In two more tweets following at 9:04 and 9:08 a.m., Trump finished his announcement: “. . . Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.” “What’d you think of my tweet?” the president asked Priebus later. “I think it would’ve been better if we had a decision memo, looped Mattis in,” Priebus answered.
