Having been in my career the trifecta of being Gay, a teacher, and union member, I was curious why anyone with all those credentials, any one of them, or any combination of them would have voted for someone who would not be good for them.

When I asked, I was told Trump was the friend of each category, although no one could give any information to base that claim on.

However, now that things may not be panning out as expected, I thought I would present information that would probably have these people thinking twice in the future when politicians simply state they are their best friends, and perhaps, next time, ask for examples to back up that claim.

Trump has been a consistent opponent of marriage equality. He said that he opposed it because he was a “traditional” guy, and he showed his reverence for tradition by avoiding multiple co-existing marriages, or any to anyone of the same sex. He chose, instead, to follow the tradition of multiple sequential marriages to women with whom he had affairs while still married to she who would become their predecessor.

Trump has expressed support for the so-called First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) which would lead to more Kim Davis-style discrimination. He has declined to support the Equality Act.

He is Strongly Considering Appointing Judges to overturn the Same-Sex Marriage decision, and has begun by appointing Justice Gorsuch

He wants to “preserve and protect our religious liberty, using the plural “our” without ever having given any evidence he is in any way religious enough to protect that.

And while he insisted, “We’re going to protect the First Amendment”, this only includes allowing people to discriminate against GLBT people on the basis of nebulous “firmly held religious beliefs”, but not the freedom of the press.

He rescinded the Department of Education and Department of Justice’s Title IX guidance in February that protected students against discrimination and harassment in our nation’s schools on the basis of sex, and rescinded the Obama Administration’s guidance that transgender students be treated with dignity and allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identity

Trump cancelled President Barack Obama’s executive order that required contractors to prove they are in compliance with nondiscrimination obligations.

Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services removed questions identifying GLBT people from the National Survey of Older Americans Act and the Annual Program Performance Report for Centers for Independent Living. One deals with the areas of transportation, homemaker, and meal assistance, while the other tracks the efficacy of programs that assist Americans with disabilities. Since federal programs base funding by counting people in the community, if LGBT people aren’t tallied the organizations and programs that assist them won’t get the resources they need.

The Trump administration proposed a budget that included cuts of at least $342 million to HIV/AIDS prevention and research, a $50 million cut in the domestic HIV/AIDS budget, and another $50 million from the global HIV/AIDS CDC program.

Trump appointed an anti-GLBT activist Roger Severino to lead the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR).

Now all that is proof he is such a good frien.

Betsy DeVoss, whom Trump put in charge of the country’s education, has pushed to give families taxpayer money in the form of vouchers to attend private and parochial schools, pressed to expand publicly funded but privately run charter schools, and tried to strip teacher unions of their influence.

As a candidate, Mr. Trump proposed steering $20 billion in existing federal money toward vouchers that families could use to help pay for private or parochial schools, perhaps tapping into $15 billion in so-called Title I money that goes to schools that serve the country’s poorest children.

DeVos has never taught in a public school, administered one, nor sent her children to one.

As an example of the discriminatory and privileged concept of education she holds, her husband, Dick DeVos, a keen pilot, founded one of his own charter schools, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, which serves an overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male population of students.
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His choice for secretary of the Department of Labor is fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, a union critic who’s even floated the idea of automating his restaurants to avoid worker costs.

A Senate committee is set to vote on nominees to the National Labor Relations Board who would give the agency a Republican majority which would reverse major pro-labor decisions issued during the presidency of Barack Obama.

The Department of Labor expected to scale back Obama-era plans to extend overtime eligibility to millions more workers.

Several pro-worker regulations have been scrapped or delayed, and the administration is backing the employer’s position in a Supreme Court case on mandatory arbitration agreements that prohibit workers from filing class-action lawsuits.

But Celine McNicholas, who served as special counsel at the NLRB during the Obama administration, and is labor counsel at the Economic Policy Institute, has said,

“The first six months of the Trump administration have been devastating for workers in this country — unprecedented even.”

Trump’s Labor Department filed a brief in federal appellate court indicating it will not advocate for the overtime changes set by the Obama administration, changes that would have required nearly everyone paid less than $47,476 a year to be eligible for time-and-a-half pay when they worked more than 40 hours a week.

The NLRB, an independent agency tasked with enforcing federal labor law related to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices, also faces some anti-union actions under Trump.

During the Obama years, Republicans thought the board’s Democratic majority was pushing a pro-union agenda because decisions included allowing employees to form “micro unions” with smaller bargaining units, favoring graduate students working as teaching assistants at private universities the right to unionize, and expanding the circumstances under which a company can be held liable for labor conditions under one of its subcontractors or franchisees.

Trump appointees can undo all that especially as he wants people like Marvin Kaplan, a longtime labor lawyer representing management at Littler Mendelson, and William Emanuel, who recently worked as counsel for a House committee that proposed legislation to make it harder for workers to unionize, on the Board.

Trump’s proposed budget includes a 20% cut to Labor Department funding, ranging from to $9.7 billion to $12.1 billion, which would result in gutting workforce training programs that the White House said should be funded more by states, localities and employers.

Trump has rolled back several rules and executive orders that Obama issued to protect workers like the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule, requiring companies bidding for large federal contracts to disclose and correct past labor law and safety violations.

Also in the works is rescinding the “persuader rule,” which requires law firms to publicly disclose any work they do for employers surrounding union organization efforts.

Meantime, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has delayed three workplace safety rules issued during the last year of Obama’s presidency.

About the question as to whether employers may require workers to sign arbitration agreements that waive their rights to file class or collective actions should a dispute arise, the NLRB has held that the agreements violate workers’ rights, and in November Obama’s solicitor general filed a petition supporting the NLRB in the case involving Murphy Oil, one of three cases the Supreme Court is reviewing on the issue.

In June Trump’s acting solicitor general took the opposite stance, asserting that mandatory arbitration agreements don’t violate the National Labor Relations Act and are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act.

Workers, especially union members will have no recourse when they are mistreated or denied their rights to contractual protections.

Like the people who voted for Trump because he was going to save them from the curse of Obamacare, only to find out that name was chosen by its opponent so people who disliked having a Black president would be blindly in favor of getting rid of it, only to find out they lose the Affordable care act which they need and want. The teachers, Gay people, and Union members  who were fooled by him are in for a surprise when things begin to happen, and will have no one but themelves to blame.