"This new petty cruelty follows other pettinesses in the administration of Chief Petty Officer Donald Trump, the selfsame administration that tried hard, but failed, to ban sign language interpreters from press briefings, that is now routinely humiliating trans people at U.S. Customs desks, and that has downgraded the Coast Guard’s designation of swastikas and nooses from 'hate speech' to something less … unpleasant.