The Breakfast Club - Thoughts On Trump Signing Executive Orders: Dismantle Of DEI, Mass Deportation + More

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

The Breakfast Club Shares Their Thoughts On Trump Signing Executive Orders: Dismantle Of DEI, Mass Deportation. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, the mass deportations, the dismantling of DEI, the potential federal hiring freeze, I mean tariffs. And so we're just opening up the phone lines to see how things have impacted people, you know, Jess is already concerned about the price of wigs potentially. Excuse me. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. Okay. It affects my mother and other people who have been in childcare administration. My mom has been taking care of kids and she has a childhood preschool

and has had one for 30 years coming up and a lot of her money comes from federal government. You know, like the full program, she get checks to feed the kids, you know, and then all of her parents, they are using vouchers or scholarship of some sort. You know what I mean? So. A potential federal hiring freeze could shut her down. Absolutely, absolutely. And it will, people are already starting to be affected by it, you know, so. And you see the dismantling of DEI programs,

you see people losing jobs, you know, when you got these mass deportations. Like I know people who, you know, jobs have got ran up in, you know what I mean? Or their parents' jobs have got ran up in, you know. I know family members, I know families who literally have had to leave, because you know, one parents' jobs have gotten ran up, and I know family members, I know families who literally have had to leave because one person in the household was undocumented,

and now they gotta go, and the kids gotta go. It's real out here. Yeah. Yeah, you know, growing up in New York, of course, you're surrounded by immigrants, right? You're surrounded by people that weren't born here. You are one. This guy crazy.

You say surrounded by, I'm like, he's not one in the person surrounding. I'm not. I actually was born here, my parents were too, but you're surrounded by immigrants that, you know, their kids were born here, but their parents not. And now many of my friends and the people that I know, they're fearful that their parents could be, you know, taken back and parents could be, you know, taken by ICE because there's no rules, there's no regulations. They just know that ICE is on the street grabbing immigrants. So people are nervous, people are scared. Are you an anchor, baby?

My parents were born here, sir. My grandparents were born here and I was born here, sir. Prove it, let me see your birth certificate. Try saying that when ICE come and snatch you up. That's gonna be crazy. I'm scared to take my daughter outside to this day. I'm like, Jesus. Damn.

Yes, for real, they might think I'm harboring one of them. Chris is legal though, right? Yeah, he is, but Molly, she look like she, nah, see, she more questioned than her father. People be like, oh, where you get that baby from? And if I just got it by myself, I look like a nanny. I don't know, it's crazy. But for the people who don't know your baby daddy is Mexican? Yes. Not. Not. So it's, I don't know, it's crazy. But for the people who don't know your baby daddy is Mexican. Yes.

Half Mexican. Yes, half Mexican. His mom's straight, straight up Mexican. It's full of blicks though. And my daughter, she looks straight Mexican. Like, oh my God. I think you should stop saying that. You might get a knock.

Popo. Hello. You're stupid. How you set the door? Let's go to the phone lines. You might get a knock, Jess part? Hello? You're stupid. It's high-censorship. Let's go to the whole line. You might get a knock, Jess. Crazy, I'm scared. Hello, who's this? This is Dr. Allen.

Hey, Dr. Allen, where you calling from? I'm from 75, but I'm in Indianapolis now. Okay, how have Trump's executive orders impacted you thus far? Absolutely. So I am a director for diversity and culture inclusion. Okay, how have Trump's executive orders impacted you thus far? Absolutely, so I am a director for diversity and culture inclusion for Engineering Research Center, so through the National Science Foundation.

They pretty much stopped all of me, my ability to spend money. I built programs like, easy programs for high school students. They told me I could not take no more students to Washington DC for, and we had an upcoming conference for them to present their research. I have about $300,000 in funding that I can no longer touch because I work in DEI. They told me literally I couldn't spend no money because my proposal said I was working with marginalized students and that is discrimination by another name. When you're saying that I can't work with students because they're from marginalized backgrounds,

but if it was a white student, I can go ahead and continue with my work. This discrimination by another name. And so I have another about $5 million in additional funding that I have sent in there for review that they just probably not gonna throw out now and these are this is money that's going to our students our low-income students our underrepresented students to make sure that we get skills and help our students compete with grow go to college get

scholarships and we can no longer touch that money they are literally trying to prevent us from growing our community and be able to do the things that we need to do all because they don't want us to be as successful as we could be. And it is very sickening. How do we combat that? How do we combat it? How do we combat it? How can we? Well, a few things that we have to do is we have to put pressure on our elected officials.

The Democrats have to be able to stop, get off their fingers and actually do something. This should not be a process for them to be able to discriminate by another name. There should be some type of lawsuit that are letting them say, hey, you all have not developed any criteria for what is considered DEI. You all are just looking for anything that says black or brown, underrepresented, marginalized, low income, and that is discriminated. There needs to be some folks that are doing something in the legal arena,

they need to be folks that are doing something in the political arena, and we also need to start thinking about how do we make sure that we're not hamstrung the next time one of these oligarchs or somebody comes in and wants to take over power like this? We need to be able to make sure that we're self-sufficient, sustainable,

and figure out ways in which we can do that. I totally agree man You know the ill part about it is there are you know guardrails and tools that Democrats can use but you know We just keep getting all these statements about norms and faith and institutions brought him institutions are done Okay, these people are playing by a different set of rules. They need to figure it out Well, let's open up the phone lines again, we're taking some more calls when we come back. 800-585-1051, we're talking about the list of Trump's executive orders.

How has this affected you so far? Call us up right now, it's The Breakfast Club, good morning. ["The Breakfast Club"] Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Now if you're just joining us, we're talking about the list of Trump's executive orders and how it's affecting people already from DEI to the dismantling, the dismantling of DEI programs.

You know, so many things we've discussed in the last couple of days. So there's a lot of people on the line. So let's go right to the phone line. So hello, who's this? Hi, this is Laquita. Hey, Laquita. Good morning. How a Trump's executive orders affected you so far? Good morning you guys I'm here in the 757 and as you guys know it is a far military community And I am a federal government employee and as you guys know like that email went out last week basically asking us do you want to resign and and keep your you know your

benefits keep your pay until September so a lot of people are freaking out about that I also know a lot of people that have gotten final job offers but if they have a start date after the 8th of February they've had to rescind that job offer so a lot of people have made plans based on the job offers and they're not able to accept them and they don't know when, you know, they are going to be able to even, you know, if that job will still be available when this hiring freeze is up. So it's a little stressful out here and there's no guarantees. A lot of schedules have changed. I mean, it's a lot of agencies don't know what's going to be the final like period and all be all. But you know, there's a lot of nervous energy out here, especially with a lot of federal agencies

in the Hampton Roads region. Thank you for calling, Queen. Yeah, thank you for calling, mama. Hello, who's this? This Shaleah. Peace, Shaleah. Peace, Shaleah. Good morning. How are you? How has it affected you, Shaleah? I'm good, how are you? It's affected me because I have a childcare assistance, subsidy assistance application, and right now that's pending,

that possibly may not be approved because I have a toddler and I'm a full-time working mom, and I need childcare assistance is a possibility I won't get it. Yeah. So sorry for you. See, I'm glad we're having this conversation, man, because you see all of these things on the news,

and you see Trump doing all of these executive orders. This stuff is impacting average, everyday, regular working-class folks. We're all being impacted by this in some way, shape or form, or we know somebody who is. Let's go, there's a lot of people on the line. 800-585-1051. Hello, who's this? And this is Rob coming out of Summerville, South Carolina.

843, what's up, Summerville? How Trump executive orders impacting you in South Carolina right now, man? Oh man, I live in a pretty upcoming neighborhood of being built up and driving. At Nexus? Quiet. You said what?

You live in Nexus? Somerville. Caney Bay. Caney Bay, OK. Caney Bay. Yeah, and driving through the neighborhood is quiet. The workers aren't really there. And I'm just imagining what the conversations

with all these builders are about getting houses out to people, because they're not being built and they're not paying for American labor. So I'm wondering like, what's the conversation? How's that gonna be affecting the market with people that's already expensive enough to buy a house? Damn, so you say it's quiet,

they didn't deported everybody, huh? Ain't no construction and nothing. Jesus. No nails banging on the roofs, nothing, just quiet. You drove by the Home Depot? Oh my God. They're not hanging out up front no more. Lord, what's wrong with y'all, man? We're gonna finish on this construction. Nothing just quiet. You drove by the Home Depot Thank you brother, it's gonna never call her hello, who's this?

Yo, good morning They deported him just that fast. That's his name was Julio. Oh my God. His name was Julio. They're driving off with him right now. Hello, who's this? Hi, good morning, this is Erica. I'm calling from Fort Lauderdale.

Good morning. Hey Erica, how are you? We're talking about Trump's executive orders. How has it affected you at all? I mean, honestly, John, let's be real. Numa women-loan numbers don't. America voted for Trump. I don't understand now why did everybody

so up at war about what's going on when they were killing your multiple times, over and over, providing administration, let us know about 2020.. Nobody didn't care. I don't know. Why is everybody up for now? Ma'am ma'am Ma'am, you're absolutely right. But what I got to do with his executive orders impacting people It was expected it was forthcoming Yes, there's nothing you can do about it if you voted him in office But have but have they impacted you whatever that's the question

I'm gonna be honest with you The one I'm 91 23 121 Kamala 21. There's all these people out there who are just crazy and people are just everything that's going on in there. All right, thank you mama. What is she saying?

She's basically saying that y'all did it to yourselves. That's what she said. Y'all voted for him and she didn't answer the question. She basically just said that y'all did it to yourselves. What was she quoting, Bible scriptures? Yes. She going to hallway somewhere too. To that place, I didn't even understand.

I'm like, oh Lord. And I understand what she's saying, but that's not the question we're asking. The question we're asking is how has his executive orders impacted people because you know, what I would like to start hearing is solutions, you know? Like I would like to start hearing, you know, how we can combat some of these things.

But how can we, right? Cause he's the president, he put these orders into play. This is his house right now, right? But he's doing things, So how do we stop that? How do we defend it? How do we combat that? How? Is there any way like something can happen locally?

Like, cause even with my mom saying, you know, she will with my mom being affected, you know, and ending the call who just called up and said, like they're going to cut her childcare benefits. She's a full-time working mom. Like, is there something we can do? Like the mayors, the governors, like, you know, I know he signed these orders, but it's's no way like can we tackle it locally?

There's tools and guardrails that these people have at their disposal disposal to try to slow down some of this stuff But you know, they got to have the the the strength to use them You know, the Democrats are a party of cowards. They're leaderless right now, right now You know me but they are they are guardrails in place. All right, well, we gotta. This is gonna be a never ending conversation by the way. Y'all do know that, right? Yeah.

It just feels weird because when you look at Biden and him being in office in the last four years and what he's done and then you look at Trump being so aggressive and doing everything that he wanted to do and not apologizing for it and just doing it and basically saying, I told y'all what I was gonna do if you don't like it middle finger.

And then you look at the last four years and look at Biden was just so nice and just trying to be the nice guy. It just really makes you upset, you know? Yeah, for sure. All right, well, is there a moral to the story at all? The moral to the story is this is gonna be a never-ending conversation,

but that's what the Breakfast Club is here for. The Breakfast Club is here to have those conversations, okay? And we'll bring in people way smarter than us to tell us what these guardrails are and what these tools are, what these tools are that they can use to try to slow some of this stuff down. Wake that ass up! Early in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey I'm Jay Shetty and my latest episode is with Bill Gates. These fortunes are almost illegitimate unless in a very smart way given back. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast, Here's the Thing. or wherever you get your podcasts. You're left alone. You know, you do three hours in the morning, you write. Three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school and right at night and after nine hours, you come out with seven pages and then you're moving on. Listen to Here's the Thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Arturo Castro and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse.

And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get Ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians people like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait. the world.