This could qualify as the tiniest Trump scandal of all time -- even smaller than they "Trump dumped all the fish food in the koi pond" scandal. It's a FONT scandal. NBC News thought this was hot-buns news from the Department of State:
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— Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 11, 2025
That's right: we're supposed be outraged by this: "Calibri font is the latest casualty in the Trump administration's war on diversity and inclusion." Admission of guilt: I use Calibri font constantly as I write up articles. I don't remember anyone on the right railing against Calibri font.
Alexandra Marquez and Abigail Williams lamely tried to make this grand:
It’s the rise of the Roman Empire at the U.S. State Department — Times New Roman, that is.
In a memo to the department on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to use Times New Roman 14-point font for official documents, reversing a Biden-era directive to use Calibri.
The memo, titled “Return to Tradition,” said that the new standard font would “reflect the same dignity, consistency, and formality expected in official government correspondence.”
Times New Roman 14, a serif font, had been the State Department standard since 2004, but in 2023, the agency switched to Calibri, a sans serif typeface, at the recommendation of the Secretary’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion to mitigate accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities.
With a sans serif typeface, the letters do not include tails and wings on their edges as serif typefaces do.
I fail to see any real importance in whether your font has “tails and wings.” But Rubio’s memo claimed “Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence.”
To NBC, switching fonts back was like slapping Martin Luther King's memory into a wall:
The move comes amid a wider push by the Trump administration against diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were embraced by the Biden administration.
Last week, the Interior Department unveiled next year’s “fee-free days” at the nation’s national parks, removing several holidays — including Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January and Juneteenth in June — that were previously included on the “fee-free” calendar.
Then it became more ridiculous: JustMindy at Twitchy flagged Steve Herman, a former White House reporter for the supposedly objective Voice of America, compared this to the Nazis:
The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was “too Jewish.”
Could there be a possibility that there is anything Team Trump does that can't be compared to the Nazis?
