The Biden years will be remembered for many things—border chaos, economic drag, a commander-in-chief barely able to navigate a teleprompter—but perhaps most absurdly, they’ll be known for the rise (and glorious fall) of America’s most laughable pseudo-profession: the DEI officer.
Corporate DEI is in decline:
New job postings for DEI-related roles plunged far below their peak and even pre-pandemic levels.https://t.co/TOpROyp4jx pic.twitter.com/m7mEh8qPPb
— Consumers’ Research (@ConsumersFirst) October 20, 2025
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Three words that became a corporate religion overnight, a multi-billion-dollar industry, and, for a brief cultural moment, the moral high ground from which left-wing ideologues tried to lecture the rest of us. And now, just like the tie-dye shirts of the ’70s and the fidget spinners of 2017, the DEI fad is out.
Comically so.
Since President Trump returned to the White House this January and signed an executive order dismantling DEI preferences across the federal workforce and private sectors that do business with it, the writing’s been on the wall. And it’s written in red ink. DEI job postings have plummeted nearly 50% from their peak. They’re disappearing faster than Hunter Biden’s hard drive contents.
At their 2022 peak, there were over 10,000 DEI-related jobs. Now? Roughly 1,500. That’s not a “soft landing.” That’s a nosedive.
Get out of your bubble and learn. I’m assigning you homework. Watch this video on diversity, equity and inclusion. Start at 1:40. I want a full discussion about this assignment on 10/18/2025 https://t.co/P68Ilgrz3g
— Kellshashadenuf (@Kellshashadenuf) October 18, 2025
Trump made it clear on Day One: the federal government would no longer be a vehicle for race-based hiring or ideological quotas masquerading as “equity.” Real civil rights mean equal opportunity, not outcome-based engineering to satisfy the progressive guilt complex. And federal agencies, regulators, and corporate America are getting the message loud and clear.
Even more revealing? Former DEI “professionals” are now scrubbing their resumes of any trace of it—like it’s a bad tattoo from the pandemic years. HR departments are ghosting applications from candidates who once touted themselves as DEI consultants. Why? Because the new corporate climate is asking a simple, uncomfortable question: What did these roles actually accomplish?
Turns out, a lot of division, a lot of paperwork, and a lot of trainings that made people afraid to speak at work.
Nestlé is cutting 16,000 jobs globally — one of the biggest layoffs in the food/consumer goods sector in decades.
To put it in perspective: in 2012, Hostess (then Interstate Bakeries) laid off about 18,500 workers during its liquidation.
So this Nestlé cut is possibly the… pic.twitter.com/6rQjzCpP6c
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) October 16, 2025
More than half of the DEI workforce has now shifted into other roles. The rest? Either unemployed, rebranded into HR, or diving into academia—the last safe haven for ideas that fail everywhere else.
But don’t get too comfortable. DEI isn’t dead. It’s mutating. Like a viral trend that won’t admit it’s over, it’s slinking into new forms—rebranded as “culture teams,” “belonging departments,” or “inclusive engagement officers.” In many cases, it’s just HR with a pronoun pin. And while the big DEI banners might be coming down, the ideology behind them is still lurking in certain boardrooms and classrooms.
That’s why vigilance matters.
