The Trump administration announced last month that it would begin investigating companies like Comcast and Verizon due to their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices.
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Now, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says he will “likely start probing” those same practices at the Walt Disney Company as well, per Business Insider.
Brendan Carr, the current chairman of the FCC, told Punchbowl News his goal with investigating Disney would be similar to the “DEI-centric” investigations he already announced for Comcast and Verizon.
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This is especially timely since Disney shareholders rejected an anti-DEI proposal during the company’s annual shareholder meeting earlier in March.
Before announcing these investigations, Carr stated that the FCC might block any deal involving a company that promotes DEI practices. “Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” he said in March.
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Trump and his administration have made it clear that he feels many media companies are biased against him, regularly threatening to take action against them. Earlier in March, during a speech at the Department of Justice, Trump called MSNBC and CNN “illegal,” and “political arms of the Democrat Party.”
Carr (who was appointed to the FCC by Trump in 2017) has stated that his agency will be looking into several media companies, even going so far as to say their broadcast licenses could be at stake.
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Disney recently settled a lawsuit Trump filed as a private citizen in the fall of 2024, and later agreed to make a $15 million donation to his presidential library — in addition to paying another $1 million in attorney’s fees in a case about on-air comments from ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos.
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We’ll continue to keep an eye out for more updates on this potential new investigation into Disney by the Trump administration. In the meantime, make sure you stay tuned to the Disney Food Blog for the latest Disney news.
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Shareholders that vote for DEI want to destroy a company. Companies need to look for the best and the brightest. If you try to dismiss an incompetent DEI hire, he/she/them will sue for descrimination.
I must be and idiot because I don’t see the problem with DEI how are people supposed to earn a living
are they supposed to live on the streets
I believe the best person for the position should be hired without regard to race, ethnicity, religion . This is the only way to remove mediocrity from companies, government and institutions .
For further insight to this situation, people might research Germany’s action and solution a few years back to similar problems
. Perhaps the purpose and outcome may become more clear.
Regardless of where someone stands on DEI, it should be up to companies as to how rhey function, not the government. It’s a nightmare that a president is willing to ridiculously overextend his power to target and punish anyone he does not agree with. Rather than accepting that there are different viewpoints like pretty much any other president in history did, the crook is controlling the legal system in attempt to control the media and manipulate the message to the American people. Pretty much agree or be punished. It’s a disgrace. This isn’t the democracy that America was built upon.