Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Trump’s executive order that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating “This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours.”
I hope you are right. This timeline usually shows the companies caving, keeping a bit of a difference from directive, selling it as a we won’t change to their people and actually giving ground to the bullies so they can claim they won as well on conservative media. The polarization of the population makes it so their media won’t overlap enough to cause real conflict, just enough to say the other “side” of the conflict is nuts ignore them.