This might qualify because the tiniest Trump scandal of all time — even smaller than they “Trump dumped all of the fish meals within the koi pond” scandal. It is a FONT scandal. NBC Information thought this was hot-buns information from the Division of State:
This can be a actual headline from NBC Information. pic.twitter.com/s7m4JNXO6z
— Media Analysis Middle (@theMRC) December 11, 2025
That is proper: we’re supposed be outraged by this: “Calibri font is the newest casualty within the Trump administration’s struggle on variety and inclusion.” Act of contrition: I take advantage of Calibri font always as I write up articles. I do not bear in mind anybody on the suitable railing in opposition to Calibri font.
Alexandra Marquez and Abigail Williams lamely tried to make this grand:
It’s the rise of the Roman Empire on the U.S. State Division — Instances New Roman, that’s.
In a memo to the division on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to make use of Instances New Roman 14-point font for official paperwork, reversing a Biden-era directive to make use of Calibri.
The memo, titled “Return to Custom,” stated that the brand new customary font would “replicate the identical dignity, consistency, and ritual anticipated in official authorities correspondence.”
Instances New Roman 14, a serif font, had been the State Division customary since 2004, however in 2023, the company switched to Calibri, a sans serif typeface, on the advice of the Secretary’s Workplace of Range and Inclusion to mitigate accessibility points for people with disabilities.
With a sans serif typeface, the letters don’t embody tails and wings on their edges as serif typefaces do.
I fail to spot any actual significance in whether or not your font has “tails and wings.” However Rubio’s memo claimed “Switching to Calibri achieved nothing besides the degradation of the division’s official correspondence.”
To NBC, switching fonts again was like slapping Martin Luther King’s reminiscence right into a wall:
The transfer comes amid a wider push by the Trump administration in opposition to variety, fairness and inclusion applications that have been embraced by the Biden administration.
Final week, the Inside Division unveiled subsequent yr’s “fee-free days” on the nation’s nationwide parks, eradicating a number of holidays — together with Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January and Juneteenth in June — that have been beforehand included on the “fee-free” calendar.
Then it grew to become extra ridiculous: JustMindy at Twitchy flagged Steve Herman, a former White Home reporter for the supposedly goal Voice of America, in contrast this to the Nazis:
The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font as a result of it was “too Jewish.”
May there be a risk that there’s something Group Trump does that may’t be in comparison with the Nazis?
