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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump is going to leave President Obama's lgbtq directives in place.
WASHINGTON The White House said on Monday that President Trump would leave in place a 2014 Obama administration order that created new workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
In a statement issued in response to growing questions about whether Mr. Trump would reverse the Obama order, the White House said the president was proud to embrace gay rights.
President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of L.G.B.T.Q. rights, just as he was throughout the election, the statement said. The president is proud to have been the first ever G.O.P. nominee to mention the L.G.B.T.Q. community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/politics/obama-trump-protections-lgbt-workers.html?_r=0
In a statement issued in response to growing questions about whether Mr. Trump would reverse the Obama order, the White House said the president was proud to embrace gay rights.
President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of L.G.B.T.Q. rights, just as he was throughout the election, the statement said. The president is proud to have been the first ever G.O.P. nominee to mention the L.G.B.T.Q. community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/politics/obama-trump-protections-lgbt-workers.html?_r=0
Thank goodness.
It's odd that he found one vulnerable group he can empathize with or give the appearance of empathizing with. I have read a lot about Putin. He is capable of all kinds of bigotry but he seems immune from the anti-semitism that characterized many of his predecessors in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
It seems even a dictator or wannabe dictator can find one vulnerable group to empathize with.
He is likely tying to create fissures in the Democratic base and not to appear totally declasse in the eyes of his rich New York pals.
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So Trump is going to leave President Obama's lgbtq directives in place. (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2017
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Rump is playing to an audience and that audience is virulently racist, homophobic
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2017
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)1. Play action fake.
They set up one false possibility of an action to throw us off guard as to whatever other outrageous action they have planned.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)2. He has his religious freedom EO coming out soon.
That'll clear up any confusion over Trump empathizing with any vulnerable group here.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)3. Rump is playing to an audience and that audience is virulently racist, homophobic
assholes, all white and mostly men but lots of women unfortunately.
He wants to give them everything they want, which would be to take all rights away from everyone who is not a white/christian/str8t/male, leaving the rights of the women up to each male.
That is what Bannon and Trump want and are working toward, Pence also, but they seem to be willing to slow down on certain groups.
But make no mistake, they HATE gay and trans.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)4. There is some discussion in another thread that Trump is gay
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)5. Interesting
Things got pretty weird at Plato's Retreat.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)6. Crossed swords?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)7. Wait 24 hours. remember, he is a compulsive liar. n/t