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 will likely be one which ushers in a “golden age” of bigotry, white nationalism and right-wing propaganda being solid into coverage. In line with CNN, on Monday, Trump is about to signal three government orders that might reshape the U.S. navy by stamping out, properly, principally any and all the pieces MAGA Republicans contemplate “woke.” (*gestures broadly in the direction of no matter makes white and exhaustingly fragile conservatives uncomfortable*)
The orders are set to return days after Trump’s decide 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 stated eliminating DEI from the navy is a prime precedence. (Perhaps, simply perhaps, a nation the place the unqualified get to resolve who’s certified isn’t the best nation on the earth.)
Hegseth’s and Trump’s haste to blindly rid the navy of DEI packages had already resulted within the Air Pressure eradicating movies that taught personnel in regards to the Tuskegee Airmen and the Ladies Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, which it confirmed it did as a way to “absolutely execute and implement all directives outlined within the Government Orders issued by the President, making certain that they’re carried out with utmost professionalism, effectivity and in alignment with nationwide safety goals.” 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 had been eradicated as a result of they had been a part of a range coaching, which the previous white social gathering’s new king and his reverse-DEI protection secretary deem wasteful.
It’s price mentioning that Trump’s anti-DEI government orders do greater than remove initiatives that convey extra alternative to ladies and folks of coloration, additionally they damage the setting and poor, rural communities, which, by the way in which, signify an enormous chunk of his voter base.
However Trump’s Monday order additionally took goal at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on initiatives, together with these aimed toward poor, rural communities.
Grants permitted and into account by the Federal Emergency Administration Company present initiatives from Alaska to Florida, many focused at serving to small communities. They embody:
- $23m for a brand new wastewater therapy plant in DePue, Illinois, the place heavy rains have induced sewage backup in individuals’s basements;
- $5.4m to improve the wastewater facility in Hickory, North Carolina, to guard it from floods — as had been seen when Hurricane Helene ravaged mountain communities; and
- $2.5m for a protected room for college students and employees in Danville, Arkansas, an economically deprived rural neighborhood with no faculty twister shelter, in a county the place a lethal historic long-track twister spawned in 2008.
Most of the plans had been helped by the Justice40 initiative of former President Joe Biden, which ensured 40% of federal spending on local weather and clear power packages flowed to deprived communities. Billions of {dollars}, largely via Biden’s Inflation Discount Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation, have introduced photo voltaic to tribal lands, paid for electrical faculty buses to interchange 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 had been voting of their greatest curiosity when there’s essential, top-priority work to be performed in protection of this nice nation like — *checks notes* — banning trans individuals from the navy.
Extra from CNN:
Trump had banned transgender Individuals kind serving within the navy 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. Nevertheless, the order Trump is predicted to signal on Monday goes even additional, one of many officers stated, and can define new navy requirements concerning gender pronouns and state that psychological and bodily readiness requires transgender service members be banned from the navy.
“It may well take a minimal of 12 months for a person to finish therapies after transition surgical procedure, which regularly includes the usage of heavy narcotics. Throughout this era, they aren’t bodily able to assembly navy readiness necessities and require ongoing medical care. This isn’t conducive for deployment or different readiness necessities,” one of many officers stated, citing a reality sheet.
“The implementation [of the ban] is on the DoD concerning specifics,” the official stated. In 2018, there have been an estimated 14,000 transgender service members within the US navy, in keeping with the Palm Heart, an impartial analysis institute that has performed intensive analysis on sexual minorities within the navy.
Barring a complete demographic from serving within the navy as a result of their hypothetical surgical procedures may hypothetically take too lengthy is a hell of a solution to say: Yeah, we’re raging bigots over right here, and below Trump, our justifications don’t actually have to be believable. MAGA!
So, one government order to ban range into oblivion, one order to ban trans individuals who want to serve their nation — so, what’s the third?
Ahh sure — whereas trans individuals and individuals who educate range are getting the boot, Trump’s third government order directs Hegseth to reinstate all energetic and reserve service members who had been beforehand discharged for failing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (We had been so centered 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 file, “the Pentagon had already rescinded the navy’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 performed, how will he take credit score for it?)
Yeah — it’s going to be an extended 4 years, y’all. That is America on MAGA steroids.
SEE ALSO:
Conservatives Are Full Of It When It Comes To DEI And Pete Hegseth Is Proof
Trump To Signal Government Orders Banning DEI And Trans Individuals From Navy Whereas Reinstating Anti-Vaxxers
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