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Behind the Aegis

(53,951 posts)
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 09:55 PM Nov 2019

Here are all the times the Trump administration has attacked LGBTQ rights since he became President

Keeping a running track of the Trump administration’s attacks on the LGBTQ community is about like counting the number of lies he tells. It’s a thankless job, but someone has to do it.

Thankfully, our friends at GLAAD run the Trump Accountability Project, and they have kept a tally of the nonstop barrage on the community’s civil rights. From erasing our issues from federal websites minutes after being inaugurated to allowing healthcare providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people, it’s all on the list.

And, of course, we’ve been here reporting it all for you. And we’ll continue to monitor the situation with our partners at GLAAD until Trump finally leaves office – and update this list as necessary.

THE LIST

January 20, 2017- Minutes after Donald Trump was sworn into office, any mention of the LGBTQ community was erased from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites.

PAY ATTENTION!

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Here are all the times the Trump administration has attacked LGBTQ rights since he became President (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Nov 2019 OP
K and R nt Stuart G Nov 2019 #1
F, mike pence, trump and his idiot daughter and son-in-law Miigwech Nov 2019 #2
Horrifying. JohnnyLib2 Nov 2019 #3
Holy cow! Asshole. coeur_de_lion Nov 2019 #4
Here is a military related list of things Trump has done to weaken our Armed Forces dustyscamp Nov 2019 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author dewsgirl Nov 2019 #6
Oh no I didn't make it and I haven't shared it on twitter yet dustyscamp Nov 2019 #7
He has done so much damage to almost every aspect of life.😳 dewsgirl Nov 2019 #8
"I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms & beliefs NCLefty Nov 2019 #9
K&R ismnotwasm Nov 2019 #10
Kicking for those that may have missed this. Horrifying. dewsgirl Nov 2019 #11
. BuffaloJackalope Nov 2019 #12
Contact Milo K's twinks for tRump. Mc Mike Nov 2019 #13
Yes. Agreed on all counts. ArtTownsend Nov 2019 #15
I still remember when they trotted out Peter Theil to say that Trump would be the most pro-LGBTQ ArtTownsend Nov 2019 #14

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
5. Here is a military related list of things Trump has done to weaken our Armed Forces
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 11:47 PM
Nov 2019

✓ Nov. 15 Trump reverses war criminal Eddie Gallagher's demotion, restores his rank and pay to chief petty officer.

✓ On August 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall

✓ On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuting war criminals

✓ In July 2019, Trump denied a United States Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his scheduled citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)

✓ Makes the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign (July 4, 2019)

✓ Demands US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)

✓ Uses his D-Day interview at cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)

✓ Starts his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)

✓ Made 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported on June 4th, 2019)

✓ Turns away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain (May 27, 2019)

✓ Orders the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)

✓ Pardons war criminals (May, 2019)

✓ Purges 200,000 veterans healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment process and enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)

✓ Deports spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)

✓ Complains a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral (March 20, 2019)

✓ Diverts military housing funds to pay for border wall (Feb 15, 2019)

✓ refuses to sign his party's funding bill, which shuts down the government, and forces a branch of the military to go without pay (but his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise). This branch of military is forced to work without pay, otherwise they are AWOL (Dec 22, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019)

✓ doesn't pay the Coast Guard, forcing service members to rely on food pantries (Jan 23, 2019)

✓ bans service members from serving based on gender identity (Jan 22, 2019)

✓ denies female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)

✓ tries to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)

✓ when a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1. As a reminder, the Trump administration's goal was to dismantle the CFPB, installing Mick Mulvaney as the director, who publicly stated the bureau should be disbanded. (Jan 26, 2019)

✓ calls a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)

✓ increases privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)

✓ finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)

✓ reveals covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)

✓ lies to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise. He didn't give them a 10% raise (Dec 26, 2018)

✓ fires service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays (Dec 19, 2018-present)

✓ gets three Mar-a-Lago guests to run the VA (unknown start - present, made well-known in 2018)

✓ calls troops on Thanksgiving and tells them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)

✓ urges Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)

✓ cancels Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to the rain (Nov 12, 2018)

✓ doesn't visit US cemetery marking the end of WWI due to the rain (but other world leaders go anyway) (Nov 10, 2018)

✓ stops using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, troops remain in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)

✓ uses troops as a political prop and sends troops on a phantom mission to the border and makes them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)

✓ doesn't pay veterans' VA benefits (made public Oct 2018)

✓ doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)

✓ deports active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)

✓ forgets a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacks her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)

✓ sends commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)

✓ blocks a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)

✓ discharges active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)

✓ deports veterans (2017-present)

✓ says he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)

✓ says vets get PTSD because they aren't strong (Oct 3, 2016) (note: yes, he said it's 'because they aren't strong.' He didn't say it's 'because they're weak.' This distinction is important because of Snopes)

✓ accepts a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and says: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)

✓ attacks Gold Star families (2016-present. Myeshia Johnson--gold star widow, Khan family--gold star parents, etc)

✓ sends funds raised from a January 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)

✓ says he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught (July 18, 2015)

✓ says having unprotected sex was like Vietnam (1998)

✓ for a decade, sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. “While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” - 1991

✓ dodges the draft 5 times

Thanks to victorvictor1 on reddit for making this list

Response to dustyscamp (Reply #5)

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
7. Oh no I didn't make it and I haven't shared it on twitter yet
Thu Nov 28, 2019, 12:23 AM
Nov 2019

I think victorvictor1 was the one who first compiled this list, but I'm not 100% sure

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
13. Contact Milo K's twinks for tRump.
Thu Nov 28, 2019, 12:15 PM
Nov 2019

I remember when tRump talked about 'our beautiful gays' after the Pulse mass shooting. But he only used 'how much he loved gays' as a way to attack Moslems. Then he and all his repug anti-gay 'christian' flunkies went to Orlando for a big anti-LGBT event, 2 months later.

When he says something that indicates he loves someone or has good or moral motivations for anything he's doing, it's a key tell that he's lying and doesn't give a shit about what he's blabbering away about.

 

ArtTownsend

(439 posts)
14. I still remember when they trotted out Peter Theil to say that Trump would be the most pro-LGBTQ
Thu Nov 28, 2019, 12:36 PM
Nov 2019

President ever.

Pay no attention to the Mike Pence behind the curtain - to name one among many examples.

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