Because of that I don't think this comes from the top. But doing so would be entirely in character.
That’s why I’m going to wait to believe these stories until more time has passed.
If these were just a blip come a few months, then they were a fluke.
If it becomes a pattern… well it wouldn’t be surprising…
Yeah like meta killing their DEI programs to suck up to Trump.
I don't see a similar hatred of such programs here in Europe luckily. I work for an EU company that has a big footprint in Europe and they have no plans to reduce their inclusivity programs. I'm directly involved in those.
And really, no they are not about quotas at all. It's all about being "colourblind", to remove inherent bias, exactly what the Trumpians claim to want.
Or because Zuckerberg wanted to avoid “life in prison”
Which may be worse, actually.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/31/politics/video/smr-trump-zuck...
Besides, Zuckerberg has more than enough money to evade US law if he needs to (and that's if Trump can manage to make such BS into law!). Even Snowden has successfully done that and he wasn't even rich.
He's not really at risk of going "to prison for life".
Trump probably was just grandstanding there. He makes hundreds of meaningless threats per day, to make it impossible to tell which ones he means to carry out. But they do cause fear, because you can never be 100% certain. And not even other oligarchs are safe.
But it could also be that the overzealous staffers feel like they want to impress the higher ups. So it could well be happening bottom up. The administration certainly isn't jumping in to fix it when it happens. If so, that's something you need to take into account if you want to travel here.
Many are going to boycott us entirely anyway, just because of how hostile the administration is to our erstwhile allies.