{"id":1547848,"date":"2025-07-19T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1547848"},"modified":"2025-07-19T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:05:00","slug":"belmont-university-rebrands-dei-program-defies-trump-executive-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/belmont-university-rebrands-dei-program-defies-trump-executive-orders\/1547848\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont University Rebrands DEI Program, Defies Trump Executive Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belmont University Rebrands DEI Program, Defies Trump Executive Orders<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Belmont University is in the spotlight after videos surfaced showing top administrative officials discussing how they are defying President Trump\u2019s Executive Orders\u00a0ending official discrimination<\/a>\u00a0based on race and sex.<\/p>\n

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Townhall reports<\/a>\u00a0that it has obtained leaked video of officials at the Nashville, Tennessee-based university bragging that they\u2019ve simply rebranded their Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI) program as the office of Hope, Unity and Belonging (HUB).<\/p>\n

According to Jozef Lukey, Assistant Director of Student Success and Flourishing at Belmont, the secret to not getting caught skirting Trump\u2019s executive orders is to keep everything as quiet as possible while working \u201cto create as an inclusive space as possible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8SCOOP: Leaked recordings from Belmont University in Red State Tennessee show that school officials are trying to trick the Trump administration by simply renaming their DEI program to HUB (Hope, Unity, and Belonging) while changing nothing.<\/p>\n

In the recordings, assistant\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/mBlVlFYWys<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Lukey states in one of the videos that Belmont officials try to adapt to what\u2019s happening around them but emphasized that this doesn\u2019t mean that their efforts to promote DEI completely stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, we\u2019re not going to be out in the news doing all these things, \u2018this is how we stand and this is what we stand by.\u2019 No, we\u2019re not going to make any outward statements,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Lukey explained, tacitly admitting that Belmont is working from the shadows to violate the executive order.<\/p>\n

However, the university\u2019s name-changing ruse has caught the attention of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) represents Tennessee\u2019s 5th Congressional district, which includes Belmont.<\/p>\n

Ogles has penned a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, calling for a full investigation into the the school\u2019s DEI sleight-of-hand as well as urging investigations into other schools that risk potential defunding over their defiance of the president\u2019s orders reining in DEI.<\/p>\n

In that letter, Ogles calls for an immediate compliance review, clarified guidance that mere name changes constitute non-compliance and could result in a loss of federal funding and asks the Department of Education to report to Congress on the prevalence of this type of rebranding.<\/p>\n

Ogles tells McMahon that, \u201cBelmont University, like all universities, must understand that if they persist in promoting racist DEI programs in violation of their students\u2019 rights, they will be defunded.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8SCOOP UPDATE: Rep. Andy Ogles from Tennessee’s 5th congressional district located close to Belmont University in Nashville, has responded to this morning’s leaked videos exposing the university’s secret DEI program and concealment of illegals enrolled at the school.<\/p>\n

Rep. Ogles\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/iw1yMwCKo9<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/kf1FIziLYc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 17, 2025<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/18\/2025 – 20:05<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/belmont-university-rebrands-dei-program-defies-trump-executive-orders<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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