Trump's desired cuts to America's global health programs are going to cause untold suffering, will save a relative pittance, and are likely to worsen epidemics overseas that we will then have to deal with at home. But let's just focus on the untold suffering part.

[T]he Trump administration has embarked on a historic retrenchment that many fear threatens the health of millions and jeopardizes America’s standing in the world. Since taking office, President Trump has proposed dramatic cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has historically spearheaded U.S. efforts to improve women’s and children’s health. The White House is urging reductions this year to major international heath initiatives, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which provides life-saving medicines to millions of AIDS patients in developing nations.

The "Trump doctrine," if any can be deciphered from the man's spittle-flecked incoherence, is that America should do no good in the world for anyone. We won't acknowledge refugee crises; we won't fight epidemics overseas; we won't do anything for anybody because Donald Effing Trump and his personal golf partners refuse to pay the same tax rates that their fathers did, and their fathers before them, in order to do it. So unless it involves bombing someone or landing troops on foreign soil—good, proper things that allow small-minded men to savor a bit of testosterone-fueled violence—everybody else, whether it be Meals on Wheels or efforts to combat ebola, can sod right the hell off.

Or that is what we might say if we thought Trump, himself, knew the details of any of his own budget plans. He most obviously doesn't, and as per usual has passed those details off to a phalanx of far-right idea men whose sole idea, ever, is that America should do no good for anybody. We can't pin this one on the gilded moron; it is the Republican hacks around him coming up with these schemes, not the empty-headed twit shouting at the crowds.