The brand-new director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention was once considered too controversial by George W. Bush for his position on HIV/AIDS, but not too controversial for Donald Trump.

Dr. Robert Redfield once commented on the AIDS epidemic by calling it the work of God, saying that it was “God’s Judgement against gays” and that the virus’s spread was due to the lack of traditional family values in the 1980s.

Redfield made these comments when he was working as a vaccine researcher in the US Army at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland. He also ordered testing of all troops without consent or confidentiality all while banning HIV-positive troops from serving and allegedly quarantined in places known as “HIV Hotel” and the “Leper Colony.”