“President” Biden, last Friday:
“I, Joseph R. Biden … do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility,” said the White House proclamation issued Friday and signed by Mr. Biden.
Biden, Sunday:
As he left the 144th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Mr. Biden was quizzed by reporters about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s denunciation of the transgender proclamation as “outrageous and abhorrent.”
“Speaker Johnson called it ‘outrageous’ that Easter Sunday was Transgender Day of Visibility. What do you say to Speaker Johnson?” asked a reporter, according to the White House pool report.
Mr. Biden replied: “He’s thoroughly uninformed.”
When pressed for details, the president responded: “I didn’t do that.”
The “observance” has been on March 31 for about 15 years, now – it was going to coincide with Easter someday, one way or another.
Which, of course, doesnt’ explain why the White House gave it equal billing with the holiest day of the faith the President throws about as a prop when it suits him (or, more likely, his comms staff).
Now, if it coincided with Ramadan, or May Day? That’s a needle I look forward to seeing the “President” try to thread.
And I’m sure he will get his chance, as just about every other day is some sort of LGBTQ+ observance or another.
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