Hurricane Trump hits America: President deletes gay rights, other laws scrapped as Taliban threaten US

By Osahon Ibizugbe
Emerging reports suggests
that Donald Trump’s new administration has
deleted some of Barack Obama’s pet policies from
the White House website.
Daily Mail reports that deleted from the website
were the phrases ‘LGBT’ rights and ‘climate
change.’
Chicago Tribune reports that The issues page of
Trump’s White House offered no new plans or
policies but rather a rehash of many of his most
prominent campaign promises – a signal to the
nation that Trump, more pragmatic than
ideological, plans to implement at least the key
guideposts of his campaign vision.
His policies include plans to both withdraw from
and renegotiate major trade deals, grow the
nation’s military and increase cyber-security
capabilities, build a wall at the nation’s southern
border and deport undocumented immigrants who
have committed violent crimes.
Several social issues disappeared from the
WhiteHouse.gov site Friday, including a page
dedicated to LGBT rights. A report on the Labor
Department’s website on LGBT workers rights was
also removed.
Advocates for the LGBT community have worried
about what a Trump administration would mean for
the progress made on equality issues under
President Obama. As a candidate, President Trump
said he is opposed to gay marriage and Vice
President Pence has taken strong anti-gay rights
stances throughout his political career and while
it’s standard for the new administration to update
the White House’s official website with its agenda
as part of the transition it is notable that the
Trump administration did not choose to include
anything about the LGBT community.