Jason Mohney believes his employees are being treated unfairly, and he’s fighting the Trump administration on their behalf.

Good for him. If what he says is true, a class of workers in Southern Nevada is being discriminated against in a case of off-the-scale hypocrisy.

Mohney, owner of the Little Darlings chain of strip clubs, says he struggled to obtain emergency COVID-19 funding from the federal government and is aware of other businesses like his that have been denied. So he’s suing, claiming the government isn’t giving adult-oriented businesses equal opportunity to obtain the funding. In doing so, he says, the Trump administration is acting on a bias against businesses that provide services or products of “prurient sexual nature.”

“The purpose of these loans is to give money for payroll from businesses to their employees, so to do something like this is just shortchanging the employees themselves,” he said in a story reported by the Las Vegas Sun’s Kelcie Grega.

Certainly, there’s no legitimate reason for Mohney’s employees to be frozen out of the relief funding package. They support themselves and their families through their earnings in a legal business, they pay taxes, they send their kids to school and they contribute to our economy, same as practically everyone in the Southern Nevada workforce.

In short, workers in legally operating adult-oriented businesses do nothing to deserve being treated as second-class citizens.

Denying them aid smacks of President Donald Trump playing to evangelical Christians and other social conservatives, groups he desperately needs to support him this November. If that’s what is happening, it’s appalling given Trump’s abject immorality.

Here’s a man who was part of Jeffrey Epstein’s social circle and joked about his interest in young girls, cheated on his wife Melania with porn performers and Playboy models, appeared in three soft porn productions himself, has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by 19 women, was accused of walking around backstage at the Miss Teen U.S.A. pageant as contestants as young as 15 were dressing, and once bragged on Howard Stern’s show about going backstage while contestants in the Miss U.S.A. pageant, many of whom were in their late teens, were naked.

“You know, they’re standing there with no clothes,” said Trump, who at the time owned the pageant, sounding like a leering pervert. “Is everybody OK? And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.”

This president and his enablers wouldn’t know moral high ground if it was circled on a map in black Sharpie. For them to exclude workers at places like Little Darlings based on puritanical standards would be a double standard of epic proportions.

And there is this: Any stripper in America is more honest than Trump because they don’t hide what they do. Trump, a complete phony, continually lies about who he is and what he has done.

Moreover, denying a legal business access to the federal program based on some crazed puritanical code is materially discriminatory and violates a core American concept of equal protection under the law.

Mohley’s business is entirely legal. It operates in several states and employs a workforce of hundreds.

So Mohley deserves his day in court, and he deserves to win. More, he deserves a prompt day in court because any delay unjustly victimizes his employees. The livelihoods of a large group of workers and their families are at stake. These are people who work in licensed, regulated businesses with a longstanding place in Nevada’s entertainment landscape, yet it appears they’re being shunned based on an unfair stigma leveled by a GOP and White House with zero claim to moral high ground.

That would be unacceptable under any presidential administration, but especially this one.