for as long as I have been actively involved in following politics, I have always been able to go up to the White House site and read what a particular president or related says at an event. Sometimes there would also be video or audio but always a transcript.
Well, that apparently stopped in the last couple of weeks.
‘Really irresponsible’: Outrage as White House has disappeared almost every Trump transcript
Maybe the GOP doesn’t want citizens to read how wacko Trump is and see how he is on his way to duplicate his father’s dementia.
West Point kook speech in which he tells the West Point graduates about trophy wives, among other things. This from a guy who was a draft dodger, West Point, of all places, invites felon draft dodgers to speak?
A little DEI related West Point info
West Point has found itself in the center of the DEI-related pushback, especially related to the banning of books and educational programs that the Trump Administration says promote DEI.
In February, West Point disbanded its Society of Black Engineers club as well as multiple other clubs listed under “affinity” groups on the club directory. This followed Trump’s Jan. 20 Executive Order titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” and a Jan. 21 Executive Order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” A subsequent Jan. 29 instruction from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saw the announcement of a new task force.
“I direct the establishment of a multi-functional ‘Restoring America’s Fighting Force’ task force charged with overseeing the Department’s efforts to abolish DEI offices and any vestiges of such offices that subvert meritocracy, perpetuate unconstitutional discrimination, and promote radical ideologies related to systemic racism and gender fluidity,” Hegseth said.
Beyond clubs, West
Point has reportedly purged work by diverse authors from its libraries
and has removed discussions of systemic inequities from its classrooms,
leading a West Point professor to resign, saying: “I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form.”
Trump
addressed his DEI measures during his West Point commencement speech,
saying he has “liberated our troops from divisive and demeaning
political training.”
“There
will be no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody,
forced onto our brave men and women in uniform or on anybody else, for
that matter, in this country,” Trump said. “And promotions and
appointments will not be based on politics or identity. They’ll be based
on merit…We’re a merit-based country again.”
Trump
claimed that his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, “subjected
the armed forces to all manner of social projects”—something he says is
no longer. The President’s speech comes after he and Hegseth have fired multiple senior military officers who were known to endorse DEI efforts. The Trump Administration has also once again banned transgender people from serving in the military and has ordered new physical standard tests
which will require the same standards for both men and women. The
change in requirements to serve in combat roles is expected to
drastically cut the number of women in said roles.
