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Stony-faced Madonna lambasts 'ridiculous' Trump as he ends US commemoration of World Aids Day
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 1, 2025 | DEIRDRE DURKAN-SIMONDS

Posted on 12/02/2025 1:41:42 AM PST by Morgana

Madonna issued a blistering rebuke of Donald Trump after he moved to end the United States' official acknowledgement of World AIDS Day, a global day of remembrance and awareness recognized every year since 1988.

On Monday, the singer and prominent LGBTQ+ ally, 67, took to Instagram with a solemn black-and-white video and a series of stark text slides, slamming Trump's directive as 'ridiculous,' 'absurd,' and 'unthinkable' while urging her fans to continue honoring those affected by HIV/AIDS.

'Today is World AIDS Day. For four decades, this day has been internationally recognized around the world by people from all walks of life, because millions of people's lives have been touched by the HIV crisis,' she wrote. 'People have lost lovers and husbands and wives and girlfriends and boyfriends and mothers and daughters and children to this deadly disease, of which there is still no cure.'

The singer then turned her fury toward Trump after reports surfaced that the State Department instructed employees and grantees not to publicly commemorate the day, including on social media, speeches, or other public-facing messaging.

The internal memo, viewed by The New York Times, advised government staff to 'refrain from messaging on any commemorative days, including World AIDS Day.

'Donald Trump has announced that World AIDS Day should no longer be acknowledged,' she wrote in a sharply worded post. 'It's one thing to order federal agents to refrain from commemorating this day, but to ask the general public to pretend it never happened is ridiculous, it's absurd, it's unthinkable.'

She added a deeply personal reflection, recalling the trauma of watching someone she loved succumb to the disease.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
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I wonder if she knows AIDS is preventable?
1 posted on 12/02/2025 1:41:42 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Elton John reveals what would make Trump one of the ‘greatest presidents’ in history

https://www.foxnews.com/media/elton-john-reveals-what-would-make-trump-one-greatest-presidents-history


2 posted on 12/02/2025 1:50:44 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Morgana

oh oh....Trump doesn’t want to wear the ribbon!


3 posted on 12/02/2025 1:56:03 AM PST by xp38
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To: Morgana; All

She’s the “Queen of the Skanks”


4 posted on 12/02/2025 1:56:15 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Morgana

There’s gotta be some new disease we can celebrate, no?


5 posted on 12/02/2025 2:29:39 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: Morgana

My guess is that it is possibly a guilt trip for her, knowing she spent her life promoting the very lifestyles that increased the spread of the disease tremendously.


6 posted on 12/02/2025 2:34:22 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Morgana

Not justifying the behaviors but thanks to drugs since Madonna’s peak, HIV is undetectable and untransmittable which keeps AIDS from happening. AIDS has become a Boomer disease and is as obsolete as Madonna.


7 posted on 12/02/2025 2:45:48 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Morgana

Speaking of the UK and AIDS...

Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧
@DefenceHQ

Your HIV status is no barrier to service.

This #WorldAIDSDay, the UK is proud to become the first
@NATO nation to open up every single role in our Armed Forces to people living with HIV on treatment – meaning they cannot pass the virus on.

@THTorguk

3:14 PM · Dec 1, 2025 448K Views

Read 1.4K replies

https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1995587334394577193

That appears to be an official account.

If you’re on X or nitter, be sure to check out the comments.


8 posted on 12/02/2025 3:03:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Morgana

You can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves.


9 posted on 12/02/2025 3:22:11 AM PST by Mashood
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To: Morgana
AIDS is God's punishment for sodomites.

10 posted on 12/02/2025 3:28:28 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Morgana

“internationally recognized around the world by people from all walks of..”. Well, not in my neck of the woods. Never heard of “World Aids Day”, and most I know never have either.


11 posted on 12/02/2025 3:44:10 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Morgana

Madonna: The other white meat.


12 posted on 12/02/2025 3:48:34 AM PST by Ignatz ("Look, if I offend anybody today, I don't care." -Tom Homan)
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To: Morgana

David Horowitz talks about the AIDS during the initial epidemic in his book “Radical Son”. The health authorities knew very well what it was caused by, but the politics in places like San Francisco made it completely impossible to deal with. It was a hygiene issue, if you will - hundreds or thousands of anonhmous homosexual encounters on a yearly basis. Any efforts to stem the spread were met with howls of outrage and they backed down.

They had some weird notion that catching and spreading venereal disease, was a fight against “sexual fascism” or somesuch twaddle.

And at the same time, they blamed Ronald Reagan for “not doing anything”, and demanding a vaccine, and the government wasn’t spending enough money. The entire thing was completely insane. They insisted or denied simultaneously for quite some time that buggery had anything to do with it at all.


13 posted on 12/02/2025 3:58:06 AM PST by Freedom4US
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“World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.[5][6] Bunn and Netter took their idea to Dr. Jonathan Mann, Director of the Global Programme on AIDS (now known as UNAIDS)”

“Bunn, a former television broadcast journalist from San Francisco...” 🤔🤔🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day


14 posted on 12/02/2025 4:09:54 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Morgana

HOORAY President Trump!


15 posted on 12/02/2025 4:21:49 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: TimSkalaBim

We need “TDS Awareness Day” or “Liberalism Mental Disease Awareness Day” or “Woke Mind Virus Awareness Day.”


16 posted on 12/02/2025 4:28:36 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Morgana
ACT UP founder Larry Kramer once called him a murderer and "an incompetent idiot"

How Dr. Fauci Made Peace with Fierce Critics — AIDS Activists — and Befriended a Former ‘Nemesis’ (Exclusive)
17 posted on 12/02/2025 4:29:29 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Morgana

18 posted on 12/02/2025 4:29:44 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: TimSkalaBim

Should declare Vaxx induced Cancer Day.


19 posted on 12/02/2025 4:31:39 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Morgana
Considering acquiring AIDs is almost always via choosing to engage in risky and immoral acts, then while compassion is certainly to be shown to those suffering due to such, it does not render one a "victim."

Related: A logical, objective, unbiased conclusion of one AI model (Perplexity.Ai) to a question revealing bias, versus refusal by another (Poe.com) which indicates bias toward a certain group (or fear of the same)

Regarding bias, based upon typical treatment of media, what you think the reaction would be if a consensual Christian practice - let's say the Lord's supper - was shown to be responsible for up to 81% of new HIV cases aged 13 and older among men - - despite only representing approximately 4% of the male population - and 92% of new HIV among youth, and (historically) a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases and premature death (all of which is documented by CDC stats?

God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with, by design and decree, precept and in principle.

And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for close to 80% of new HIV cases among men and close to750,000 American deaths, even though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.

Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

20 posted on 12/02/2025 4:35:02 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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