Stephen Miller Breaks Down How Trump Administration Is Ending 'Wave Of Racial Discrimination' From Biden Era

Forbes Breaking News

At a White House press briefing, Stephen Miller touted President Trump's early actions since taking office.

Transcript

00:00Thanks for coming in today.

00:01Thank you, Caroline. Great to be up here with you, and great to see so many familiar faces.

00:06I've had a chance to get to know over a number of years as we gather this morning to continue our celebration

00:12of President Trump's unprecedented and historic first 100 days in office,

00:19what are without doubt the greatest 100 days to begin any American presidency in the history of this nation.

00:25This week you've heard about the historic actions President Trump has taken to secure our homeland,

00:31to secure our sovereignty, to secure our economy and our supply chains and our industrial base.

00:38Today you're also going to hear from me about what President Trump has done to secure our values,

00:44our culture, and our way of life from the unwavering assault from the radical left and the communists and the Democrat Party.

00:52One of the most significant crises that President Trump inherited upon taking office

00:57was the wave of racial discrimination, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies

01:03that have taken over both public sector and private sector entities all across the United States of America.

01:10Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is that our air traffic controllers were being hired and promoted

01:16based on race and gender, not their ability to conduct our nation's air traffic.

01:21I would estimate that probably 90% of Americans would agree with the statement

01:25that airline safety should be based on your ability to keep, airline safety jobs should be based on your ability

01:33to keep planes landing and taking off and flying safely, not on what demographic box you check.

01:39President Trump has ended across the entire federal government, all hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion, and training

01:49based on race and sex.

01:52This includes in our law enforcement agencies.

01:56So, again, when we took office, even in sensitive law enforcement, national security, and intelligence agencies,

02:02we were hiring individuals, not on their ability to carry a weapon, not on their ability to keep Americans safe,

02:10not on their ability to conduct sensitive intelligence operations, but based upon race and sex.

02:17And obviously, that is unacceptable.

02:20It's going to be merit-based across the whole federal government.

02:23But this wasn't just the federal government.

02:24This was the private sector, and this was also, of course, our entire university and education system.

02:29So, President Trump's Department of Justice, working with other departments and agencies,

02:35have made clear that this administration is going to fully enforce Title VI, Title VII, and Title IX

02:41of our federal civil rights code.

02:43Discrimination based on race and sex is prohibited by law, and this administration will vigorously enforce that.

02:51And companies, small or large, that violate plain text of federal statutes,

02:59will face appropriate financial and other penalties.

03:03This administration is not going to let our society devolve into communist, woke, DEI strangulation.

03:11We are going to have a system of merit, which is not just a social and cultural issue, it's an economic issue.

03:17When you hire, retain, and recruit based on merit, as President Trump has directed, you advance innovation,

03:26you advance growth, you advance investment, you advance job creation,

03:31you create the best and safest product for all Americans.

03:34When a citizen goes to, say, a hospital in a medical emergency,

03:39they don't care what race or sex their doctor or their nurse is,

03:42they want the best treatment they can get in that emergency.

03:46When they are flying a plane, or when they are on an aircraft,

03:49they want that pilot to be the best pilot, the safest pilot,

03:54not caring what that pilot's race or sex is.

03:57This applies across the whole government.

04:00In particular, looking at our university system,

04:04this administration has opened investigations into universities across the country

04:08for violating, and we talk a lot about Supreme Court rulings,

04:12universities across this country are in plain and direct violation of the Supreme Court's ruling

04:17that affirmative action, as in racial quotas and set-asides, are illegal.

04:24Students must be admitted to universities on a color-blind basis.

04:29But we have demonstrated through clear evidence that our university system,

04:33including our medical schools, and perhaps particularly our medical schools,

04:36are engaging in race-based discrimination, racial set-asides, racial quota schemes,

04:44and other efforts to evade the Supreme Court's ruling,

04:47and again, the plain text of federal statute.

04:51So universities are on notice,

04:53and universities are already facing the financial consequences

04:56of their noncompliance of federal law,

04:59the clearest example that we're all familiar with, of course, being Harvard,

05:02which is engaged in repeat, systemic, and sustained violations of federal civil rights law.

05:08Another area of civil rights law that we talk about a lot, of course, is Title IX,

05:12sex-based discrimination.

05:13This administration ended the Biden administration's policy

05:17and the Democrat Party's policy of allowing men into women's sports,

05:21men into women's spaces.

05:22We are using every single legal and financial tool we have at President Trump's direction

05:27to make it clear that schools and universities are and will lose federal funds,

05:32as you've seen in Maine,

05:33if you allow men to invade women's sports and women's spaces.

05:38And this applies to our whole K-12 system.

05:40The Department of Justice is also coordinating with state and local law enforcement

05:46to fight child abuse in our school systems.

05:49It is child abuse to change a child's gender,

05:53particularly if you do not inform the parents.

05:56In other words, if a five-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school

05:58or a seven-year-old goes to school

06:01and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl or the girl into a boy,

06:05that is child abuse.

06:06And this administration is treating that as child abuse.

06:08And it is a gross violation of parental rights.

06:12This also includes the administration's message to our hospital systems

06:15that they cannot and will not be allowed to use taxpayer dollars

06:19to perform chemical castrations and sexual mutilations of children.

06:25Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric.

06:32They violate all sound medical ethics.

06:35They are completely unwarranted.

06:38They harm children for life irreversibly.

06:41It is child torture.

06:43It is child abuse.

06:44It is medical malpractice.

06:45And so the Department of Health and Human Services,

06:48under the leadership of Bobby Kennedy,

06:51as well as the Department of Justice and other departments of this government,

06:54are making clear to our medical providers and our hospital systems

06:58that you cannot use taxpayer dollars to perform these barbaric procedures on America's children.

07:05And HHS has systematically updated all and eliminated all of the junk, fake science

07:12that was produced under the Biden administration promoting sex changes on children,

07:18promoting the idea of sterilizing children.

07:20That's been cleaned out.

07:22That's been removed.

07:23And new guidance is being issued to doctors and hospitals,

07:26advising them that they cannot perform these horrifying procedures,

07:31these irreversible procedures on our nation's children.

07:34We are also making clear in our prison system,

07:37male prisoners will not be allowed into women's prisons.

07:42The Biden administration promoted prison rape by putting men into female prisons.

07:48That is obviously insane, cruel, and unacceptable.

07:52And even though the Democrat Party and Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrat media

07:57continue to fight to put men into women's prisons,

08:01this administration will not allow that.

08:02And we will not allow men, as well, in our K-12 system,

08:07into women's private spaces and restrooms.

08:09We have seen horrifying example after example of young girls being sexually assaulted

08:14because school districts have allowed men into women's and girls' private spaces.

08:19This administration, President Trump, is at the forefront of protecting women and protecting girls.

08:26And nowhere is that clearer than when we are talking about fighting radical gender ideology.

08:32This administration is also fighting to get critical race theory out of our school districts.

08:38Children will be taught to love America.

08:40Children will be taught to be patriots.

08:42Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding.

08:48So as we close the Department of Education and we provide funding to states,

08:52we are going to make sure that these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.

08:57For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country.

09:03So these are a few of the areas in which President Trump has fought the cancerous, communist, woke culture that was destroying this country.

09:12We were led to believe that men were women, that women were men, that racial discrimination was good, that merit was bad,

09:20and that safety and physical security mattered less than the feelings of liberal ideologues.

09:27The president has also fought to return the Department of Justice to its core mission of protecting public safety

09:32and locking up violent criminals, instead of using the Department of Justice to target conservatives,

09:38to target Christians, to target people of faith.

09:41The last administration cruelly and shamefully used the power of the Justice Department to go after law-abiding Americans,

09:49in particular Trump supporters, conservatives, and Christians.

09:53That persecution has ended. The Department of Justice and the FBI are back in the business of going after bad guys,

10:01of going after gangs, of going after criminals, and keeping Americans safe.

10:05Let me just conclude before taking questions by noting that when you look at the sweep of the first 100 days,

10:12every single crisis that has afflicted America for years, sometimes decades, sometimes generations,

10:19this president has fought head-on.

10:24He has taken on every entrenched power structure and system all across this government, this swamp, this town.

10:33That includes, of course, the doge efforts to slash, corrupt, wasteful government spending, graft, and corruption,

10:39and to stop billions of taxpayer dollars from going to radical left NGOs.

10:44These are left-wing non-profits that are used to advance illegal immigration, to advance open borders,

10:50to advance gender ideology, and to advance all of this insanity that has been turning our country in the wrong direction for so many years.

10:58President Trump took head-on the trade crisis afflicting this country with the destruction of our manufacturing and industrial base,

11:06the shameful betrayal of the American worker by Joe Biden and the globalists that sent all of our supply chains overseas.

11:13He took head-on the catastrophe of mass, unlimited illegal immigration that was turning us into a failed third-world state

11:20and achieved the lowest level of illegal immigration in recorded history without even a close second.

11:27He took on the economic crisis afflicting this country by reopening American energy, by defeating inflation, by lowering gas prices,

11:36by ending the onslaught and reversing the onslaught of federal regulation by reopening coal, shale, oil, natural gas,

11:42and fighting now for the largest tax cut and reform and the largest deregulation reform and the largest energy reform in American history.

11:51These are just some of the things that have ushered in the new golden age,

11:54along with his fight to restore the peace that we had for four years under the previous administration

11:59before Joe Biden sunk this planet into bloodshed and war in the Middle East, in Europe, and rising tensions in Asia.

12:07President Trump, in every area of conflict around the globe, has been fighting to restore peace, security, stability, harmony.

12:13So he inherited an economic catastrophe, a border catastrophe, a public safety catastrophe, and a cultural catastrophe.

12:22In every case, he has reversed those catastrophes and brought America into the new golden age.

Category

Transcript

Recommended