You’ll have to bear with Cait as she tells this story — and really it’s a funny story, we’re all going to be laughing soon — about how she came to be photographed in a Trump “Make America Great Again” hat mere days after the president announced a ban on transgender people in the military.
When she put on the hat, she didn’t realize she was putting on the hat, if you know what we mean. Oh, you don’t?
Huh…
Well here’s how TMZ tells it:
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Caitlyn tells TMZ she drove from her Malibu home to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, CA, in a 1960 Austin-Healey convertible. Before leaving home she realized she needed a hat … something better than a golf visor to protect her hair. So she rummaged through the 10 hats in her closet and grabbed one without looking at the stitching.
Classic. We can’t tell you the number of times we’ve accidentally worn racist, xenophobic slogans on our foreheads in the company car, which, incidentally, happens to be a 1960 Austin-Healey convertible.
But the story is far from over:
She says when she got to the club she threw the hat on the floor of the car, spent an hour or so hitting some balls and left. When she got to the car she grabbed the hat, saw the inscription and realized what she had done.
She tells us she was horrified because she now detests Trump after he tweeted about the military transgender ban. Caitlyn says, “What he’s doing to our community is absolutely f***ing awful.”
But Caitlyn had a dilemma on her hands … wear the hat home or screw up her ‘do. She chose the former, thinking no one was going to spot her. She wanted to stop at a Starbucks for a latte but exercised caution … a mile from the coffee joint she switched to the golf visor and walked inside.
When Caitlyn left, she switched again, deciding to wear the Trump hat home. She got halfway to her property when she realized she left her purse at Starbucks, which contained, among other things, her cellphone. Caitlyn panicked and raced back to retrieve her purse, forgetting she was wearing the hat.
She ran inside, grabbed the purse and drove home. At some point she realized she still had the hat on but thought she could make it back undetected. She was wrong. Caitlyn says a photog snapped the pic somewhere between Starbucks and her Malibu home.
Some day they’ll make a movie out of this.
As for the hat, Caitlyn has some strange plans moving forward:
She’s thinking of signing it and auctioning it off and giving the proceeds to a transgender cause.
And who wouldn’t want to own this piece of history?
“I apologize to all of the trans community,” Jenner added to TMZ. “I made a mistake. I will never do it again and I’m getting rid of the hat.”
Kangol
Caitlin Jenner’s self-loathing and internalized homophobia and transphobia are too deep to make her tragic. Please, just GO AWAY!
Giuseppe
I don’t think she’s self-loathing, I think she’s a true Republican that believes in everything that Trump is doing, especially the attempt at tax reform. But, being in the public eye for 40+ years, she knows the optics of things and how it effects her purse. Simple.
contrary1
She’s just an opportunistic beyatch…..
Bob LaBlah
It is what it is. A classic example of how to keep your name in the press and that million dollar paycheck coming in. There is no such thing as bad publicity and this thing knows it. Seriously, who cares what Jenner has to say? Who is he contributing to or supporting that makes what he does matter. He’s followed by paparazzi continuously but didn’t look in the rear view mirror and notice that hat? As long as the press give the impression this living creature has done or said some thing important it will be news.
Roan
Here’s your sign.
Heywood Jablowme
“We can’t tell you the number of times we’ve accidentally worn racist, xenophobic slogans on our foreheads in the company car, which, incidentally, happens to be a 1960 Austin-Healey convertible.”
Ha. Damn, Queerty, a sentence like THAT is why we love you.
If you can please just stop writing “plutonic” when you’re trying to say “platonic,” all will be forgiven!
KaiserVonScheiss
How is Make America Great Again a “racist, xenophobic slogan”?
Gilliflower
Assuming you’re not being disingenuous; Simply, put, because of the company it keeps. Make America great again, by itself is straight forward. Add the red, the cap, the capitalized first letter to each word, the orange hair, and all the toadies, and you have a recipe for an ironic symbol of hate. Simple. Betty Crocker would not approve, but simple.
Heywood Jablowme
Maybe you’d prefer something more innocuous like “Work Sets You Free”… or the German version “Arbeit Macht Frei”?
rbernard
Here is how KaiserVonScheiss, that cap with “Making America Great Again” was a “racist, xenophobic slogan”:
Donald Trump used that campaign slogan to become President. He said again and again, he would be the biggest friend the LGBTQ ever had and guess what, Trump LIED.
Here is how he lied: Donald Trump’s Attorney General filed a brief in court this very week making the argument that the LGBTQ should not be a protected class and should have no job protections. If you are gay and don’t find that court brief offensive enough, he also issued an order a week ago to expel all transsexuals out of the military effective immediately.
If those offensive anti-LGBTQ actions work for your politics KaiserVonScheiss, maybe, just maybe, you are visiting (trolling) the wrong queer website.
KaiserVonScheiss
@rbernard
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act only mentions biological sex, not sexual orientation.
“he also issued an order a week ago to expel all transsexuals out of the military effective immediately.”
The president issued no such orders.
Mandrake
How sad that wearing a hat with the President of the United States’ name on it is now an inflammatory insult of Xenophobia and racism and threatens the wearer with harm.
batesmotel
It wasn’t a racist xenophobe hat. It was a pro-America hat.
David Myers
You TROLLS talking to yourselves again eh?
aaparker
“The president issued no such orders”.
Incorrect.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/us/politics/trump-transgender-military.html
KaiserVonScheiss
@aaparker
What I said was totes correct.
I’ve yet to see any official orders implemented by the Pentagon.
Trump never said anything about expelling anyone from the military.
aaparker
You are splitting hairs, sorry. He called for the ban. It might not have been officially inplemented, but he expressly and publicly called for one. I’m not really sure what your purpose is in defending that. It shows a president who is willing to lash out a vulnerable groups when he feels cornered and has no concern with forward progress. I say again., I really don’t get your flimsy point.
Bob LaBlah
Here, mon Kaiser, is an article you might find interesting regarding the reign of your Donald the Great. One of the most arch neocon conservatives on this planet has clearly deserted him. Read it and weep.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-guardrails-hold/2017/08/03/fcfc157c-7877-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.38e41ff4dd3b
rbernard
Caitlyn is self loathing and her continued fascination with anti-LGBTQ Donald Trump and the BS excuse for wearing his cap is a major turn off.
I wish she would get out of the public eye and do something to atone like work in a homeless shelter for a few years.
ryantbo
F*** that B*****
When the story first came out, she was horrified. Then she pulls this. She has no loyalty to the gay or Trans community and is beyond irrelevant. Just GO AWAY Jenner. You are more of a disgrace now then you ever were
Giuseppe
She’s 100% for what Trump is doing, especially his attempt at tax reform, she just knows from being in the public eye for 40+ years that she has to decry him and what he stands for, secretly she does not.
isxios
Tax reform!
In America that seems to mean getting all the services the government provides, all the infrastructure, all the protections and such but not wanting to pay for it with taxes. The average American pays less in Taxes than most people do in the world, yet we are the whiniest little bitches about it, especially the wealthy whose only interest seems to be never having to give up a penny for anything other than their own interests. As a society, as a nation, that is simply not workable, and the conservative Free Market ideas, thanks to that hypocritical harpy Ayn Rand, are morally and ethically bankrupt, not to mention wholly incompatible with human nature.
jsmu
C*ntlyn, such a totally ostracized and impotent b*tch that she has to do this kind of shit just to get five minutes of news coverage at ALL now. Go get the job finished, Bruciepoo–you still pee standing up and we all know it.
STOP MAKING STUPID C*NTS LIKE THIS FAMOUS.
Heywood Jablowme
Tsk tsk, it’s very bad and transphobic to call her a “c***,” she may not have one.
crowebobby
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Heywood Jablowme
I think she got rid of her “cigar,” LOL.
heath0043
Why does she still have the hat? There is such a thing as a trash can. I mean if you “detest” the man.
He BGB
She’s someone that can shave her Adams apple,get boobs, bottom surgery (I think I heard she went through with it), but is still and will always be rich white male privilege born again & republican, everything the conservatives love. That she waited til she was 65 to go through the change makes it impossible to change her spots, so to speak, like the leopard. It isn’t just the hat. From day one she never educated herself but was too interested in makeup and pretty clothes instead of what it really means to be transgender.
n1spirit
Enough with the “white male privilege” bullshit already… Just F*** off if you’ve nothing to contribute but divisive comments (much the same as Trump I might add).
David Myers
People tried to educate her and give her support. She stubbornly resisted all efforts to change her privileged perspective preferring to be an “upper class” pro-republican transperson. She wanted the sympathy and support of the Trans community AND to keep her white privilege rich person perspective . . . so screw her . . . she had a chance to change her perspective and empathize with and support other persons (other than the rich and privileged) and she declined. She voted for Trump let her piss and moan about his attacks on Trans rights with out our sympathy . . . it’s too little, too late!
Kieran
Don’t pay any attention to “David Myers”. He is a known troll who posts only to make liberals seem stupid.
Rex Huskey
very well put.
to ntspirit: you’re the dirt bag idiot with nothing to contribute. Shut your dirty Sanchez pie hole!
Rex Huskey
to Kieran: well reasoned articulate thoughts make you nervous? Trust me, no one needs to post anything to make you stupid….forget about “seem”!
Marvellis1
I was very impressed with Bruce Jenner, and understand that gender identity is a difficult journey. It is probably impossible for Caitlyn to keep out of the public eye. This kind of media attention and “Mr. DeMille close up” publicity, never ends well. Sunset Boulevard, big star, television coverage daily; it is a little sad. She chose this option, and to a degree it succeeds. Hollywood Ending, maybe not. Let’s hope not.
scotshot
Caitlyn Jenner chose to be in the spotlight. There wouldn’t be any coverage of her without her more than willful cooperation.
jckfmsincty
She’s the Uncle Tom of the transgender community.
Danny595
What does any of this have to do with gay people?
re_horst
I don’t believe a word from his republican mouth about the hat story. Someone as vein as him would have looked in a mirror before leaving the house. I refuse to call him “her”. He’s a disgrace to the trans community.
n1spirit
“Vein” is something that moves blood from one point of the body to another. “Vain”, on the other hand, is a term that DOES closely relate to vanity.
I’m not going to argue the merits of Jenner, whether she’s a disgrace to the trans community or not. (Personally, I think pretty much the entire family there is a waste of our attention. I mean, seriously?? We don’t have anything more important to discuss in this world than the vanity of the Jenner/Kardashian clan? I’d like to take a f***ing pass on that mess.)
What I WILL say is that our country does need some help in becoming great again. We were never perfect… But there was a time when people actually worked for what they wanted/desired, rather than demanding a handout. Does that mean I support Trump? Hell, NO! That particular brand of douche bag clearly isn’t worthy of sitting in the oval office but that doesn’t mean that every Republican is our enemy and it sure as hell doesn’t mean that every Democrat is our friend or has our best interests at heart.
As a 54-year old gay man, registered as a Democrat since I was able to vote thirty-six years ago, I can assure you I’ve seen and taken issue with my fair share of conservative, close-minded actions over the years but equally horrifying is the crap, self-aggrandizing efforts of far too many among the left. How about we just shut it for once, when it comes to making blanket, bullshit statements/accusations and start encouraging some positive, constructive dialogue for a change.
Xzamilloh
Be the change you want, n1spirit. Instead of preaching to anonymous people on the internet, take your happy ass outside and do something out there instead of trying to be morally superior to people in the comment section of Queerty
Rex Huskey
to ntspirit: let me affirm and confirm what most folks on here are thinking: You are a shallow ignorant asshole! Excusez mon français. Kiss kiss!
scotshot
n1spirit
One of the new breed Troll Templates. Trash Trump and the pubs, but save the brunt for all for us libruls who can’t think for themselves.
Keep quiet and behave yourselves and Trump will give us everything we wish for, correct? You have no awareness of Stonewall and life before the onset of HIV/AIDS as you were a child as such no memory of the work and the fight to even get aid.
Tête Carrée
@n1spirit
“I’ve every intention of voting for Donald Trump”
Sound familiar?
http://quipsnquills.com/wordpress/?p=20421
captainburrito
This is one of the situations where, even if the story is true, you just simplify it down and apologize. These kinds of stories just make you lose any dignity you might have left. Even if that is at zero it can still go negative.
jhbravo
There is a lot of judgment in this post.
Daniel
She doesn’t think we deserve equal rights. How about we start with taking away hers (not the rest of the trans community)? Oh how I detest this woman.
Kieran
This is just a distraction from our LGBTQ goal of transgender potties for everybody. We’re forgetting our mission.
David Myers
You missed the troll fest earlier. Or are you another bot of KaiserVonScheiss’s clone crowd? Begone TROLL you have no power here!
Rex Huskey
To Kieran: “our” goal….surely you must have a mouse in your pocket for you do not represent anyone I know on here! You fool.
enlightenone
“FAKE” transwoman. “You lie!”
Danny595
“Fake transwoman” is redundant.
scotshot
Danny595
“Fake trans woman is not redundant. Think about it. It could be a new sitcom on FOX.
BriBri
She stood up to piss too!
Karlis
Bruce Jenner was a jock, and not a particularly bright one, seeing as how he got all tangled up with the Kardashians. It’s no surprise that his female version is also not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
kuma6963
So well put
My2Cents
So let’s me get this right. She has been a supporter and trumpeter for this baboon presidential candidate who promised her he would not screw over her people while promising to screw all the others. Said Buffon has never kept his promises before, including not paying people who have performed work for him. In fact, he was known to change policies and positions mid-sentence. Yet she still supported him and reveled in his win.
Fast forward to him tweeting a threat to harm her sacred trans community and she expressing her obligatory “disappointment ” with him. Cue our disdain at the hypocrisy and stupidity of these two.
One of them we can’t ignore but this bitch we surely can. Queerly, We need no more stories on this pathetic excuse for a human.
David Myers
Here here! Thank you!!!
Brody
All of this hand-wringing over a freaking HAT?!?
Folks, it’s time to adopt a cause worthy of your fury, and a MAGA-hat-wearing-dude-in-a-skirt ain’t it.
BigWill
Ah, Mo…Brody…Moby…Moldy…Trollby? I was just about to ask where you were, as this is just this just the kind of thing that incites your always-enlightening opinion. You never fail to disappoint.
isxios
She’s an idiot, basically!
Rex Huskey
agree. a failed role model for the cause.
Rock Star
I never liked her even when she was a man because he was such an uptight asshole. On that “Cardassian” (sorry start trek) show he was always saying right wing shit and now we’re supposed to believe she has changed since the 45 announcement. She is still an asshole. If she really hated 45 she would have thrown that hat away immediately. Lying sack o poop.
Invader7
Man. She be so ugly. With all of that Jenner / Kartrashian money you think Miss Thang would have gotten better plastic surgery /make up/something. But her politics and right wing BS reek to the heavens. I wonder if Caitlyn will still be licking Hair Fuerher’s bung hole when he tries to ban Gay & Lesbians from Public Services – see the baker’s lawsuit before the Supreme Court ; with that Neo-Fascist Gorsuch probably ruling in favor of the BIGOTED bakery owner , the right wing assholes will use that as justification to NOT provide public TAX payer funded services: fire, police, paramedics, ER care,etc. Just wait -it’s coming. That is what the Neo-Nazi right wingers want to happen all over America.) And Caitlyn and her fellow right wing Pro-Drumpf supporters will be the ones to blame. So what ever “fame” Caitlyn enjoys ,maybe someone will correct her Neo-Nazi fascist beliefs a,but she’s too comfortable in her bubble of denial and white male privilege !!!
rmarin776
Can we please hate Caitlyn Jenner’s politics without hating on her transgender identity or appearance? She’s politically horrible, but that has nothing to do with her transition, her looks, or the transgender community as a whole.