Our "President" actually made an announcement:
It's worth noting the Trump administration's attitude toward the LGBT community, as reflected in its policy moves:
The comparison with Obama is going to annoy him enough, especially since it seems to hit a very sensitive spot -- why else devote so much effort to undoing everything the Obama administration did? But contrast his proclamation with this:
The contrast is staggering. I mean, can you imagine Donald Trump actually shaking hands with someone who's HIV+?
I guess this only points up the fact that real leaders care about people. Donald Trump doesn't.
In a signed statement on the White House website, President Trump has said: “Today, on World AIDS Day, we honor those who have lost their lives to AIDS, we celebrate the remarkable progress we have made in combatting this disease, and we reaffirm our ongoing commitment to end AIDS as a public health threat.”
Trump continued: “Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, more than 76 million people around the world have become infected with HIV and 35 million have died from AIDS.
“As of 2014, 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV. On this day, we pray for all those living with HIV, and those who have lost loved ones to AIDS
This statement stands in comparison to President Obama’s final World AIDS Day address where he urged then President-elect Trump to maintain HIV/AIDS prevention work and highlighted the impact of HIV on the LGBT+ community.
It's worth noting the Trump administration's attitude toward the LGBT community, as reflected in its policy moves:
Since election day, Trump has removed rights for trans kids, banned trans soldiers from the military, appointed an anti-LGBT Supreme Court justice, endorsed a Republican who wants to make homosexuality illegal, hired an Army Secretary who says trans people are diseased, proposed slashing HIV AIDS funding, signed an order permitting anti-LGBT discrimination at work, removed opposition to North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom bill, addressed a recognised hate group gathering and refused to acknowledge LGBT History Month.
The comparison with Obama is going to annoy him enough, especially since it seems to hit a very sensitive spot -- why else devote so much effort to undoing everything the Obama administration did? But contrast his proclamation with this:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended a World AIDS Day event today in their first joint royal engagement.(That garbled bit is theirs, not mine.)
The newly-engaged royal couple travelled to Nottingham to attend the #SeeRed event, which was organised by HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
The pair were photographed sporting red World AIDS Day ribbons as they spoke to the crowd.
Prince Harry said: “We mustn’t be complacent. We’ve got everything here: all the equipment, all the testing ability.
"We owe it to this generation to be able to eradicate this once and for all.”
The Prince, a passionate advocate on HIV/AIDS issues, spoke to people living with HIV as well as sexual health campaigners.
Andrew Bates, a gay man living with HIV who met the Prince at the launch of HIV testing week last month, was able to he spoke to the Prince about coming out.
The contrast is staggering. I mean, can you imagine Donald Trump actually shaking hands with someone who's HIV+?
I guess this only points up the fact that real leaders care about people. Donald Trump doesn't.
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