

“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘Woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Trump said.ĭeSantis has adopted the idea of “wokeness” in his career and campaign in recent years, establishing the law known as the “Stop WOKE Act,” where woke is used as an acronym for “Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees.” Lawmakers say it was designed to combat “woke indoctrination” in Florida businesses and schools by prohibiting instruction that could make some parties feel they bear “personal responsibility” for historic wrongdoings because of their race, sex or national origin. NSA leaker Reality Winner: Trump classified documents case ‘egregious and cut-and-dry’Īmericans’ view of the ‘state of moral values’ hits all time low: Gallup

So, you’ve got to be willing to fight the woke, we’ve done that in Florida, and we proudly consider ourselves the state where woke goes to die.”Įarlier this week at the Westside Conservative Breakfast in Urbandale, Iowa, Trump said he didn’t like the term because “half the people can’t even define it.” And as that has infected institutions, and it has corrupted institutions. “It’s about putting merit and achievement behind identity politics, and it’s basically a war on the truth. “Look, we know what woke is, it’s a form of cultural Marxism,” DeSantis said.
