Donald Trump has adopted a peculiar and dangerous pattern in his second term, wrote Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Friday: moving to “delete” entire categories of people he doesn’t like or want to acknowledge from federal data whenever possible.
“For example, when the Defense Department was asked to cull all DEI-related content from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images,” they wrote. “A list of the deleted photos was given to the Associated Press. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities.”
Almost half of the deleted images included racial minorities, the report found.
If I get deleted from government databases, that’s fine. I grew up in the swamp and have camped in probably 90% of the national parks. I have different tackle boxes for different types of fishing. I’ll be alright. (I do still suck a fly fishing but it’s fun so I’ll figure it out.)