For Trump, there’s Columbus Day and Victory Day, but no World Aids Day

Since returning to office, Trump has signed a number of proclamations for including for anti-communism week and national energy dominance month. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

For the first time since 1988 the US government said it will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, which honors those who have lost their lives to the disease, celebrates efforts to combat the epidemic and raises awareness.

“An awareness day is not a strategy,” a state department spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, told the New York Times.