'Varney & Co.' Host Stuart Varney discusses corporate leaders and media change parties to help advance their agendas.
during “pick me up” on wednesday,Varney and CoHost Stewart Varney talked about the changing tone of corporate leaders with the new Trump administration.
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In the last 4 years, Corporate America He has lined up with Biden. Maybe they really believed the progressive message. Perhaps they were frightened by the government's demagoguery about climate, race, gender and pronouns. who knows But it's over.
Diversity includes Delta Airlines (Fox News Digital / Fox News)
Corporate America is now in a rush to change direction.
'Varney & Co.' Host Stewart Varney analyzed Trump's first news conference since the election, where the president-elect covered almost every topic.
Just look at Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. He and his company bent over backwards to help the Democrats. Zuckerberg gave $400 million for the 2020 election. Facebook banned Donald Trump after the January 6 riots. How's that for free speech? And when anyone tried to post unorthodox views about COVID, they were censored!
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Now a complete reversal. Zuckerberg travels to Mar-a-Lago, pays for Trump's inauguration, and then makes an offer. A new free speech plan modeled after Elon Musk's “X” model.. In a video, he says there is just too much censorship! Think about it, a trillion dollar company does a 180.
Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Wednesday. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
And then there's DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the advanced version of affirmative action. Biden's team pushed it hard. Now, DEI is almost universally phased out.
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this The latest retreat is McDonald's. On Monday, the company announced it would waive specific diversity goals for its top executives. Merit is making a comeback. A Supreme Court ruling outlawing affirmative action in colleges has helped end DEI, but it was Donald Trump who engineered the court's conservative majority.
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Immediately after winning the election, Trump held a trial in Mara Lago. The media came down to kiss the ring. Remember Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, desperately trying to get back on Trump's good side after years of insults? Canadian Justin Trudeau was also openly afraid of Trump's tariffs. But that was it The flow of managers Which showed us the extent of the corporate changes that Trump would bring.
United States President-elect Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago on January 7, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Reuters/Carlos Barria (Reuters/Carlos Barria/Reuters Photo)
They want to influence the new government and are not afraid to change sides. They should dump Biden and go with Trump because he has the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives and all the power that goes with that.