Walmart to Toyota: Major Companies Rolling Back DEI Policies [Video]

Walmart is the latest major U.S. company to announce a rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, with the retail giant telling Newsweek that “we’ve been on a journey and know we aren’t perfect.”

The company confirmed it plans to stop using the terms “LatinX” and “DEI” in official communications, won’t continue the Racial Equity Center it founded in 2020 and will ban any sexualized or transgender products marketed toward children.

The move follows President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory on November 5 in which he picked up 312 Electoral College votes against 226 for Vice President Kamala Harris and won the popular vote for the first time in three elections. In October, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was planning to ban certain DEI initiatives if he won a second term in the White House.

Trump’s victory was interpreted by some as a rejection of the DEI and “woke” policiesadopted by much of the …