The remaining 16 members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS were told they were being fired Wednesday, via a FedExed letter from the White House. Six members resigned in June in protest of what they called the Trump administration’s inaction on the issue. Gabriel Maldonado, a PACHA adviser, confirmed the firings, but said the “explanation is still unclear.” “Like any administration, they want their own people there,” Maldonado told the Washington Blade. “Many of us were Obama appointees. I was an Obama appointee and my term was continuing until 2018.” Scott Schoettes, a council member who quit in June (and a senior lawyer for Lambda Legal), called the Trump move a “purge,” tweeting that the White House was “eliminating few remaining people willing to push back against harmful policies, like abstinence-only sex ed.” In September, Trump had renewed PACHA’s brief for another year.
You know one would think that if you wanted to change the personnel in any given agency that you might do it over a period of time so as not to interrupt their work.
To do it like this seems impulsive and a little infantile.
Almost as if Trump simply cannot bear to have any Obama appointees in the government at all.
trump has a real problem with Obama and Hillary. he doesn't want admit that Hillary won the popular- in fact-she should be president. all those illegals voting for her! and Obama is a much loved president-and donny knows he's not. it must really eat away at his ego.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to convince Humpty Trumpty he's NOT the most popular first. HE still believes it. He'll be live it when he is out of there.
DeleteSorry. That last line should read believe, not be live!
DeleteWhen don is removed it will be a clean slate for the "real" United States of America President to fill cabinet positions and agencies. We the people will not have to fire the cockroaches don hired. He might as well let everyone escape now.
ReplyDelete11:27, you mean like Pence? There's NO chance of Hillary being installed! (I'm guessing she is who you spoke of. If not, I apologize.)
DeleteHIV/AIDS. Hmmmmm....intravenous needle sharers, gay men, and blacks. Who needs ‘em.
ReplyDeleteRight, dotard?
I'm sure Trump would like to purge the U.S. (and the world) of all those non-white, non-christian, non-rich people.
DeleteThen who would wait on him hand and foot? Maybe he'll keep a few of the toothless uneducated Deplorables to make the beds and cut the grass.
Check tHIS out: 'The Google News Lab looked at the search trends for some of the biggest news events of Trump's presidency from Jan. 20 through Dec. 20. You can see how we've all jumped from one four-alarm news fire to another:
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Can you say "Wag the Dog"?
DeleteI wonder how many people have died due to trump rigging the election and being a chronic liar and cancer on society?
DeleteAgain he is putting the American people at risk,violating his constitutional oath to protect the citizens of the USA.
ReplyDeleteAdd that to the list of articles of impeachment.
Ah, but Humpty Trumpty would say he IS protecting the American people - by letting "those people" die.
DeleteYou know what keeps the cheeto jeezus up at night? 2011 White House Correspondent's Dinner. You just KNOW he is still steaming about it. He thinks he is enacting some kind of revenge but it is really just a sad commentary on cheeto jeezus himself.
ReplyDeleteI would think they'd (the organizers and majority of the crowd) be happy he will not be in attendance.
DeleteI've always watched the Correspondent's Dinner - throughout President Obama's tenure - and always found it so enjoyable!
Hmmmm Obama was just names most admired man over the orange julius.....any coincidence?
ReplyDeleteThe orange julius is truly infantile....Bannon equating him to an 11-year old is giving him 7 years too much credit.
He needs money to pay for the golfing trip for the Coast Guard at Mar-A-Lago,you don't think Trump is donating the cost of 60 Coast Guard,do you?
ReplyDeleteTrump hasn't donated anything.
DeleteUsually people donate to an organization or are generous with their time or money in some way to get a building named after them.
Trump thinks he's oh, so smart because he has people pay HIM to put his name on buildings.
It's all just so very, very sad.
His names is already being taken off buildings because it lowers their value.
But the Kennedy Center will be the Kennedy Center.
Locally we have Rady Children's Hospital and Copley Symphony Hall. We didn't pay them. We paid tribute to their generosity by putting their names on buildings.
Not so the Dullard.
Poor, poor little man.
Sad.
Sorry, mlaiuppa, but until HE recognizes what we all already recognize, HE won't believe it is sad.
DeleteThe guy is a fucker! Satan is holding the door open for him and it's way past time he accepted the invitation!
ReplyDeleteHe has zero business being in the position he holds...truly Hitler like in his actions and dastardly deeds!
Trump's wife was more susceptible to std in her only known profession:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.latinlife.com/article/2864/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed
https://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/
What do you want to bet they are not replaced.
ReplyDeletePurge is right. And not just appointees in government.
I'm sure Trump would be just fine with everyone with HIV/Aids to just die already, and do it on their own dime. He wants all that government money to himself.
'To do it like this seems impulsive and a little infantile.
ReplyDeleteAlmost as if Trump simply cannot bear to have any Obama appointees in the government at all.'
-What do you mean 'almost as if'? /s
Trumplethinskin better be careful. He's gutting all these agencies that might, just *might*, someday soon be very helpful in dealing with his tertiary syphilis.
My gawd, every day I wake up thinking I cannot hate this rat-bastard any more.
And every day he proves me wrong.
He doesn't have Syphilis.
DeleteHe may have bvFTD. It's genetic and related to Alzheimer's.
There’s an explanation: it’s yet another thing Dumpster can do to ‘undo’ anything President Obama approved.
ReplyDeleteAt least AIDS isn't really a "thing" any longer and people are able to live with the virus but I still suspect a lot of poor drug addicts aren't going to get the expensive drugs they need with the dismantling of this group.
ReplyDeleteOne of the terrible consequences of the IV drug use now rampant in this country is a resurgence of HIV, however it tends to stay within the IV community so a small percentage of people are now killing each other both with drugs and disease.
OMG,i can't even reply to such an ignorant comment.
DeleteBet you aren't concerned about TB either.
I can, 6:00.
DeleteSo, Anonyous 2:38 (too chicken to identify yourself), as long as you don't get it from your husband that has been seeing hookers on the side you're fine? Oh, he had no idea those hookers were IV drug users.
Well, alrighty then.
Then there's the kid with hemophilia that got it from a blood transfusion. Yeah, they check but sometimes, you know, careless. But hey, he is genetically damaged so if he doesn't grow old enough to procreate, no loss there, right?
I'm sure Trump feels HIV/AIDS is just a way to clean the blood lines and ensure the survival of the fittest.
Would that be where you're going with this?
mlauippa
DeleteAfter the hemophilia community was devastated in the 1980s nd the FDA did nothing for a very loooong time, researchers came up with synthetic clotting factors. So, at least in first world countries, they are being spared now.
Sick of this gov't, his next thing should be no more fancy top of the line vehicles for any govt job. I just came accross fancy fancy park ranger fully loaded truck. Stop the money.
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