Google and Disney, two of the nation’s biggest companies, are changing course on DEI following President Trump’s executive order. Praise God!

From The New York Post. Google Calendar has removed cultural celebrations like Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Pride Month as President Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

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The calendar has also erased Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Hispanic Heritage Month from its pages, as earlier reported by The Verge. …

Google said it removed the holidays last year when it “standardized” its calendars to only include public holidays and national observances as classified by timeanddate.com, according to statements posted on the help page by Google product experts. …

Over the past few years, major US companies have been backtracking on their diversity policies, a trend that has only sped up since Trump took office and signed an executive order banning DEI programs across the federal level. …

Google earlier this month killed its diversity hiring goals, and said it was reviewing recent court decisions and Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing DEI. …

On Monday, Google officially switched the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” on its Maps app. Trump’s preferred title will only be seen for those searching in the US.

The company said it will also revert back to using Mount McKinley, not Denali, for the mountain in Alaska per Trump’s executive order.

From Fox Business. The Walt Disney Company appears to be scaling back its DEI initiatives according to its latest SEC filing – and activist investors are pushing the entertainment conglomerate to go even further.

Disney dropped its “Reimagine Tomorrow” program from their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion section of its 2024 SEC 10-K report. The program was mentioned in the 2023 report, which defines the program as “the Company’s digital destination for amplifying underrepresented voices and features some of Disney’s DE&I commitments and actions.” The program hosted a controversial 2022 leaked “all-hands” meeting in which a Disney executive touting her “not at all secret gay agenda.” …

Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” webpage, which is still active, says its mission is “amplifying underrepresented voices and untold stories as well as championing the importance of accurate representation in media and entertainment.” …

“Disney dropping [Reimagine Tomorrow] from their DEI section could mean they’re walking back their DEI investments, or it could signal they’re hiding them,” Stefan Padfield, director of the Free Enterprise Project for the National Center for Public Policy Research, told Fox News Digital. “Either they recognize that more litigation is coming, or it could be part of a vibe shift.” …

By scaling back its DEI section in its SEC filing, Disney joins a growing trend of companies from Meta to John Deere that have rolled back or eliminated their DEI initiatives.

The movie, cruise and theme park behemoth has also dropped its “The Disney Look” appearance guidelines from their DEI section in their 2024 SEC filing. The 2023 SEC filing states that the guidelines were “updated to cultivate a more inclusive environment that encourages and celebrates authentic expressions of belonging among employees.” …

The moves come as Disney reportedly lost 700,000 users on its Disney+ streaming platform in the final quarter of 2024. The entertainment conglomerate has faced backlash for, what some call, its “woke political agenda.” The corporation was sued by America First Legal in March 2024 for allegedly doing “damage to Disney’s brand, properties, and commercial reputation by management’s manufactured misalignment between its woke political and social agenda and the vast majority of the Company’s customers.”

Disney’s move to distance itself from the woke initiative comes as activist investors are pressuring the company to drop its participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. …

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(Excerpts from The New York Post and Fox Business. Photo Credit: Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash)