Trump to nominate fringe-Right anti-feminist as women’s issues ambassador

Penny Nance

I’m starting to wonder if there’s a professional troll in the Oval Office. How else to explain Trump’s knack for consistently appointing people whose views and track records are diametrically opposed to the functions they would fulfill?

President Trump is expected to nominate Penny Nance, an anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion, and anti-feminist activist, to be the “Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues,” a position created under President Obama.

Since 2010, Nance has led the Concerned Women for America (CWA), a Christian social policy organization that has been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBTQ hate group. She doesn’t believe that efforts to restrict health coverage for women are part of a “war on women,” but she used that term to describe the Violence Against Women Act. And she claims that legal abortion is worse than the Holocaust.

Planned Parenthood slammed the choice this weekend, with executive vice president Dawn Laguens saying the nomination “would be [like] putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department.” According to Laguens, CWA called the Office of Global Women’s Issues, which Nance would oversee, a “wasteful and unnecessary idea.”

Sure sounds like a qualified pick, doesn’t she? Then again, nominating a women’s ambassador whose life’s work is to undermine women’s rights fits right in with Trump’s view of women, as evidenced through his treatment of them over the decades.

Perhaps an appointment of Jerry Sandusky as Child Safety Director is on the horizon.

(via @fark)