Well today The Donald has withered away another campaign promise as he rolled out the following three tweets:Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2016
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow......— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
....victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
Just in case Trump has a hard time understanding, this is what LGBT stands for:
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
It does not stand for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trump!
He is cutting Trans people out of the military because of medical costs. It should be noted that there are other things that the military spend on their soldiers that cost more than surgeries for transgender soldiers including...
BONER PILLS!!! Yes, if you do your research, erection pills such as Viagra and Cialis are used for more than just helping men get stiff, they can be used to help keep decent blood flow in high altitude. Lets look at a comparison:The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops’ medical care... #JustSayin https://t.co/ie0Y8R7uGD— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 26, 2017
A combined $63.4 Million is spent by the US military on hard-on medicine while only $8.4 Million was spent on healthcare for 5,000-15,000 trans soldiers.Viagra: $41,600,000— DSA Queer Socialists (@QueerDSA) July 26, 2017
Cialis: $22,800,000
F-35: $1,450,000,000,000
Trans healthcare: $8,400,000
Someone help me budget this my empire is dying
Besides being another broken campaign promise, this has to be another bold attempt for Trump to keep what little support he has from Republican voters. With his support in the lower 30's it will only continue to keep his hardcore base (mainly the alt-Right, Christian-in-name-only supporters) happy, but it has not received a lot of support elsewhere, especially with Caitlyn Jenner:
Jenner did vote for Trump which was one of the very few transgender people to do so and now she feels betrayed that Trump would pull such a card. This is a man that has been known for decades as a cutthroat businessman so this had to be expected.There are 15,000 patriotic transgender Americans in the US military fighting for all of us. What happened to your promise to fight for them? https://t.co/WzjypVC8Sr— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) July 26, 2017
Trump is pulling some sort of strings right now, and it's going everywhere except the direction he wants: forward.
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