The president of the Human Rights Campaign, Alphonso David, has called President Trump the “worst president on LGBTQ issues ever.” Yes, seriously.

But nobody else should take that claim seriously.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have all echoed this tune, albeit with slightly less extreme language, decrying the Trump administration as supposedly hateful and homophobic. But this narrative has always been wildly exaggerated, and Trump’s new budget proposal puts the lie to it more than ever. Would a homophobic president be fighting for record levels of anti-HIV funding?

That’s what Trump is doing with his $4.8 trillion budget proposal released Monday afternoon. Sure, there’s lots to criticize about the budget broadly — it’s not exactly fiscally conservative — but when it comes to assessing Trump’s “homophobia,” it sure does undercut the liberal narrative. Policy is ultimately what counts, and as reported by the Washington Examiner, the president’s budget calls for $716 million in anti-HIV funding, $425 million more than Congress had granted.