"President Donald Trump went into bigoted overdrive"
In order to be bigoted against transgender people you have to have an attitude towards them. You have to have a worldview that excludes them.
But, Donald Trump has no core values, other than the advancement of Donald Trump. Even his support for his children is to ensure the advancement of Trump.
When it comes to values, ethics, ideology, etc, Trump has no "there" there.
That's what makes this even worse, IMO.
President Trump has known gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people his whole adult life. He's probably socialized with them, hired them. Maybe arranged loans from them.
But, GLBT people don't matter to Trump, one way or another. And if it advances his agenda to throw them under the bus, he'll do so in a heartbeat.
Trump just threw the lives of thousands of transgender people, people honorably serving our country, into chaos. For purely political reasons.
Trump did this to keep his base happy.
That's what makes this so sad.