Donald Trump has yet to issue a proclamation declaring June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, something both President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama did annually during their terms at the start of June.

During his first term, Trump also did not issue any official Pride Month proclamations, though two years into his presidency in 2019, he did tweet about it, claiming he wanted to “stand in solidarity” with LGBTQ+ people and was fighting to “decriminalize homosexuality” worldwide.

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That tweet was, however, the first time a Republican president acknowledged the existence of Pride Month at all. During Trump’s first term in office, his administration said it established a mission to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.

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The first president to issue an official Pride proclamation was Bill Clinton in 1999, calling it Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.

So far, there is no proclamation on the official White House website marking the start of Pride Month, and it does not appear that the president has posted about it anywhere on social media either.

While Trump was just as antagonistic to LGBTQ+ people during his first term as he has been during his second (widely considered at the time to be the most anti-LGBTQ+ president in modern history), his administration seemed determined to maintain a guise of caring about LGBTQ+ people.

This time around, that effort to keep up appearances is gone. The FBI, for example, recently banned “official FBI actions, events, or messaging regarding Pride Month,” according to an email from FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs Ben Williamson obtained by Fox News.

Williamson said employees can celebrate Pride in their “personal capacity” only and that this ensures “the American people see we are focused only on our core mission.”

The declaration is a significant departure from the FBI under the Biden administration, which marked Pride Month in a variety of ways, including having agents participate in Pride events and flying a Pride flag at its headquarters, Advocate reported.

In 2018, the Trump administration ignored Pride Month but did declare June “National Ocean Month,” “National Caribbean-American Heritage Month,” “Great Outdoors Month,” “National Homeownership Month,” and “African-American Music Appreciation Month.”

So far, no proclamations of any sort have been issued this June.

This all comes as the administration has been doing everything in its power to decimate trans rights as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Since Trump took office in January, departments and agencies across the federal government have been subject to executive orders stripping recognition of transgender people from U.S. government policy and purging “anti-American propaganda” like drag from the public square.

Based on Trump’s “gender Ideology” order issued on his first day in office and an order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government, the State Department alone has banned changes to sex markers on U.S. passports based and threatened arts organizations receiving U.S. government funds, leading to canceled exhibitions featuring LGBTQ+ and Black artists.

The shutdown of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, has resulted in the loss of billions of dollars in aid to bipartisan programs like PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. Advocates have called the cuts “catastrophic” for the global LGBTQ+ and intersex rights movement.

In April, Trump’s state department withdrew the United States from the United Nations LGBTI Core Group, a collection of countries actively supporting the rights of LGBTQ+ and intersex people globally, a move that has dismantled any illusions that Trump cares about decriminalizing homosexuality around the world.

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