Abdul El-Sayed: “What I was trying to do was offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context, and you don't ever…”

One of the big things that we have to recognize about HIV is that no disease can be illegal. The continuing forward of these laws on the books stigmatize people with the disease.

One can disagree with the governance of a foreign country. One can stand in solidarity with freedom and democracy movements.

If he wants to do any of those things, let's talk about it. But right now, what he's done is DOGE-ed out the parts of government that protect us, and then bent over to all of the corporations he said he'd never support.

I think they've been completely let down by a Trump administration that has capitulated to the very corporations that are on the wrong side of all their issues — whether it's the pharma industry, or it's big ag, or it's the food…