Fresh off his ego-crushing loss in Iowa, Donald Trump is rebranding himself as a champion for LGBTQ equality.
The billionaire wants the queer people of America to know that he loves you. He supports you. He thinks you’re just great! No, really, he does! You’re tremendous! And if you vote for him, he’ll convince everyone else to think so, too! He’s a businessman, after all!
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Reporter Sue O’Connell recently had the distinct privilege to ask Mr. Trump about his stance on LGBTQ issues. Here’s what she said: “I’m a lesbian. We’ve had some great progress for the gay and lesbian community. When President Trump is in office can we look for more forward motion on equality for gays and lesbians?”
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Trump wasted no time telling her what he thought she wanted to hear.
“Well, you can,” he said. “We’re going to bring people together, and that’s your thing, and other people have their thing. We have to bring all people together and if we don’t we’re not going to have a country anymore.”
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Did you hear that gay people? Donald Trump wants to you have “your thing.” And other people can have “their thing.” In Donald Trump’s America, everyone can have “their thing”… so long as they aren’t Mexican, Muslim, disabled, and so on, and so on…
Either Trump has had a complete 180-degree change of heart since he boasted that he absolutely, positively does not support same-sex marriage in 1999… and in 2000… and in 2011… and in 2013… Or he’s just trying to appeal to New Hampshire voters, of which 67 percent say they support same-sex marriage.
Watch Donald J. pat himself on the back for being an advocate for LGBT people in the video below. Or don’t.
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Bauhaus
“Your thing” is code for keep that [gay] shit behind closed-doors and shut up about it.
antgalva
blah blah blah politicians pandering I thought Obama and Hillary were all against gay marriage until a few years ago Obama was against it when he was first elected but I guess now he loves all gay people right whatever
Dakotahgeo
tRUMP loves GLBT people… and I’m a 71 year old gay virgin! Surrrrrrre!!!
JessPH
It doesn’t change the fact that a Republican president with a republican-controlled congress would be DISASTROUS for the LGBT community. Trump will appoint conservatives SCOTUS justices who are against LGBT rights. The Equality Act will never move on in Congress. etc.
DISASTROUS!
DCguy
He just said he would appoint Supreme Court justices to overturn gay marriage.
Kangol
Is this a joke!? Didn’t he just say he would appoint SCOTUS judges who would repeal same-sex marriage?
Is he suffering from CTE? Because I know we’re all suffering from seeing way too much of him.
He’s insufferable!
joeyty
He probably wouldn’t do anything for or against gay rights. But the way he panders to whoever he’s speaking to is a turn off (politicians usually try to disguise it a little more).
joeyty
@antgalva: Obama was just speaking at a totally homophobic mosque, and saying how much they “belong” in America. Blech. Politicians.
ScottOnEarth
This asshole will say anything (without substance) to get a vote. He’s a hater who has already said he wants to repeal marriage equality. Fuck him and his orange face.
captainburrito
I wonder what issues the NH Repub primary voters are concerned with. Are they are fire breathing as the iowa ones?
joeyty
@ScottOnEarth: He was probably just saying he’d repeal marriage equality to get elected, and would screw over those religious nuts too.
Cagnazzo82
@antgalva: Obama was actually *FOR* gay marriage prior to running for the presidency. And is documented as being pro gay rights as far back as the 90s.
Hillary was the one who was against it, and only changed her tune after the fact.
Cagnazzo82
Back on subject, Trump will say whatever he needs to say to get us elected.
The only thing I’m concerned about is who the next supreme court justices will be when those scumbag dinosaurs like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas etc… have to go.
We do *NOT* need another republican placing their despicable justices on the supreme court.
Gay marriage barely survived the Supreme Court test. Had it not been for Obama being president and placing liberal justices on the court it would have surely failed.
Everyone gay person who plans on supporting conservative candidates should have this reality drilled in their heads.
corey
Just last week he said he would support the over-turning of same-sex marriage. It should be obvious to any gay, trump should not be voted for, but unless u are with that self-hating gay republican group, then he is all yours
mcflyer54
Apparently Donald found enjoyment in the schlonging he got from Cruz in Iowa causing him to changed his position (pun intended) on gary right.
CWM85
I think out of all the gop candidates he would be most friendly. The rest have terrible records and words against gay people. Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Bush will try to deface glbt off U.S. at least Trump has gay employees and knows gay celebs. He doesn’t support job discrimination because of being glbt. I think gay republicans better hope he is nominated over the rest of field. Hilary I don’t trust her, I think she will turn her back on gay community once elected. I really do. She is all lip service.
Mack
@CWM85: He just said last week he would over turn it. God, you believe him? If you’re gay and you vote for a Republican you’re only thinking with your wallet. You surely don’t care about GLBTQ.
Doug
The Republicans have been whining about how no one can trust anything a politician says anymore and that Trump “speaks his mind…” How many faces does this guy have? He’s such an outright liar that he almost doesn’t try and conceal it anymore.
joeyty
@Doug: Bt if he’s lying on everything….would he turn out good or bad for gay equality in the U.S. if actually elected??
Kieran
Wouldn’t it be dreadful if the Democrats had to actually compete with Republicans for gay votes and money (like they do for Jewish votes and money)? It’s so much simpler just to take the gays for granted, maybe offer them some crumbs, since they’ve got no where else to go.
billeetee
Excuse me! Didn’t The Rump just state that if President he would appoint judges to the Supreme Court who would ‘reverse’ marriage equality and give it back to the states to decide. Does he say one thing and then suddenly forget he’s said it and that we don’t remember?
This man is SICK!
joeyty
@Kieran: Some good truth in what you say there.
Brian
Wouldn’t Sue O’Connell be better off identifying herself as a human being first? Identifying as a lesbian is de-humanizing in my opinion. Her concerns should be the same as other people’s concerns, such as the effect that illegal immigration has on law and order.
Billy Budd
He is a disgusting creature.
Nahald
Last week he practically got on bended knee and kissed the Evangelicls feet. So did he flip-flop again ? This guy CANNOT become president with this kind of thinking. Just saying the stuff that he thinks people want to hear ? That is NOT what a president is supposed to do !
dwes09
@joeyty: Just as he has, in the past, spoken at “totally homophobic” churches. This country is composed of many constituencies that a president must address. The difference however (which is quite obvious to those who actually look) is that President Obama (and the democratic party) has always understood that the US and its laws are intentionally secular. The republican party over the last 25 years or so has denied that and worked to change that (now more than ever). ALL the current Republican candidates either sincerely believe or act as if this is a Christian country by design and all other faiths or all those who do not adhere to belief a God are here by the largess of “good christian people”.
That is a huge and hugely important difference. Your disingenuous attempt to equate Obama’s growth of understanding over the years (or his calculated wait in pushing an agenda) with the pandering of one right wing candidate is very obvious.
Nahald
@billeetee: That’s what he thought people wanted to hear LAST week. This week, as usually , his stance has changed .
Nahald
@dwes09: I couldn’t have said it any better !
dwes09
@Brian: Where do you people get this crap? Actual statistics debunk right wing lies about illegals and crime. And if we as LGBT people do not insist on making our identity clear and our need for equal protection under the law, evangelicals and people like you (who from your comment certainly seems very heterocentric or at best clueless) will walk all over us and do their best to force us back into the closet, as the entire republican field of candidates makes clear.
joeyty
@dwes09: Which homophobic church did Obama speak at ? I can’t think of a single one that spoke with THAT amount of hostility re. gays. If I’m wrong..educate me.
dwes09
@CWM85: Whereas the republican field is easily caught in lies (all one needs to do is check politifact or snopes), their continual attempts (and squandering of money to do so) to discredit her with “investigations” and rumors have proven totally fruitless. She is equally or probably more trustworthy than any of them and more of a proven effective politician than Sanders.
Nothing would be more damaging to the country than the right regaining the white house. It would be at least 4 years of a return to failed domestic, economic and foreign policies, undoing all the good President Obama has managed despite opposition.
joeyty
@dwes09: And what’s my “disingenuous” attempt at something that’s very obvious ? It must be obvious to you but ….I’m unaware of what I was supposed to be attempting there.
dwes09
@joeyty: Why, instead not educate yourself to the difference between islamist terrorists and rank and file Muslims in the US. Why don’t you provide proof of “THAT amount of hostility” in the mosque that President Obama chose to visit. Just because you are not aware of the broad range of belief among Muslims does not mean it does not exist. They are not all Wahabi, they are not all Jihadists!
joeyty
@dwes09: Which church ?
paul dorian lord fredine
i think he’s forgetting just which face is speaking today. i’m afraid i’ll be putting on my cynical sally panties today and saying. ‘sorry, i don’t believe you.’ i’d rather trust a scorpion in my jockstrap than actually think he’ll be a friend to the lgbtq once in the white house. besides, wouldn’t that stance lose him the entire evangelical bloc? he’s going to have to turn his back on one of us and in his mind the bible-thumpers are more valuable and, after all, in the end it’s all about what’s best for him and being a winner.
joeyty
@dwes09: You’re telling me these are rank-and-file Muslims at this mosque, with the homophobia coming out of there ?
dwes09
@joeyty: ” And what’s my “disingenuous” attempt at something that’s very obvious ?” My mistake actually. I was interrupted in commenting, and accidentally mistook the comment
“blah blah blah politicians pandering I thought Obama and Hillary were all against gay marriage until a few years ago Obama was against it when he was first elected but I guess now he loves all gay people right whatever” as yours. So I owe an apology for the remark on disingenuousness.
joeyty
@dwes09: Okay, but…I’m about to give you some of the vile homophobia spouted by this Islamic Society of Baltimore that Obama was gushing over (when he should have been criticizing them like he did re. gay equality in Africa), and I want to know which churches he visited were that homophobic.
Bauhaus
@Kieran:
Completion is good. So far, though, the GOP offers zilch, and is also hostile to the gains we’ve made under Democrats. But you already know that.
Not sure about the “crumbs” you speak of, either – Democrats are pro-ENDA, reject “religious freedom” bills, pro-federal protections in employment, housing, banking, hate crime, Supreme Court picks… In other words, any gains we’ve made and keep are because of Democrats. Any LGBT gains in the future will also be credited to Democrats. You know all of this, too.
Instead of whining about Democrats taking our votes for granted, blame Republicans for continuing to treat us as second-class citizens, and worse.
joeyty
@dwes09: I just brought it up because Obama (who I usually like) disappointed me with the mosque visit.
Bauhaus
@Bauhaus:
*Competition.
joeyty
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2016/02/president-obama-meets-with-homophobic-imam-at-baltimore-mosque.html Just one article.
dwes09
@joeyty: Feel free to find examples of “the homophobia coming out of there”, or examples of homophobic violence or discrimination committed by members of the organization, or quotes from their staff or Imams that support your statement. Here’s the link to the place:
http://www.isb.org/default.aspx
The fear, misunderstanding and assumptions you have expressed in the past regarding all of islam are simply that; fear, misunderstanding and assumptions. Were there truth to them, it would not be as easily demonstrated that we are in more danger from Christian terrorists than from Muslim terrorists.
Were you better informed, you’d understand that these people are the ones you need to fear:
http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/m/state-of-white-supremacy-in-the-united-states/?referrer=https://www.google.com/#.VrUygPkrKCg
Kieran
@Bauhaus: You are aware that we wouldn’t have legal gay marriage in all 50 US states without the vote of Reagan appointee Justice Anthony Kennedy right?
I acknowledge that some in the Democratic party tend to be more gay friendly than many in the GOP. But Trump has gone out of his way to show he is not one of the GOP’s many homophobes. He should be given credit for that.
s63283
Go to trumpdonald.org 🙂
jimontp
@dwes09: Thanks for some logical thinking. BUT it isn’t just about Right wing “Christian” evangelical extremists. It’s much more importantly about the right-wingnuts on the Supreme Court. ALL of the GOP candidates have advocated appointing more Supreme Court justices that would overturn gay marriage equality. ALL of the current ones, just like Scalia, Alito, Roberts and THOMAS (THE SILENT). Whoever this Joeyty is on this site is a Republican troll, probably not gay, definitely doesn’t understand the concept of equal rights, and still keeps dominating the comments section. THIS is supposed to be a gay site, yet everyone of Joeyty comments suggests that he is some weird idiot who thinks GOP candidates might be better than Obama. GET REAL. The GOP and their rabidly anti-gay positions advocated by ALL of their candidates would relegate us to second class, unequal status.
dean089
Well, yeah. When he’s talking to the Religious Right he’s against marriage equality. When he’s talking to LGBT people he’s pro-LGBT equality. Can’t people see the difference? LOL!
joey j. coulter
This yahoo yahoo doesn’t know a queer from a fag. Bet his son could bend over and tell us
Bauhaus
@Kieran:
Is it any wonder there is such contempt for gay Republicans?
dwes09
@jimontp: Absolutely. The appointment of far right SCOTUS Justices is the fear if any of the GOP offerings get into office. Get enough of them on the court and they might even overturn Loving v.Virginia while Thomas is busy snoozing. After all the Bible DOES say each shall keep to “their own kind”. Get a Democrat in the white house and just maybe we’ll see “citizens united” done away with in the future.
scotshot
@dwes09: Brian is noe of those pseudo gay log cabin types who are here to Troll
Translation He/She is xtian str8.
dwes09
@joey j. coulter: “This yahoo yahoo doesn’t know a queer from a fag.” There is no difference. They are both epithets used to insult gay men. My straight friends get lots of crap from me if they use the word queer. We are no queerer than anybody, and our eccentricities are of no consequence in judging our value as humans. For the Majority of us there is no such thing as rehabilitating an epithet, and the wisdom of using the word ourselves is easily questioned (just as it is for blacks, just is it is in the naming of this site).
I’m also Jewish, and no Jew in their right mind would ever refer to themselves or others as a kike. Racial, ethnic and sexual epithets need to die out from lack of use.
dwes09
@jimontp: Certainly Joeyty usually sounds like a right wing hetero troll, but I am willing to be generous and assume he is simply a confused, mislead and unenlightened gay man consumed by distaste for Muslims and politics he does not understand. He also seems totally unaware of the difference between a news outlet and a blog, or opinion ve journalism.
Captain Obvious
Not worth the attention.
Kevin Wotipka
Oh my God it is SAY ANYTHNG time
spanprof
HMMMM did he run into the Human Rights Org? They’ll boycott his damn hotels along with the Europeans who will know!
joeyty
@dwes09: Well…how would you consider that link to be misleading ? And that’s just one article of many. And, no, we’re not in more danger from Christian terrorists than Muslim terrorists. That’s your preferred fantasy. Shall we start listing particular incidents..? Yes, of course it’s fear that makes me anti-Muslim. The same sensible fear that keeps me from taking a nap on train tracks. (And you’re a foolish old maid of a gay basement dweller if you have to fall back on that fantasy that I’m a straight republican troll. I’ve already said some of the greatest men in history were homosexual. Preferred their own. The stronger sex. If anyone here is secretly straight and homophobic it’s you. You want MORE Muslims in the U.S. ?? Do you follow what’s happening to gay Europe ?)
joeyty
@jimontp: Hey, doofus, I already said on Queerty I don’t support Trump or any Republican candidates.
joeyty
@dwes09: And I’m still waiting for you to give me an example of a church Obama spoke at that expressed THAT extreme homophobia….the level of homophobia we have from mainstream Muslims at the Baltimore mosque.
joeyty
@dwes09: Wasn’t a white Christian who tried to burn a thousand of us to death at the seattle Neighbors nightclub. And that’s with such a small Muslim population in the U.S. Imagine what it’ll be like as it gets larger ?
joeyty
@dwes09: You’re Jewish too !!!?? Oh man ! (Double self-hatred going on there).
joeyty
@dwes09: Hope you’ve ditched your friend Signorile then after he approved HuffPo’s Gay Voices changing to Queer Voices.
DrinkYourJuiceShelby
Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you
dwes09
@joeyty: “My friend?” You really do live in a fantasy world, don’t you? What is is about right wingers that makes it so hard for them to separate reality from fantasy. As a rule I don’t follow blogs, and certainly not those of “queer activists”, “queer theorists” or any of those other rather silly labels. You are simply demonstrating you have no idea what I read or how i formulate opinions. All progressives are not the same.
And a lot of us simply use reliable sources of facts to formulate opinion. Try it some time.
dwes09
@joeyty: “You’re Jewish too !!!?? Oh man ! (Double self-hatred going on there).”
OK little boy, you have all my posts on this article from which to choose. Provide even one quote that alludes to self hatred. Or accept the label of fool so many commenters here regularly apply to you. I have given you the benefit of doubt that you live in a world all your own. But it seems more likely that is the case.
So, using actual reality (my words here on this site) support your assertions. Put up or shut up, as they say.
joeyty
@dwes09: “And a lot of us simply use reliable sources of facts to formulate opinion. Try it some time.” I do. That’s how I know Muslims are more of a threat to gays than Christians or Jews or Buddhists or Hindus.
joeyty
@dwes09: If you’re that much into espousing the (fictional) idea of a huge gulf between Muslim fanatics and “mainstream” Muslims then you’re a self-hating Jew and a self-hating gay. You are Roy Cohn, little boy.
dwes09
@joeyty: “Wasn’t a white Christian who tried to burn a thousand of us to death at the seattle Neighbors nightclub. And that’s with such a small Muslim population in the U.S. Imagine what it’ll be like as it gets larger ?”
Wasn’t a jihadist either, as someone with that ideological bent would NEVER have claimed he did it in a drunken stupor. And he was not an immigrant, but an American born citizen motivated more by hatred of gay people than by radical Islam. REALITY friend, try it sometime.
joeyty
@dwes09: Right. Not a Jihadist. An average Muslim. What does that tell you ???
dwes09
@joeyty: “That’s how I know Muslims are more of a threat to gays than Christians or Jews or Buddhists or Hindus.”
The issue here is the specific danger you imagine muslims in general pose to gay people. Get a grip. Get help, you are consumed by hatred and fear, and totally out of touch with reality.
And I am 65, I called you little boy because that clearly is what you are intellectually, if not literally. And as i said, provide proof of my self hatred from my WORDS, not from their position relative to your delusions. All you say is that I exhibit self hatred because i doubt the veracity of your imagined world. That is both incorrect and devoid of logic.
joeyty
@dwes09: I’ve known several Muslims that drank like fish (and smoked weed) and they all said “Jews are the devil” too. Right here in NYC.
joeyty
@dwes09: Of course I’ve got a lot of hatred and fear there. Fear is a good thing. Why wouldn’t I feel that way? Cetainly more sensible than your fear of Christianity. Let me ask you this: Do YOU want the U.S. overrun with so-called “moderate” Muslims ? For them to become the majority? Answer honestly.
xzall
Did people really forget what he said just a week ago?
Wallace then pressed Trump on whether he would appoint judges who would overturn Obergefell.
“I would strongly consider that, yes,” Trump declared.
joeyty
@dwes09: You still can’t answer about Obama’s mosque visit. Do you agree the Imam is homophobic or not ? And can’t you provide evidence of an equally homophobic church Obama’s visited ?
joeyty
@xzall: Maybe Trump likes to screw over the “moral” loons.
joeyty
@dwes09: Does Israel maintaining a military mean they’re consumed by “hatred and fear” ?
dwes09
@joeyty:”Right. Not a Jihadist. An average Muslim. What does that tell you ???”
It tells me that drunken homophobes do what drunken homophobes do. It does not tell me that he in some way exemplifies anything about either Islam or people with proper mental health. What does that tell you? (and by the way, excessive use of punctuation does nothing to strengthen your point, it only reveals poor writing skills).
When a drunken white Christian man kills a Sikh (as has happened more than once), because he cannot tell the difference between Sikhs and Muslims, do you similarly generalize about
white Christians? Didn’t think so. Both acts have a terrorist aspect, neither tells us anything about the general nature of either white Christians or Muslims (regardless of their ethnic make-up, as you seem unaware that Muslims like Jews are black, white, asian, middle eastern, and so on).
dwes09
@joeyty: “Does Israel maintaining a military mean they’re consumed by “hatred and fear” ?”
Israel is 20% Arab. They serve in the military, are represented in the Knesset and are overwhelmingly loyal to the country. You seem not to understand that when you speak from ignorance, you appear undeniably ignorant. You are totally in the dark about the dialogue that exists between Jewish, Muslim and Christian citizens of Israel regardless of their ethnicity.
And totally in the dark (as revealed in other series of comments) about gay life in Israel.
dwes09
@joeyty: “Cetainly more sensible than your fear of Christianity.”
My opinions about the treat of christian terrorism are taken entirely from actual events and statistics, as indicated from the wealth of links I provided from sources across the political spectrum. As I suspected you have not the intellectual strength to deal with them. Your opinions about everything, sad to say, seem to come entirely from your imagination, from anecdote, and from the fear-mongering of the right wing. I sincerely feel sorry for you.
But as you are not at all interested in the reality of things, there is no sense in continuing this discussion. You have no facts to offer, no real conclusions, no logically constructed support for your statement. Have fun living in a world of fear and misunderstanding.
1EqualityUSA
Reed in the wind.
joeyty
@dwes09: No, you don’t feel sincerely sorry for me. You’re quite annoyed and angry with me. Let’s start again, and I’ll give plenty of evidence for my points. First of all : the Baltimore mosque’s Imam’s position…? Are you saying the link I provided is wrong ? I’ll provide others for that one.
tjr101
It’s amazing the amount of people that support this guy. The level of stupidity. I hope the GOP nominates him.
joeyty
@dwes09: You didn’t answer the question. (And I know Israel much better than you do). Does maintaining a military mean Israel is consumed by hatred and fear ?
joeyty
@dwes09: Christians are the majority religion in the U.S. Of course I’m not going to generalize about Christians from one Christian killing a Sikh. Which Christian majority countries have capital punishment for homosexuality?
joeyty
@dwes09: Show some intellectual tenacity and personal integrity by answering : would you like to see the makeup of the U.S. become a moderate Muslim majority ?
joeyty
@dwes09: Answer those last four questions and then I’ll provide more links for Muslim homophobia. Especially in Europe. (From all across the political spectrum).
aldanzion
I’m feeling Trumpie..I can do my THANG…
I’m feeling Trumpie..You can do yo THANG…
Oh Donny, Big Donny,,Whats that THANG you do..
Tell me Donny,Oh, Donny,,Can I do my THANG with you?
Let me ruffle yo Hair,, and yo apprentice be..
So glad you told us..So glad you let it all hang out..
I’m feeling Trumpie, feelin Trumpie,Man you made my day..
Cause we’re doing our THANG,,Oh, Donny, want ya tell me..
Now, aint that GAY!
theodisc
You americans need to read what the gloss is for trumpery in the Oxford English Dictionary here: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trumpery He’s just licking gay derrière for votes. The definitions should help you decide which way you are all going withOUT him, lol.
1EqualityUSA
Orange is the new geek.
Stilinski26
feel like all politicans just uses LGBT rights a tool just to increase their popularity and votes.
1EqualityUSA
test
1EqualityUSA
“TrusTed.” Trus is a “pr0be” used in u!tras0und procedures involving one’s posterior.
1EqualityUSA
the auto-censor wouldn’t let this last comment fly for some reason. Credit goes to a commenter on Maddow’s show. Love it.
GayEGO
What does Trump say about my husband and I who are legally married?
batesnight
Love Trump! And I especially love how upset he makes those against them to the point where they need to make it known and post all about it from here to eternity as if that will give anyone an epiphany. Sad that it plagues their minds so deeply.
GayEGO
@batesnight: Trump makes me laugh! I like to hear his absurd comments! :>)
southsam7
It’s sad that LGBTQ and supporters are going after Trump. This is exactly what the status quo career politician Republicans want you to do, so that someone much more out of touch and homophobic can get in the White House.
People are so stupid. The masses will fall for anything. Trump is light years ahead of Ted Cruise and Jeb Bush on gay rights.
Tombear
Trump is smart! He realizes the gay voting bloc is powerful. He is also a great salesman who is trying to sell Gay America, him as President. I hope you guys and gals can see through this!!!!
David Bolton
“We’re going to bring people together.” Umm…. sure.
Bob LaBlah
As long as you have money he will be your friend, sexual orientation be damned.
hwc2016
LMAO Donald will say anything to get votes.