Guess What? Trump Probably Can’t Ban Transgender Service Members After All

*********** Excerpted from a (much) longer piece by Michel Paradis for Lawfare In a three-tweet policy announcement Wednesday morning, President Trump promised to institute a ban on transgender service-members. The president claimed that the reason for this change was the need to “focus on decisive and overwhelming victory,” which was apparently made impossible by the “tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.” Senator John McC

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2 thoughts on “Guess What? Trump Probably Can’t Ban Transgender Service Members After All”

Trump’s “authoritarian” actions best describe what must have been and continue to be his concept and expectation of occupying the Office of President of the United States – simply that in other words of him being – “King of the United States.”

And thus “We the People” of these (kinda) United States – find ourselves as being the recipients of a demonstrably failed (the nomination and election of a mentally incompetent President), an even more incompetent for profit election industry system, and a Constitution that never foresaw a Congressional leadership so cowardly and self-interested – that it would not take the necessary actions to correct such an embarrassing endangerment to the US and more importantly prevent this kind of incompetent absurdity from happening in the future – again.