{"id":5226,"date":"2018-01-11T19:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2018-01-11T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:44:27","slug":"5226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/11\/5226\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trump on AIDS in 2006: &#8220;We think that AIDS can only happen to Africans&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0By holding onto this myth, we are setting ourselves up for an unncesscary and perhaps disastrous consequence.&#8221;<\/strong> Why did medical anthropologist Susan Hunter ask Donald Trump to write <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3TbeCQAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PR5#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">the foreword to her book <em>AIDS in America<\/em><\/a>? It&#8217;s as baffling as seeing Donald Trump credited alongside Alan Cumming, who wrote the preface. Even though there is no chance Trump the two-page foreword himself, the words are still jarring to see in contrast to <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/11\/5225\/\">the vile stuff he says on the subject now<\/a>, 12 years later in the Oval Office. Given its content \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/susan-hunter\/aids-in-america\/\"><em>Kirkus<\/em> called<\/a> it, &#8220;A disturbing picture of the status of AIDS in the United States and an angry claim that the country has failed utterly to confront the problem&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it&#8217;s clear Trump didn&#8217;t read it.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5228\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/11\/5226\/screen-shot-2018-01-11-at-7-22-13-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.22.13-PM.png?fit=625%2C861\" data-orig-size=\"625,861\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-01-11 at 7.22.13 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.22.13-PM.png?fit=218%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.22.13-PM.png?fit=525%2C723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5228\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.22.13-PM.png?resize=525%2C723\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.22.13-PM.png?w=625 625w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.22.13-PM.png?resize=218%2C300 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5229\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/11\/5226\/screen-shot-2018-01-11-at-7-21-45-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.21.45-PM.png?fit=625%2C300\" data-orig-size=\"625,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-01-11 at 7.21.45 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.21.45-PM.png?fit=300%2C144\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.21.45-PM.png?fit=525%2C252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5229\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.21.45-PM.png?resize=525%2C252\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.21.45-PM.png?w=625 625w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-7.21.45-PM.png?resize=300%2C144 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump on AIDS in 2006: &#8220;We think that AIDS can only happen to Africans&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0By holding onto this myth, we are setting ourselves up for an unncesscary and perhaps disastrous consequence.&#8221; Why did medical anthropologist Susan Hunter ask Donald Trump to write the foreword to her book AIDS in America? It&#8217;s as baffling as seeing Donald &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/11\/5226\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2skW4-5226","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}