When you’re named after one of your parents, there’s an expectation to carry on a legacy.
And if your name is Donald Trump Jr., that legacy is 97% about actively trying to be Twitter’s biggest douche.
In this, Trump Jr. is excelling.
The President’s son took to Twitter Tuesday night to lash out at the first openly gay American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, Adam Rippon.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The Tweet came in response to a reprt in The Hill that quoted Rippon saying he didn’t want his entire Olympic experience in South Korea to revolve around his tension with Mike Pence.
Really? Then Perhaps you shouldn’t have spent the past few weeks talking about him. I haven’t heard him mention you once??? https://t.co/8lcCsoyBsq
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 14, 2018
But if he’s going to be a Twitter troll, he needs to spend more time on Twitter.
Then maybe he would have seen Mike Pence doing the exact thing he says Mike Pence didn’t do:
.@Adaripp I want you to know we are FOR YOU. Don’t let fake news distract you. I am proud of you and ALL OF OUR GREAT athletes and my only hope for you and all of #TeamUSA is to bring home the gold. Go get ‘em!
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) February 8, 2018
We can’t imagine why Adam would want to refocus his energy on the biggest skating performances of his life rather than try to unpack the lies and propaganda of Pence’s tweet.
The adoption of “fake news” is especially nauseating, as if there aren’t ample reliable sources documenting the Vice President’s unwaverinng antigay past:
Related: Read Mike Pence’s article advising employers never to hire gay people
Related: That time Donald Trump joked Mike Pence wants to ‘hang all the gays’
Related: Mike Pence just tried to revise his history on HIV and conversion therapy — here’s the real story
Related: Mike Pence’s Seven Most Vicious Homophobic Moments (There’s A Lot To Choose From)
Twitter was not having Trump Jr.’s idiocy:
Hey, Don…It’s really not like you to get your facts wrong…What would your father say about you spreading FAKE NEWS? SAD! pic.twitter.com/yngPsDhTFj
— Eoin O'Callaghan (@EoinOCallaghan) February 14, 2018
Well pences office did want to arrange a meeting!
— Cameron McDonald (@cam2000deluxe) February 14, 2018
— Grizzly Chief (@Grizzly_Chief) February 14, 2018
Mike Pence tweeted about him explicitly.
— C (@c_f_392) February 14, 2018
You not paying attention isn't exactly news. But here ya go: https://t.co/nEa20WvetD
— Beth Gould (@ABGEsquire) February 14, 2018
Dude, go. Away. Shut up. Please. Pence hasn’t talked about him? Yes. Yes he has. Pence has also, in his lifetime, been a prejudicial dickbag against all gay people.
— Tal (@giantcu92) February 14, 2018
Remember when you and your family said to keep politics out of sports? Oh wait! That’s when it fits your agenda. Leave Rippon alone JR
— ginny allee (@Crazyginny) February 14, 2018
joseph_buscarino
Is this really shocking new? I mean isnt he always a douche? just like daddy, or more so really lol
Juanjo
So the kid who has been riding his daddy’s coattails his entire life is throwing shade on the Olympic medal winner?
Danny595
In a fight between an elephant murderer and an effeminate, the ideal outcome is if both lose.
shakes_head
Drink bleach, scum sucker.
Greg
Why you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, nerf herder!
tham
?? ?? ????
I just want to post something our Russian friend could understand.
tham
Ahh this board doesn’t understand Russian…let me phonicaly say it.
Ja ljublju kadetov video. And I do, I love the cadet video
Danny595
Wow, I didn’t realize the elephant murderer had fans here.
CastleSF
I am sure Adam has worked really hard to get where he is today and we need to acknowledge his efforts and talents. On the other hand, he would be more accepted if he just acts more like a man, like Greg Louganis, whom I truly admire.
TheGregoryProject
CastleAF you’re apart of the problem.
Danny595
@TheGregoryProject – CastleSF is not part of any problem. Maybe it required a new generation or 2, but we are here now. And we are going to sort ourselves out, fix the mistakes that were made by past generations and make life better for LGBs. The era of alienation, queerness, affectation, self-degradation and promiscuity is over and the train is leaving the station for a better destination. You can get on board or get out of the way.
ChrisK
@Danny595 Yeah, and hopefully you’ll be under it you POS.
ChrisK
@CastleSF Well, at least you got the Danny troll to agree with you. Of coarse I’m not sure I’d want that notch in my belt.
CastleSF
@Chris. Most gays are attracted to gracefully masculine and normal acting men, not macho nor obsessed with sex or porn. I am just saying that if Adam acts in a more masculine manner, he will be more popular with the normal acting gays.
dwes09
“Most gays are attracted to gracefully masculine and normal acting men, not macho nor obsessed with sex or porn. ”
You don’t speak for most or even for many gay men, but are too naive, too self absorbed and too provincial to understand that. Most of your comments are laughable. Danny595’s comments in your support are hilariously so. REALLY? Two children willfully ignorant of their own history can fix the “mistakes” made by those who laid their livelihood, and sometimes lives on the line for full enfranchisement? You do know, do you not, that is it your generation fueling the increased spread of HIV among gay men? Not from the “perversions” you so self-righteously click your tongue at, but from the lack of understanding of and interest in history you demonstrate, as well as this odd myth that HIV is a generational thing. And I thought science and logic were still taught in school. Guess your political idols managed to kill that.
This combination of arrogance, ignorance and stupidity is at best sickening.
Do the city of San Francisco a favor and leave, maybe go to Arkansas or Georgia where you will be more accepted.
And by the way, you clearly know little about Louganis. Despite his greatness as an athlete, he did not come out until his career was over. Even so he is not the brainless apologist for the alt-right that you are, nor is he regressive in his views, nor would he so callously demonize his gay brothers because they do things he might childishly find “icky”. And you can bet he would die before being the graceless twit you are. As I have said before, Thank God regressives comprise only about 15% of gay folks at this point. We are mostly smart enough to recognize where our self interest lies.
CastleSF
@dwes. What I find amusing is that the anger in your comments is so undeniably palpable. What I merely stated is that many gays find other masculine men who carry themselves like a man, most attractive. It’s my observation and my opinion and you don’t have to agree with them. The way you responded seems as if someone had twisted a knife in your heart. You are stubbornly defensive of your generation, which indeed has done a lot of good for the civil rights but which has also inflicted the terrible HIV upon gays in the 80s and 90s. Your views are so tainted with biases that I can only imagine how insufferable it must be to be with someone like you.
dwes09
Nobody twisted a knife in my heart. I am just annoyed by stupidity and tiny minds. Perhaps angered by those who are so dull they take their ignorance to be fact.
And child, you demonstrate all of that.
Get over yourself.
As i said, you speak for perhaps 15% of gay men, and that is neither many, nor those who are particularly thoughtful. Opinions are only as good as what they are based on. When based on assumptions or anecdote (and yours are based on nothing more than that) they are worthless, regardless of your “right to them”. My business puts me in contact with many Millennials, both gay and straight, US born and foreign: let me tell you, you are so far removed from their beliefs and actions as to have more in common with the most conservative folks in their 80’s and 90’s. That too is anecdote, but more congruent with what surveys say about the beliefs of that generation.
And you think you are the arbiter of the proper way gay folks should look and act so as to placate straight folks (as well as “normal” gay people, by which you seem to essentially mean yourself)!? You might need to seek professional help.
dwes09
” Your views are so tainted with biases “!!
I can’t resist this. I was/am calling YOU on your biases, child. You claim to speak for gay men, you claim to know what constitutes the proper and healthy way to be for all gay men, you claim your opinions and likes/dislikes are those of most or many gay men. You even claim to know how to win the respect of all heterosexuals (by behaving like you apparently).Those are biases. Schooling you in the fact that there are many ways in which people can express themselves personally, sexually and through gender presentation, and that no one way is the only way does not make me biased. Believing as you do makes you biased.
And as a final comment, even if Rippon adhered to your code of proper masculine gayness Pence would still believe that discrimination against us was his religious right, would still believe we should be in the closet and perhaps seen as criminals, would still believe our marriages were a sham and a travesty.
I would not be surprised if deep inside you did not believe some of that as well.
You must think that having room for those who choose to be less masculine is bias. You must think that respecting those who respect others regardless of their gender presentation is bias. You must think that believing there is more than one way to be “properly” gay is the worst bias of all.
DCguy
I love how Donny Junior somehow thinks that Pence passing laws to attack lgbts is “Not mentioning him” Gee, the guy has made it a priority of his political life to attack anybody like him and now Donny Jr. is nursing hurt feelings because the guy doesn’t want to meet with a hateful bigot.
Oh, and Don Jr. you don’t understand Adam because you have nothing in common….he worked for his accomplishments.
Kangol
Don the Con Jr., a prison cell awaits you, traitor!*
*Don Jr. committed behavior that was “treasonous and unpatriotic” – Steve Bannon
IanHunter
I hope he drops the soap.
Shantii
The point is, the President’s family traditionally carries themselves with more discretion than that, and it’s what we should expect and demand. I don’t think it’s inappropriate at all to call this out every time they stomp all over our cultural norms. In fact, when we stop calling attention to it is when it becomes tacitly approved. Decency matters.
Brody
Even I’LL admit that the Trumps need to tweet less.
Kieran
Let Trump be Trump. Who wouldn’t tweet a lot with 50 million followers?
Brody
Much as I love me some Trump, Kieran, I still think it would be a good idea to have an ombudsman of some sort to clean up any of the indelicacies that occasionally peek through to make him seem petty.
Of course, having said that, I’m aware that no amount of Twitter discretion will silence his critics, so you’re probably right that we should just let Trump Trump for Trump’s sake.
dwes09
” make him seem petty.”
Make him SEEM petty?
What world do you live in?
He is as petty as they come.
Learn to think.
Jaxton
Adam Rippon acted like a douche for bringing Mike Pence into the picture. Be out but don’t be a douche, Adam.
paul dorian lord fredine
seems you personally know an awful lot about being a douche, douchewad
dwes09
So, being realistic and responding with courage to the people who hate your very nature is being a douche?
What is with you people?
Do you think the proper response to our real enemies is to kowtow and lick their asses?
Perhaps that is what you do, but it is not what those with self esteem do.
Stilinski26
Does this kid got a daddy crush on Pence ever since hes been there he can’t stop talking about Pence lol
dwes09
Pence is not a bad looking man, but his dark and withered soul kind of distracts. And this article is referencing a tweet by TRUMP JR. The interchange between Pence and Rippon has not been extensive.
Your comment makes no sense if you read the article and noted the dates of the tweets Trump Jr was responding to.
mhoffman953
He should focus more on trying to win gold medals instead of obsessing over Mike Pence
tham
And you need to….meh, I think you’re aborable, like my racist grandmother. The things that come out of her mouth…but she’s so cute. Like a furry little tiny raisin.
mhoffman953
@tham
I remember the things that have come out of your mouth when you said Kevin Spacey did nothing wrong: https://www.queerty.com/kevin-spacey-faces-many-claims-routinely-preyed-young-men-20171101
dwes09
What exactly is “wrong” with Spacey coming on to men of legal age? Tactless, crude, lecherous, odd? It is certainly all of those things when referring to a 17 year old, but certainly not illegal. Trump has done worse with women, even using rank to peep at girls in their early teens! Several in his administration have apparently done similar things with women.
And it is only some of those things when coming on inappropriately to older men. How many men have NOT been groped in a bar (or even on the street) when they were in their 20’s or 30’s, and how many of them were “traumatized” if it was a man they desired? You just say “no thanks”, or worse if they don’t get the message if its a man you don’t. And if it is a straight man being groped, it is high time they understood how women feel about it.
Truly some of the things that come out of your mouth are the product of a disordered mind (what the pope and other religious nuts say ALL of us gay folks have)! In a previous post someone referred to you as a Jew. I am absolutely ashamed if i share that ethnicity with one as regressive as you.
nmharleyrider
He’s as a big a douche as his father, maybe bigger because he is younger and should have a more moderate and modern attitude
He BGB
Junior.
darren michaels
It’s one thing to share the name but who could have known they share a brain as well.
I suppose it should have been obvious both Sr. & Jr. appear to suffer from a recurring case of
“lac-o-fax”. Dishonesty and just making shit up appears to be a family trait, that and waiting for the previous generation to die so the younger can claim personal success. Inheriting cash is the only way DJT could finally claim how successful he’s become.
Don Jr. should really stay out of what he continues to prove he knows nothing about and stick to what dad taught him “wife #2 might be anywhere keep looking”.
Bob LaBlah
Hey Donald, lets see how YOUR butt job turned out. If you haven’t had one like Adam clearly has maybe you should consider it. I hope your wife isn’t as irritating as you clearly are.
KaiserVonScheiss
So simple criticism is an “attack”? Was Rippon’s criticism of Pence an “attack”?
This is just ridiculous.
dwes09
Rippon’s comments were based on who Pence is and what he has said in the past. So no, they were not an attack, they were a reasonable statement that Rippon does not want to meet with a man who has acknowledged that they hate his very nature.
And Trump Jr’s response was based entirely on his ignorance of the actual interchange between Pence and Rippon. So, yes, it was an attack, and a stupid one at that.
Are you too dense to understand these things?
I thought you had some meager intellect.
KaiserVonScheiss
@dwes09 So erroneous criticism is an “attack”?
IanHunter
Little Donnie Jr. doesn’t know anything that is going on in the world. He should shut up and keep running his daddy’s shops into bankruptcy.
cttimberwolf56
Not sure if anyone else noticed the photo of JR looks like he is about to go down on Adam or he is practicing his look for jail great pose sucker LMAO
Brody
Not sure why you think it’s the ultimate insult to accuse him of being one of us.
GayEGO
Well, as Ben Carson said – “Being in jail makes you gay.”, another Dotard!
dwes09
Never thought I’d agree with Brody or the other regressives here trolling. But even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Nothing wrong with sucking dick, and it does not compromise someone’s masculinity or personhoos.
dwes09
(personhood)!
GayEGO
I notice there are a lot of words starting with the letter “D” when referring to a Trump e.g. Dufus, Douche, Dummy, Dotard etc. oh, and of course, Donnie and Donald!
Isn’t this getting…..oh another “D” word – Disgusting!
ChrisK
Nope but I also agree. My preference is Dotard.
Notright
Wait so Rippon attacked his dad and now Jr is a troll for responding? I’m glad that queen didn’t make gold. I wonder how many people would be crying ‘racism!’ if he attacked Obama the way he attacked Trump. https://rainbowright.com
dwes09
Use your brain much? Clearly it is hard for you to pay attention.
Rippon-criticized-PENCE.
Pence-has- made-many anti-gay-statements.
Trump Jr- responded- out -of -ignorance-of-Rippon’s-and-Pence’s-actual-complete-interaction.
There, did that make it easier for your little child-mind?
And what makes you think a reference to Obama, who actually did not and does not demonize gay people, is relevant at all? Are you even stupider than you appear to be?
And why would anybody who can actually use their brain as God intended cry racism if one were to criticize Obama for an actual action or policy?
I try so hard not to laugh at people like you, but you defeat me with your relentless dullness of mind.
Jaxton
Adam Rippon should be able to take it and not just give it.