What a hoot to see so many once-cocky, Big Boss Men of corporate America completely surrender their policies, principles, and personal pride to grovel at the feet of Trump!

Even egomaniacal tech billionaires like Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are publicly debasing themselves with a cringey eagerness to kiss-up to The Donald. Indeed, CEOs in practically every industry – from oil to food – have suddenly converted to MAGA nuttiness. And to prove their devotion, each is loudly pledging to sacrifice all of their corporate programs that advance such core American values as equal rights, workplace fairness, and environmental protection. Parroting Trump’s decree that DEI egalitarianism is “immoral,” the barons piously insist their reversals is a matter of ethics.

Hogwash. Their morality starts and ends with money, and as the Bible points out: “The love of money is the root of all evil.”

Consider the case of Paramount, the multibillion-dollar media giant. Although much of its wealth now comes from diversity programming on its MTV and BET networks, the top brass is bowing to TrumpSpeak, obediently killing Paramount’s diversity policies – and even scrubbing the word “inclusion” from its corporate vocabulary!

Why? M-O-N-E-Y. Paramount is presently pushing a multibillion-dollar merger with another entertainment giant to extend its control over our media market, empowering it to gouge more cash from you and me. But the merger had to be okayed by a federal commission headed by an anti-diversity, Trump political hack – so top executives cravenly heaved Paramount’s principles overboard.

This is Jim Hightower saying… That is now what passes for corporate ethics, with smug honchos abandoning all pretense that they’re guided by any higher morality than the love of money.

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