Narrative busted: 'Homophobic' Trump fighting for record anti-HIV funding
The president of the Human Rights Campaign, Alphonso David, has called President Trump the “worst president on LGBTQ issues ever.” Yes, seriously.
But nobody else should take that claim seriously.
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have all echoed this tune, albeit with slightly less extreme language, decrying the Trump administration as supposedly hateful and homophobic. But this narrative has always been wildly exaggerated, and Trump’s new budget proposal puts the lie to it more than ever. Would a homophobic president be fighting for record levels of anti-HIV funding?
That’s what...