President Trump Tweeted today his decision to stop the US government's subsidies of Transfender guitars after consulting with "musical experts," arguing the musicians "must be focused on playing music and cannot be burdened with ass-backward instruments." The President's Tweet also contained an attachment showing what a Transfender guitar looks like.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders later described the move as a "common sense decision," telling a press briefing that Mr. Trump had promised voters to stop government waste and gratuitous social experimentation on the taxpayer's dime.
Anonymous White House officials have been overheard gossiping about what a tough spot they were putting Democrats in. "This forces Democrats in Rust Belt states like Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin to take complete ownership of this issue," Washington Post reported one of them saying. Another added that it would "be fun to watch some of them have to play the Transfender guitars themselves."
It turns out they didn't even need Democrats to do it; some high-profile Republicans were happy to.
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted President Donald Trump's announcement as "unclear" and "inappropriate" given that a number of government-subsidized studies of Transfender guitars are still ongoing.
"I do not believe that any new policy decision is appropriate until those studies have spent every government dollar assigned to them, and their findings thoroughly reviewed by the Committee on Transfender Equality and the Congress," McCain said in a statement, adding that The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Musical Instruments had already decided that currently existing Transgender guitars could remain in circulation.
Today's presidential announcement puts an end to the long-standing government policy to subsidize the design and production of Transfender guitars that would otherwise not survive the competition with the traditional Fender instruments preferred by most musicians. Approved and signed into law by the Obama administration, the subsidies in the amount of up to $8.4 million annually constitute only a tiny percentage of the federal budget, while supporting the need of a small but growing community of Transfender musicians.
Read more at the People's Cube.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders later described the move as a "common sense decision," telling a press briefing that Mr. Trump had promised voters to stop government waste and gratuitous social experimentation on the taxpayer's dime.
Anonymous White House officials have been overheard gossiping about what a tough spot they were putting Democrats in. "This forces Democrats in Rust Belt states like Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin to take complete ownership of this issue," Washington Post reported one of them saying. Another added that it would "be fun to watch some of them have to play the Transfender guitars themselves."
It turns out they didn't even need Democrats to do it; some high-profile Republicans were happy to.
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted President Donald Trump's announcement as "unclear" and "inappropriate" given that a number of government-subsidized studies of Transfender guitars are still ongoing.
"I do not believe that any new policy decision is appropriate until those studies have spent every government dollar assigned to them, and their findings thoroughly reviewed by the Committee on Transfender Equality and the Congress," McCain said in a statement, adding that The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Musical Instruments had already decided that currently existing Transgender guitars could remain in circulation.
Today's presidential announcement puts an end to the long-standing government policy to subsidize the design and production of Transfender guitars that would otherwise not survive the competition with the traditional Fender instruments preferred by most musicians. Approved and signed into law by the Obama administration, the subsidies in the amount of up to $8.4 million annually constitute only a tiny percentage of the federal budget, while supporting the need of a small but growing community of Transfender musicians.
Read more at the People's Cube.
