“The first thing we did is we reached out to all 13 members of the Coast Guard who have come out” as transgender, Zukunft told attendees at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington…. I am a civilian, so any hint of military intransigence to orders from the commander in chief makes me itchy. Tweets from @realDonaldTrump do not have the effect of a military order. I wholeheartedly agree with my Post colleague Charles Krauthammer when he writes:The military told the commander in chief to go jump in a lake. If the past few weeks are any guide, however, it is that this president is the weakest commander in chief in modern history.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2017 12:18 UTC