Q Toon: PACHA Comes to Shove

Amid a blizzard of Big Button cartoons today, I've drawn about the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS instead.

With no explanation, the White House has terminated members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS amid widespread discontent with President Trump’s approach to the epidemic.
After six members of PACHA resigned in June, the White House on Wednesday terminated the remaining 16 members without explanation via a letter from FedEx.
Scott Schoettes, a Chicago-based HIV/AIDS activist and senior attorney for Lambda Legal, was one of the six who resigned in June over Trump’s inaction on HIV/AIDS and said on Twitter the remaining members were fired.
“No respect for their service,” Schoettes said. “Dangerous that #Trump and Co. (Pence esp.) are eliminating few remaining people willing to push back against harmful policies, like abstinence-only sex ed.”

Some gay Republicans have defended the Corrupt Trump Administration's move on the grounds that George W. Bush and Barack Obama had both stocked PACHA with appointees of their own; but since this issue doesn't register with confederate flag-waving Trump loyalists or relate in any way to Trump's penis size, others see the hand of Vice President Pence and his brand of faith-based policy makers behind this move. Sources close to the decision tell Newsweek that they "suspect the charter for PACHA will be re-written with renewed focus on abstinence and religious, non-evidence based public health approaches."

Time, as the cliche goes, will tell, but the Corrupt Trump Administration's record so far is hardly encouraging.