Trump Drops Another Magnificent Diversion, Bans Transgenders From The Military

Donald Trump is so good with manipulating and controlling the media it’s INSANE. Just pulls the old, “What’s that? Everyone’s freaking out about healthcare? And Russia? And Sessions? Here I’ll lob out this giant internet outrage meatball about transgenders in the military. We’ll watch ‘em eat that one up, suppressing the appetite for all that other juicy shit.”

…and it works!

Understandably so it works. The media can’t ignore this move by the President, so they have to commit time and resources to it (which takes away from that time and resources being committed to the other headline issues). And the transgender community doesn’t have the political clout to stand up to this decision. It pincers everybody.

You think Donald Trump gives a flying fuck whether transgenders can serve in the military or not? Of course he doesn’t. He simply looked around for something relatively minor that would FIRE up the outrage machine and distract the media, and brought that issue to the forefront — out of basically NOWHERE — to divert the heat he’s getting.

Oh and he did it with a nice little 8-minute cliffhanger.

Always the showman. Always.

PS — How do I feel about the actual transgender policy at hand here? We’ve got multiple folks on staff who can speak much better to it than I.