In this monologue, Dennis Prager (Speaker A) argues that former President Barack Obama initiated a federal DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) bureaucracy by issuing Executive Order 13583, which laid the groundwork for a National Diversity Initiative. He claims that President Joe Biden expanded this agenda by signing Executive Orders 13985 and 14035, embedding DEI and CRT principles across every federal department and dramatically increasing related grant spending—from roughly $27 million under Obama to $1 billion in Biden’s first year. Prager cites cultural commentator Christopher Rufo, urging that these executive orders be rescinded and that former President Donald Trump should dismantle the DEI infrastructure. The narrative frames DEI policies as a divisive legacy of Obama that has corrupted American governance.
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You have to understand how DEI bureaucracies became embedded in the federal government. This started under Barack Obama. If you're sitting here wondering, you know, man, just like me, it seemed like we went through the riots, the LA riots in the early '90s, and it seemed like we came out on the other side. Remember Rodney King with his greasy Jheri curl coming out talking about, can we all just get along? I mean, and then we were all there, we were all there, and then all of a sudden It's like, uh, it seemed to be like all we started caring about again— or not we, but those people on the left, the Democrat Party, or, you know, the, the, the people that, uh, of the KKK, the people that perpetuated slavery in America, the people that perpetuated Jim Crow laws. Like, all of a sudden, I mean, they were calling us racist all the time, just absolutely insane. Everything was about skin color. It's because of Barack Obama. I don't think he gets enough credit for being one of the worst presidents, and perhaps the most divisive president in American history. There would be no Joe Biden without Barack Obama. So Christopher Rufo, step 1, understand what DEI is, and also this, that as the result of actions by two presidents, Barack Hussein Obama and also of Joe Biden— first Barack Hussein Obama issued Executive Order 13583 that laid the groundwork for the National Diversity, quote unquote, Initiative. Joe Biden took it even further, took it a step further. He, uh, signed Executive Orders 13985 and also Executive Order 14035, and that further entrenched DEI principles into— listen to this— in every single federal department. We've talked about this before, all right? And it routed billions of dollars toward advancing this this woke ideology throughout American society. You guys may recall that when Joe Biden took office, even though Barack Obama laid the foundations for this DEI/CRT crap to be burrowed in and embedded into all of our federal bureaucracies, if you will, he had only spent, Barack Obama did, about $27 million in federal grants that were aimed towards DEI, CRT, or had that type of language associated with the grants that were sent out to contractors. Under Joe Biden, his first year in office, that jumped to $1 billion. $27 million, $1 billion. Absolutely insane. So first we got to know, all right, we got to, we, we, we got to dig in, we got to destroy those particular executive orders. All right, Trump has to destroy those. And then another thing that Rufo suggests is, and this is under the first step still, cabinet officials must work with Trump to rescind President Obama and President Biden's executive orders.
