U.S. Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth speaks with the media throughout his first official arrival on the Pentagon as Secretary in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2025. | Supply: SAUL LOEB / Getty
President Donald Trump wasted no time proving that his administration might be one which ushers in a “golden age” of bigotry, white nationalism and right-wing propaganda being cast into coverage. In response to CNN, on Monday, Trump is about to signal three govt orders that will reshape the U.S. army by stamping out, nicely, principally any and every part MAGA Republicans think about “woke.” (*gestures extensively in the direction of no matter makes white and exhaustingly fragile conservatives uncomfortable*)
The orders are set to return days after Trump’s choose for secretary of protection, Pete Hegseth — the Military veteran and former Fox Information host with no earlier historical past in nationwide protection — was confirmed regardless of allegations that he abused ladies and alcohol and Pentagon officers’ considerations over his lack of expertise. Mockingly, Hegseth has mentioned eliminating DEI from the army is a high precedence. (Perhaps, simply perhaps, a nation the place the unqualified get to determine who’s certified isn’t the best nation on the earth.)
Hegseth’s and Trump’s haste to blindly rid the army of DEI applications had already resulted within the Air Pressure eradicating movies that taught personnel in regards to the Tuskegee Airmen and the Girls Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, which it confirmed it did as a way to “absolutely execute and implement all directives outlined within the Govt Orders issued by the President, guaranteeing that they’re carried out with utmost professionalism, effectivity and in alignment with nationwide safety targets.” The Air Pressure added the Tuskeegee airmen again to the curriculum following a large outpouring of shock. It’s unclear if the WASP lesson has additionally been reinstated. The movies have been eradicated as a result of they have been a part of a variety coaching, which the outdated white occasion’s new king and his reverse-DEI protection secretary deem wasteful.
It’s price mentioning that Trump’s anti-DEI govt orders do greater than remove initiatives that carry extra alternative to ladies and folks of coloration, in addition they harm the setting and poor, rural communities, which, by the best way, signify an enormous chunk of his voter base.
From CNN:
However Trump’s Monday order additionally took goal at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on tasks, together with these geared toward poor, rural communities.
Grants accepted and into account by the Federal Emergency Administration Company present tasks from Alaska to Florida, many focused at serving to small communities. They embrace:
$23m for a brand new wastewater therapy plant in DePue, Illinois, the place heavy rains have brought on sewage backup in folks’s basements;
$5.4m to improve the wastewater facility in Hickory, North Carolina, to guard it from floods — as have been seen when Hurricane Helene ravaged mountain communities; and
$2.5m for a protected room for college kids and workers in Danville, Arkansas, an economically deprived rural group with no faculty twister shelter, in a county the place a lethal historic long-track twister spawned in 2008.Lots of the plans have been helped by the Justice40 initiative of former President Joe Biden, which ensured 40% of federal spending on local weather and clear vitality applications flowed to deprived communities. Billions of {dollars}, largely by way of Biden’s Inflation Discount Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation, have introduced photo voltaic to tribal lands, paid for electrical faculty buses to switch gas-powered autos, and funded native teams to scrub up their pollution-burdened communities.
However, hey, who cares in regards to the planet we reside on and the poor MAGA individuals who thought they have been voting of their finest curiosity when there’s necessary, top-priority work to be accomplished in protection of this nice nation like — *checks notes* — banning trans folks from the army.
Extra from CNN:
Trump had banned transgender Individuals type serving within the army in 2017 throughout his first administration, however then-President Joe Biden issued an order in 2021 repealing the ban.
Hours after being sworn in for his second time period final week, Trump signed an order revoking the Biden administration’s 2021 transfer to permit transgender members to serve. Nonetheless, the order Trump is predicted to signal on Monday goes even additional, one of many officers mentioned, and can define new army requirements relating to gender pronouns and state that psychological and bodily readiness requires transgender service members be banned from the army.
“It may possibly take a minimal of 12 months for a person to finish remedies after transition surgical procedure, which regularly entails using heavy narcotics. Throughout this era, they don’t seem to be bodily able to assembly army readiness necessities and require ongoing medical care. This isn’t conducive for deployment or different readiness necessities,” one of many officers mentioned, citing a truth sheet.
“The implementation [of the ban] is on the DoD relating to specifics,” the official mentioned. In 2018, there have been an estimated 14,000 transgender service members within the US army, in accordance with the Palm Middle, an impartial analysis institute that has carried out intensive analysis on sexual minorities within the army.
Barring a whole demographic from serving within the army as a result of their hypothetical surgical procedures would possibly hypothetically take too lengthy is a hell of a method to say: Yeah, we’re raging bigots over right here, and beneath Trump, our justifications don’t actually must be believable. MAGA!
So, one govt order to ban variety into oblivion, one order to ban trans individuals who want to serve their nation — so, what’s the third?
Ahh sure — whereas trans folks and individuals who train variety are getting the boot, Trump’s third govt order directs Hegseth to reinstate all energetic and reserve service members who have been beforehand discharged for failing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (We have been so targeted on the anti-trans bigotry and the delusional “anti-white racism” propaganda, we nearly forgot in regards to the MAGA-fied rejection of medical science.)
For the document, “the Pentagon had already rescinded the army’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate permitting them to rejoin after Biden signed the 2023 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act requiring the change,” CNN reported. (However, see, if Trump doesn’t signal an order to do what had already been accomplished, how will he take credit score for it?)
Yeah — it’s going to be a protracted 4 years, y’all. That is America on MAGA steroids.
SEE ALSO:
Trump’s Protection Secretary Decide, Pete Hegseth, Is A Hardcore Advocate For Restoring Accomplice Honors
Conservatives Are Full Of It When It Comes To DEI And Pete Hegseth Is Proof
Trump To Signal Govt Orders Banning DEI And Trans Individuals From Army Whereas Reinstating Anti-Vaxxers
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