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 cast into coverage. In keeping with CNN, on Monday, Trump is about to signal three government orders that might reshape the U.S. army by stamping out, nicely, principally any and every little thing MAGA Republicans take into account “woke.” (*gestures extensively in direction of no matter makes white and exhaustingly fragile conservatives uncomfortable*)
The orders are set to come back 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 girls and alcohol and Pentagon officers’ issues over his lack of expertise. Paradoxically, Hegseth has stated eliminating DEI from the army is a high precedence. (Perhaps, simply possibly, a nation the place the unqualified get to resolve who’s certified isn’t the best nation on this planet.)
Hegseth’s and Trump’s haste to blindly rid the army of DEI packages 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 so as to “totally 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 aims.” The Air Pressure added the Tuskeegee airmen again to the curriculum following an enormous 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 occasion’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 eradicate initiatives that convey extra alternative to girls and other people of shade, in addition they damage the setting and poor, rural communities, which, by the best way, signify an enormous chunk of his voter base.
However Trump’s Monday order additionally took intention at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on tasks, together with these geared toward poor, rural communities.
Grants accredited 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 remedy 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 kids and workers 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 vitality packages flowed to deprived communities. Billions of {dollars}, largely by way of Biden’s Inflation Discount Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation, have introduced photo voltaic to tribal lands, paid for electrical faculty buses to exchange gas-powered autos, and funded native teams to scrub up their pollution-burdened communities.
However, hey, who cares in regards to the planet we stay 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 completed in protection of this nice nation like — *checks notes* — banning trans individuals from the army.
Extra from CNN:
Trump had banned transgender People kind 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. Nevertheless, the order Trump is anticipated to signal on Monday goes even additional, one of many officers stated, and can define new army requirements concerning gender pronouns and state that psychological and bodily readiness requires transgender service members be banned from the army.
“It could possibly take a minimal of 12 months for a person to finish therapies after transition surgical procedure, which regularly includes using heavy narcotics. Throughout this era, they aren’t 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 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 army, in line with the Palm Heart, an impartial analysis institute that has performed intensive analysis on sexual minorities within the army.
Barring a complete demographic from serving within the army as a result of their hypothetical surgical procedures may hypothetically take too lengthy is a hell of a method to say: Yeah, we’re raging bigots over right here, and underneath Trump, our justifications don’t actually should 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 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 completed, 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.
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