Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Barely hours into his second term, President Donald Trump sent a clear message that the federal government is getting a serious reality check. One of his first moves? Nuking the bloated and divisive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that have been spreading through federal agencies like a bad rash since the Biden years. And predictably, some bureaucrats are already trying to play games to keep their cushy positions. Case in point: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which apparently thinks changing a job title is enough to dodge Trump’s executive order. Cute, but no one’s buying it.
Let’s recap. Trump’s executive order mandates that all DEI hires be placed on paid leave immediately and that agencies prepare to shut down these programs for good. The directive even warns against using “coded or imprecise language” to keep these jobs alive. Yet within 24 hours, eagle-eyed observers noticed that ATF’s Chief Diversity Officer, Lisa T. Boykin, suddenly had a shiny new title: “Senior Executive.” How convenient. This is the bureaucratic equivalent of slapping on a fake mustache and pretending you’re someone else.
The ATF was just caught rebranding their Chief Diversity Officer to Chief Officer to circumvent President Trump’s order.
Time to clean house. All of it. pic.twitter.com/cIfgj2zljk
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 22, 2025
She definitely didn’t unilaterally change her title, so everyone involved must be fired too.
If we can’t find out who else was involved, maybe we should just dissolve ATF entirely. https://t.co/4M4UbutAZJ
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) January 23, 2025
The ATF hasn’t exactly been quick to comment, but the move reeks of desperation. Clearly, they didn’t get the memo—or maybe they thought Trump wasn’t serious about his promise to drain the swamp, version 2.0. Spoiler alert: he’s serious. Trump’s order explicitly slams DEI programs as a divisive, wasteful use of taxpayer dollars that have “undermined national unity” by prioritizing identity politics over individual achievement. And he’s absolutely right. The American people are tired of their government spending billions to push racial and gender quotas that divide instead of unite.
The snark doesn’t stop at the ATF, though. Democrats and the activist class are already in meltdown mode over Trump’s sweeping executive orders, which not only torpedoed DEI programs but also rolled back affirmative action policies in federal contracting, dismantled Biden-era climate extremism, and reversed other woke priorities like the White House Gender Policy Council. Naturally, the left is framing this as some kind of draconian crackdown, but here’s the truth: these policies had nothing to do with fairness or equality. They were about entrenching a radical agenda that most Americans never signed up for.
Take the ATF’s move as a prime example of just how deeply entrenched this nonsense has become. It’s not about serving the American people or making government more efficient. It’s about protecting a bureaucratic class that thrives on creating problems instead of solving them. Trump’s executive order rightfully points out that DEI programs have turned the civil rights movement on its head, replacing the principles of hard work and merit with identity-based quotas. As the memo puts it, these policies have created a “pernicious identity-based spoils system” that prioritizes how someone was born over what they can achieve. That’s not progress—it’s regression, and it’s high time we called it out for what it is.
The timing of Trump’s executive order couldn’t be more fitting. Just hours after being sworn in, he wasted no time reversing 78 of Biden’s executive orders, each more inflationary and radical than the last. Whether it’s restoring common sense to the border, cutting regulations strangling businesses, or ending the weaponization of federal agencies against political opponents, Trump’s message is clear: the adults are back in charge.
Of course, critics will claim this is all about revenge politics or stoking division, but the reality is that most Americans are tired of being told that their country is irredeemably flawed and that their hard work doesn’t matter. Trump’s executive actions are a long-overdue course correction—a reminder that government exists to serve the people, not the other way around.
As for the ATF and their clever little title switcheroo? Let’s just say the Trump administration isn’t exactly known for letting things slide. Bureaucrats trying to outsmart the system would do well to remember that there’s a reason Trump was elected (twice) to bring common sense back to Washington. Playtime is over.