U.S. DEFENSE
SECRETARY JIM MATTIS HAS STATED THAT THOSE WHO ARE OPENLY
SERVING AS TRANSGENDER IN THE MILITARY CAN CONTINUE SERVING
PENDING A STUDY TO SEE WHAT THE IMPACT WOULD BE TO BAN THEM.
THERE WILL BE A PANEL INVOLVED AND ACCORDING TO WHAT MATTIS
HAS
TO SAY:
KEEP IN MIND DONALD TRUMP TWEETED RANDOMLY OUT OF NOWHERE
THAT HE INTENDED ON BANNING TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS FROM
SERVING IN THE MILITARY.
THERE WERE NO DETAILS, IT WASN'T A
WELL-THOUGHT-OUT PLAN.
THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WAS CAUGHT
OFF GUARD BY
THOSE TWEETS.
IT SEEMS LIKE MATTIS IS STANDING UP FOR OUR TRANSGENDER
MILITARY SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN.
I DIDN'T EXPECT THIM TO BE THE
VOICE OF REASON BUT I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE.
NOT A LOT OF VOICE OF REASON IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
LET ME CLARIFY.
I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THE PRESS REPORTING THIS
IS SAYING MATTIS IS DISAGREEING WITH TRUMP.
THERE IS A CHANCE
THAT HE WILL BUT AT THIS POINT, WHEN TRUMP FIRST TWEETED ABOUT
THIS, THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND MATTIS WERE LIKE,
WE
WERE NOT CONSULTED AND NO ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN SO WE'RE NOT
GOING TO IMPLEMENT THIS.
CLEARLY SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE SAYING WE
DISAGREE.
THAT IS WHERE THAT COMES FROM.
I GET THE SENSE, AS ANA
DOES, THEY DO DISAGREE.
HAVING SAID THAT, THEIR ACTS ARE NOT
SHOWING THAT.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS THERE ARE THREE
DIFFERENT LAYERS TO THIS.
TRUMP'S TWEET MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
IN THIS CASE YOU CAN DO A PARDON THROUGH A TWEET, IT'S
UNBELIEVABLE.
YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO
GO THROUGH A PROCEDURE WHICH TRUMP DID NOT FOLLOW IN THIS
CASE BUT FOR THINGS THAT APPLY TO THE MILITARY, YOU MUST GO
THROUGH A PROCESS.
YOU CANNOT JUST TWEET IT.
THEY'RE LIKE, WE
NEVER HEARD OF THIS AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACT TO IT.
SECOND
STEP IS TRUMP ACTUALLY GIVING AN ORDER WHICH HE DID FRIDAY.
NOW
WE HAVE SOMETHING IN MOTION.
AND THEN THE DEFENSE
SECRETARY HAS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO APPLY IT.
IF MATTIS WAS
ALIGNED WITH TRUMP'S COMMAND WE WOULD HAVE SAID WE'RE
DEFINITELY GOING TO
GET RID OF THOSE FOLKS.
WE JUST HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW.
WE WILL
GET BACK TO YOU WITH A STRATEGY.
INSTEAD HE'S COMING OUT SAYING,
NO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO DISRUPT THE FORCES WHICH IS BY THE WAY
THE LOGICAL THING TO DO AND WE'RE GOING TO LET THOSE FOLKS
SERVE FOR NOW.
THEN WE WILL COME UP WITH THE PARTICULARS OF THE POLICY
AND IMPLEMENTED.
EXACTLY AND KEEP IN MIND THERE ARE BETWEEN 4000 TO 10,000
MEMBERS OF OUR MILITARY WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER SO JUST
BANING THEM IN GETTING RID OF THEM WOULD BE A REALLY DUMB IDEA
ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE FACT YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THOSE PEOPLE
WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NOT BANNED OR DEEMED BANNED BY
TRUMP.
WE HAVE TO RETRAIN THOSE PEOPLE.
IT TAKES A
CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES.
THIS IS ALL JUST A DUMB IDEA
THAT PANDERS TO TRUMP'S BASE WHICH WAS GROWING INCREASINGLY
FRUSTRATED WITH THE FACT THAT THERE WERE NO LEGISLATIVE WINS.
HEALTHCARE HAD JUST FAILED, THE REPEAL AND REPLACE OF THE
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT HAD JUST FAILED AND SO TRUMP IS LIKE I
DON'T KNOW, HOW CAN I PANDER TO MY BASE?
LETíS BAN THE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE FROM OUR MILITARY.
UNFORTUNATELY, FOR HIS BASE IT WILL PROBABLY WORK.
FIRST OF ALL,
THINK ABOUT HOW BADLY THEY HAVE TREATED THESE PEOPLE WHO OFFERED
TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY.
OBAMA SAID IT IS OKAY,
YOU CAN SERVE IN THE MILITARY, SO A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
TRANSGENDER CAME OUT AND SAID OKAY, I AM TRANSGENDER.
AND
THEN TRUMP COMES IN AND SAYS JUST KIDDING.
NOW THAT YOU OUTED
YOURSELF, WE ARE GOING TO THROW YOU OUT OF THE MILITARY.
MATTIS
IS DOING THE RIGHT THING BY SAYING WAIT, LET'S FIGURE THIS
THING OUT AND SECOND OF ALL, TO ANA'S POINT, ACCORDING TO ONE
STUDY ITíLL COST A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS TO KICK THEM OUT
AND RECRUIT NEW PEOPLE, TRAIN THEM, ETC.
IT COSTS AS A MOST
10 TIMES AS MUCH.
TRUMP CLAIMED IT WAS GOING TO SAVE US MONEY.
IS HIS BASE GOING TO HEAR ANY OF THOSE FINER POINTS?
KNOW.
ALL THEY ARE GOING TO HEAR IS TRUMP AGAINST
TRANSGENDER PEOPLE.
ME AGAINST TRANSGENDER PEOPLE.
ME THINK
THIS IS WEIRD.
ME USED TO NORMAL PEOPLE.
THAT'S WHAT THEY
THINK.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR THE DEFENSE SECRETARY AND
THE JOINT CHIEFS ARE POTENTIALLY AGAINST IT.
THEY'RE
NOT GOING TO HEAR THAT IT IS GOING TO COST MORE MONEY.
THEY'RE GOING TO HEAR HATE AND THANK ME LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT.
FOR HIS BASE IT'LL PROBABLY WORK NO MATTER HOW FOOLISH IT
IS AND HOW UNSUPPORTED IT IS BY THE REST OF THE GOVERNMENT.