Trumps War Against The Disabled

Make no mistake. If it can happen to autistic people, it can happen to you.

`Instead of doing what it needed to fix gaps, the current administration is doing what it can to widen them.`

The GOP`s H.R. 620 will gut the Americans With Disabilities Act, pushing disability rights back to 1989

“We really feel our lives are stake.”

I was born without a left hand. Disabled people like me don`t need Donald Trump reminding us we`re different and telling us we`re `tough to watch.`

Former Trump campaign chief Corey Lewandowsi`s `womp womp` comment about an immigrant child with Down syndrome is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the administration`s war on people with disabilities.

`No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower. Just do it,` Trump is reported to have told an architect working on the building`s design.

Barbara Res, who oversaw construction of the Trump Tower and is now a vocal critic of the president, recounted the alleged incident in a September 2018 op-ed.

With Donald Trump occupying to Oval Office, it’s easy to fall down an endless hole of scrutinizing his every move for some deeper, more profound motivation. Is he appeasing the urgings of his white nationalist base? Enacting some 13-dimensional political master stroke that only a select few YouTube channels and Reddit boards understand? Is he kompromat???

President Donald Trump in the early 1980s asked an architect to remove braille from planned residential elevators in Trump Tower in New York.