India, March 5 -- Donald Trump, during his address in a joint session of the Congress, launched repeated attacks on 'wokeism'. He reiterated that the United States will no longer will be a "woke" country as he said that hirings will be done on the basis of competency and skills and not race or gender.

"We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant or an air traffic controller, you should be hired on the basis of skill and competence, not race or gender," Trump said during the address.

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The term woke means being "aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality," according to the Cambridge dictionary.

The Oxford English dictionary describes 'woke' as bein...