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There was a time when Americans assumed that when they boarded a plane, the person up front earned that job the old-fashioned way, through skill, training, and merit. And why wouldn’t they? That very normal expectation should be the entire foundation of public trust in air travel, right?
But sadly, times have changed, and that trust has been utterly destroyed.
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DEI has invaded aviation. Not as some harmless corporate trend or HR hobby. No. This dangerous new foundation is a direct slap in the face to the idea that safety comes first. Standards are now just an “idea,” and everything has become a twisted left-wing PR exercise.
President Trump clearly understands this. That’s why, early on, Team Trump moved to crush DEI hooey inside the FAA and DOT and push everything back toward merit-based decisions. It was an absolutely necessary first step, and Trump moved quickly. The problem is that DEI isn’t just some memo sitting in the Swamp. It’s become a full-blown cultural operating system across corporate America, professional licensing, hiring pipelines, and institutional incentives. It’s everywhere. It’s like a cancer. It grows, it spreads, and it infects everything it touches.
And when something is that rooted into who we are as a country, it doesn’t just disappear because the top brass issues a new command. It goes underground. It changes names. It hides in compliance language and internal training. Then it quietly keeps doing what it was designed to do… eat away at excellence.
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The New York Post just published a piece that lays out exactly how deep the DEI obsession still runs inside major airlines, why the FAA has far more leverage than it has been willing to use, and why every time you step onto a US plane, you could be placing your life in the hands of an incompetent doofus who is only sitting there behind the wheel because they “checked a box.”
Three million Americans will board a plane today assuming the pilot earned that seat through merit. They shouldn’t.
For decades, airlines have subordinated safety to diversity quotas.
President Donald Trump rightly recognized this danger: Early on, he ordered the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation to rescind all DEI initiatives and return to merit-based hiring and promotions. But the FAA can, and must, do more.
Federal law makes it illegal to run an airline “without an air carrier operating certificate.”
These certificates must “contain terms necessary to ensure safety” and can be revoked if the “public interest” requires it. So the government has leverage. And the stakes are sky-high.
I analyzed every US commercial flight crash attributed to pilot error since 2000: Women and minorities represent less than 10% of pilots yet were factors in four out of six crashes (66%).
The sample size is small. But precisely because crashes are so rare, the few times they occur it’s important to scrutinize who is at the controls; under DEI’s guiding principle of relying on statistical disparities, it’s certainly enough to raise questions.
It’s not that women and minorities are inherently unable to fly planes, but in practice, pressure for affirmative action too often leads airlines to lower their standards to meet quotas.
Today, major carriers persist in aggressive diversity hiring.
Delta CLO Peter Carter declared in January 2025 that the airline is “steadfast” in its DEI commitments, calling them “critical to our business.”
United’s training academy maintains its goal of ensuring 50% of graduates are women or minorities.
Southwest still pledges to “recruit, hire, and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce.”
American agreed not to impose illegal quotas, but that leaves plenty of wiggle room.
The need for action is urgent.
So, even if part of what’s described up there is true, it’s absolutely insane. Air travel is one of the few areas of life where Americans still expect one standard: excellence. Sorry, but nobody in their right mind wants the “inclusive” version of competence at 30,000 feet.
Probably the most important point in that NYP blip above is the “leverage” question. Airlines don’t get to operate on “good vibes.” They operate because the government certifies them to operate. That means there’s a pressure point that actually matters.
But hold that thought, because here’s where this whole DEI disaster connects to an even bigger issue we’ve been tracking.
As we all know by now, DEI isn’t just something the left pushes in universities and corporate marketing departments. It has been embedded into everything. Even with Trump pushing real reforms, we can see how hard it is to remove every last bit of this cancerous tumor.
And that became very apparent recently with the 8(a) scandal that blew up. Major parts of that very anti-white program were gutted, but it was later discovered that a pretty hefty, sort of “secret” slush fund somehow survived the axing… rumor has it higher-ups in the Trump admin didn’t want to gut it completely. That’s another sign that DEI isn’t just some goofy ideology anymore. It’s become something real and powerful, something that actively fights to keep itself alive, even with help from our side.
Yesterday, we reported on Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to begin dismantling the federal government’s oldest DEI contracting program, the 8(a) program. We also flagged an uncomfortable reality: while progress is being made, parts of Washington appear reluctant to fully rip this system out by the roots.
Since then, some important new information has come to light, and we want to share it with you.
Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo revealed that despite repeated promises to abolish DEI, the Small Business Administration was still overseeing a massive version of the 8(a) program, a system that effectively functions as a $26 billion slush fund open to nearly every identity group except one: white Americans.
That reporting from Chris forced a response from high up.
In her initial statement, Kelly Loeffler, who currently heads the Small Business Administration, acknowledged what we already knew. Under the Biden administration, the 8(a) program was aggressively expanded and turned into a DEI weapon, pushing out legit job creators and focusing on unconstitutional “approved skin color” hires that openly discriminate against whites.
Loeffler said there are several steps already being taken by the Trump admin to correct this. She said the overall 8(a) contracting goal was sharply reduced. And the practice of approving firms based on so-called “social disadvantage” was ended. Also, the Biden-regime program that coached minorities and women on how to qualify was gutted. And for the first time in the program’s 45-year history, a full audit was launched.
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As scrutiny got even more heated, the issue found its way to President Trump. Now, the SBA has issued an even clearer update with written guidance to all employees spelling out what the agency says has been the rule since day one of the Trump administration.
The SBA says it will not deny any small business owner admission to the 8(a) program because they are white, and it won’t give preferential treatment to any business owner because they’re a minority. Officials say they acted immediately to end race-based discrimination and to roll back the Biden regime explosion of this program that turned it into a DEI pipeline.
The numbers say it all. Under Biden, more than 2,000 new firms were approved for the 8(a) program. Under Trump, less than 70 have been approved. The audit now underway reviews every participating contractor going back 15 years.
You can read the entire piece here:
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As you can see, DEI is clawing to stay alive in every corner of the country, while most of us on the right are fighting to destroy it. So who wins here?
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That’s where the second part of the New York Post piece comes into play. It lays out how the FAA could use its certification power to actually force merit-only hiring and expose what DEI has been doing behind closed doors.
The New York Post article goes on:
The FAA should condition operating certificates on merit-only hiring and verify compliance.
Carriers that resist will find litigation works against them. Discovery will expose how extensively DEI has lowered standards.
Exhibit A: the 2019 Atlas Air crash. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the cause to be “the inappropriate response by the first officer,” Conrad Aska, a black pilot at the controls.
A check airman (an experienced pilot who oversees quality and safety) described his “piloting performance as among the worst he had ever seen.”
When faced with an unexpected situation in the simulator, Aska would “get extremely flustered and could not respond appropriately.”
NTSB found Aska panicked after accidentally initiating a go-around procedure and flew the plane into the ground.
Atlas remains unrepentant. Its website declares, “Equity and inclusion are deeply woven into our operations.”
Most diversity disasters leave far-from-complete paper trails. Training failures happen behind closed doors. Near-misses can go unreported. Crashes can be blamed on mechanical failure, understaffing or other politically acceptable causes.
The coverup playbook was written in 1994 when Lt. Kara Hultgreen, the Navy’s first female F-14 pilot, crashed and died.
Officials declared it a “gender-neutral accident,” citing engine failure. Her training commander insisted, “We have one standard, and everyone has to meet that.”
These were lies. A whistleblower leaked the true records five months later: pilot error.
Hultgreen had four “downs,” safety violations that would have washed out any male pilot.
Instead, she received “extra training, specialized one-on-one tutoring, and a series of special concessions not normally afforded” other pilots. Lowered standards were a key factor in her death .
That playbook is still in use. Every official explanation now deserves skepticism.
You can read the entire NYP article here.
So here’s the Cliff Notes on DEI that every American needs to understand: Most of the real damage happens where you’ll never see it. Inside training pipelines, evaluations, special concessions, and internal paperwork that never see daylight unless something, or someone, forces them out. That’s how the cancer keeps spreading.
And once all of that is hidden from you, it becomes way easier to sell people “official explanations” that never actually line up with reality.
So why is DEI so hard to remove, even with Trump fighting it?
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Because DEI isn’t just a belief anymore. It’s a machine with built-in self-defense mechanisms. Over time, it stopped being just some left-wing idea and turned into jobs, contracts, and careers. And once that happened, people protected it the same way they protect their paycheck.
DEI also creates political leverage. If you control who gets opportunities and contracts, you control loyalty. It’s not all that different from the left allowing illegals to flood the country. You’re creating a group with built-in loyalty ties. That’s why DEI keeps showing up in places where it has no business being in the first place. And think about it. The left will need jobs and opportunities for these low-skilled workers they’re importing in order to keep them happy.
If Team Trump wants DEI gone for good, it can’t just be discouraged. It has to become structurally impossible to survive.
Agencies like the FAA must tie their certification process and compliance to merit-only standards and require actual documentation that can be audited, not just accept “promises.”
Also, Team Trump should treat DEI like a corruption risk. Follow the money, contractors, and training groups, and then bust up the pipelines.
Lastly, DEI survives because it hides. Force transparency on everything, because if the public saw how often “one standard” turns into special concessions, the whole game would collapse in a heap.
Yes, team Trump has taken meaningful steps, and that should be recognized. But we’re now seeing that there’s a bigger lesson here. DEI was built to survive politics and attacks from people like Trump. It dug deep into the bureaucracy, and that’s why it won’t die easily.
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The question now is if the Trump admin is willing to move from a symbolic rollback to full-scale enforcement. Because when it comes to US aviation, there’s no room for experiments. There is only one job: Keep people alive.
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