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Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” email series that serves to remind
us of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we encountered
during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others in the MAGA
movement still pose – and to keep those moments clear in our memory as we
fight to defeat Republican extremists during the upcoming elections.

This week’s Trumptastrophe focuses on former President Trump’s attacks on
the LGBTQ community:

On July 26, 2017, the Trump Justice Department [ [link removed] ]filed a brief in the 2nd
Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not
protect people against job discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation or gender identity. On the very same day, Trump [ [link removed] ]announced
via Twitter that his administration would “not accept or allow Transgender
individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military.”

The anti-equality one-two punch made it clear that the [ [link removed] ]ridiculous
campaign claims by some of Trump’s allies that he would be the most
pro-gay president in history were [ [link removed] ]utterly false. The administration
sacrificed the rights of LGBTQ people, and the careers of trans
servicemembers, in order to satisfy the demands of the religious-right
base whose turnout and overwhelming support put Trump into the White
House.

The military ban announcement also demonstrated Trump’s reckless habit of
making and announcing policies by tweet, catching both military and
congressional leaders off-guard. Sen. John McCain, well known as a veteran
and survivor of brutal treatment as a prisoner of war, criticized the
discriminatory policy, saying, “Any American who meets current medical and
readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving. There is no
reason to force service members who are able to fight, train and deploy to
leave the military — regardless of their gender identity.”

The Justice Department amicus brief arguing against anti-discrimination
protections for LGBTQ workers [ [link removed] ]reversed positions taken by the Justice
Department under President Barack Obama and by the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission. The case in question made it to the Supreme Court
in 2019, when the Trump administration again [ [link removed] ]filed a brief arguing that
federal civil rights law does not protect gay people from discrimination
on the job.

At the end of Trump’s first year, Right Wing Watch [ [link removed] ]took stock of his
“terrible anti-LGBTQ first year”:

Many LGBTQ people have been or will be harmed by broad-based Trump-GOP
policies, like the tax bill and its assault on the Affordable Care Act,
that also affect millions of non-LGBTQ Americans. But LGBTQ Americans
are also facing very focused attacks from the Trump administration.
That’s why NBC called Trump’s first 100 days [ [link removed] ]“fear-inducing” for
LGBTQ Americans. And by mid-year, German Lopez at Vox was calling
Trump’s campaign promises to the LGBTQ community “[ [link removed] ]total bullshit” and
Luke Darby at GQ was calling the administration “[ [link removed] ]a disaster for LGBT
Americans.” The Human Rights Campaign’s Sarah McBride went even further,
[ [link removed] ]writing in Cosmopolitan that the Trump administration has “revealed
itself to be the ugliest, most explicitly anti-LGBTQ presidency in U.S.
history.” Journalist Michelangelo Signorile [ [link removed] ]seconded that emotion in
September.

Trump also appointed religious-right activist Roger Severino, who a dozen
U.S. senators described as having “a long history of making bigoted
statements toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people,” as head
of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human
Services.

When the gay conservative Trump sycophants at the Log Cabin
Republicans—who endorsed Trump for reelection in 2020—[ [link removed] ]promoted a video
claiming that Donald Trump was “the most pro-gay president in American
history”— The Washington Post’s fact-checker dubbed it an “absurd claim”
and gave it [ [link removed] ]four Pinocchios.

The administration’s anti-equality moves were part of a pattern of
reversing and rolling back civil and human rights protections that began
as soon as Trump was sworn in and continued throughout his administration,
which has been [ [link removed] ]documented by the Leadership Conference on Civil and
Human Rights.

A second Trump administration would be no different, based on the
anti-equality and [ [link removed] ]anti-civil-rights plans that have been put in place
by the Trump aides and allies who wrote [ [link removed] ]the Project 2025 playbook. In
[ [link removed] ]contrast to the Trump administration’s actions, the Obama-Biden and
Biden-Harris administrations made the protection of LGBTQ human rights a
priority both domestically and internationally.

These are just some of the reasons we need YOU in this
fight. So, find your
favorite way to unwind after reading through this week’s recap, and then
make a plan for how you will fight back this week, this month, this
election cycle.

For members who are interested in sharing the weekly Trumptastrophe
series, [ [link removed] ]you can find all previous editions on our website! This post
will be published by Thursday so you can share with your friends and
family and remind them of the importance of ensuring that Trump is
defeated again this November.

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Thanks for all that you do to defeat Republican extremism.

– People For the American Way

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