Donald Trump Jr. is openly sniggering at LGBTQ college students in Pittsburgh who are upset Chick-fil-A is coming to campus.
As you probably know, the fast-food chicken purveyors have a long history of donating millions to virulently antigay organizations. The Cathy family, who lead the corporation, are not above taking jabs at the notion of same-sex marriage, which they’re quite against.
Related: Chick Fil-A Wants You To Forget About Their Homophobic Past
Donald Trump Jr. is of the opinion the students’ bellyaching is the silly noise of a bunch of crybabies:
How about we take this to the next level?
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Luckily these students wont likely have to tackle issues more stressful than a yummy chicken sandwich in their lives… Oh Wait #triggered https://t.co/NRLtsHBSLn
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 13, 2017
“Luckily these students wont likely have to tackle issues more stressful than a yummy chicken sandwich in their lives,” he joked Thursday morning. “Oh Wait #triggered”
Then he links to the article “University’s LGBT Students ‘Fear’ Arrival Of Chick-fil-A,” published on right-wing site The Daily Caller and written by David Krayden.
Related: Chick-Fil-A Isn’t Antigay Enough For These Crazed Conservatives
“It’s not about the chicken sandwiches,” he writes, “but the fact that the corporation had the temerity to support traditional marriage during the same-sex marriage debate.”
That is, of course, not true. The organization has a long history of donating millions of dollars to hate groups like Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage, both of whom have made fighting marriage equality and diversity their mission statement.
After being widely banned and sharply criticized after their donation history became public knowledge in 2012, Chick-fil-A issued a statement that they would no longer donate to those particular organizations.
But as David Badash of TNCRM writes, Chick-fil-A already
“donated at least $5 million to organizations (including a certified hate group) that… depict gay people as pedophiles, want to make ’gay behavior’ illegal, and even say gay people should be ’exported’ out of America.”
Twitter is wildly displeased about Trump Jr.’s tweet:
@DonaldJTrumpJr You're actually a bigger fucking idiot than your old man.
Amazing.
— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) April 13, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr Spoken like a person with tons of privilege and ZERO understanding of what LGBTQ students struggle with in an unwelcoming world. Shame.
— David Plante (@davidmplante42) April 13, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr @FLOTUS how's that social media anti-bullying campaign going??
— Amy Rovin (@MomRovin) April 13, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr Super cool of you to take some time off from grifting to tweet about them. Thanks for your leadership.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 13, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr pic.twitter.com/UxJMsfe8BC
— Josh Sánchez (@jnsanchez) April 13, 2017
1EqualityUSA
If Jr. wasn’t so busy tweeting hate, perhaps his Titan-Atlas business in South Carolina may not have turned into a rusty, polluted mess. Daddy formed a company which bought out the crybaby’s debt before bankruptcy kicked in. Then they tried to stick So. Carolina with the bill for toxic clean-up. (Fitting, that what the Trumps left behind was a toxic mess.)
“The elder Mr. Trump created an entity called D B Pace, which took over the loan and the six-acre Titan Atlas site.
Last year, D B Pace applied to take part in a state program that would limit the company’s liabilities for pollution on the property, like chemical contamination of groundwater.
To qualify for such protection, however, the buyer of a contaminated property must not be affiliated with a former owner or have had earlier involvement with the site. The safeguard is in place to prevent polluters from evading their legal responsibilities.” NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/business/energy-environment/trump-organization-titan-environmental-cleanup.html
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-tries-to-stick-sc-taxpayers-with-bill-for-trump-jr-s-mess-854853699850
ChrisK
Makes sense in light of Trump gutting the EPA.
KaiserVonScheiss
He’s not wrong. The mainstream left, which dominates the LGBT community, are a bunch of pusillanimous twats obsessed with identity politics.
Palto
Said the troll from the safety of his keyboard. I’m sure your mother got it from behind a few times from your dad. He should’ve been snipped.
ChrisK
Pot meet your kettle.
DarkZephyr
I think most are just “obsessed” with being treated with respect and equality actually. A battle that you are benefiting from even as you deride it. Assuming you are LGBT yourself and not an interloping cis heterosexual bigot.
RussBBinVegas
I agree ! If only Junior would come out with a perfume, like his sister. “Eau de drumpf B.O.” Then we could ALL smell like his asshole.
mujerado
Kaiser Von Scheiss = Emperor of sh!t. That pretty much says it all.
KaiserVonScheiss
@DarkZephyr
Identity politics is not equality, at least not equality under the law. It’s quite the opposite.
kehvan
You’re 100% correct.
This is an issue that’s caused more derision between me and other gay men. I’ve even had men who wouldn’t date me, because we disagreed on something political. As a pot smoking atheist, I’m not even a republican, but over and over again the attitudes and opinions of many in our community are summed up with a sneering, “oh you’re a republican,” followed by the dismissal of anything I say. It’s petty, it’s ignorant, and it is 100% on the backs of the people who engage in this line of argumentation to fix. Yet, they don’t think there is anything to fix, which is absolutely, categorically, THE PROBLEM.
Too many of those who claim to represent the gay community, are really only representing one thing: tribalistic partisanship for the left. What makes it worse than mere political partisanship is an open use of tactics against their political enemies they’d never excuse if used against their own side. This form of partisanship is really toxic, it doesn’t garner respect, and it only drags the body politic in one direction: down.
Almost none of what the left has done in the past 20 years embodies the peace and love ‘liberals’ claim to espouse, which, for me, means they’re not really liberal, they’re just left wing.
kehvan
DarkZephyr said, “I think most are just “obsessed” with being treated with respect and equality actually.”
Wow, you’re an arrogant twat. You are not given respect: you Earn respect. You really made my whole point in my comment to the OP.
DCguy
So says one of the screenames of the guy who constantly faints with rage if anybody dares mention Trump.
Mo Bro
Bingo.
You, sir, win a prize.
Mo Bro
@kehvan:
I think I love you (or, at the very least, strongly agree with your philosophies).
GayEGO
Sieg Heil der Kaiser!
BCbreeze75
Could not agree with you more.
Mandrake
Is it too much common sense to simply not patronize them if you don’t like their views on GLBT issues? I think the bottom line here is to sell chicken sandwiches.
ChrisK
I’d say funding anti gay organisations is more then just “having a view”.
kehvan
You’re correct.
Oh, and ChrisK, the restaurant isn’t “anti gay.” They just sell food. They even employ gay people. And in the end, if you’re not going to eat some place, because someone in that company doesn’t like gay people, then I got news for you, there’s “anti gay” people in every single organization you will encounter. Now of course, proof is impossible, but I’d bet money that all of us know a person who has actively engaged in anti gay opinions and views, but we’d never suspect they do.
As we going to go on a witch hunt to find them all, then eject them from ‘society’?
1EqualityUSA
86,000 vowed to eat this food when Mike Huckabee got all of the haters to join him. That’s a bit more than “not liking us.”
“The goal is simple: Let’s affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick Fil-A on Wednesday, August 1. (2012)
DCguy
Yes, the restaurant IS anti-lgbt. The owner receives money as a private owner and funds anti-LGBT groups, gives free office space to anti-LGBT groups and helped fund a group that pushed the “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda.
But nice try.
He BGB
What a little c*nt.
Brian
I used to work in an office a few doors down from a Chick fil A. They’d come by with coupons for free sandwiches, and we’d decline. They’d point out that the coupon didn’t require any purchase — you could get a sandwich completely for free. Everyone would still turn it down. I’m not convinced their sandwiches are so great. This isn’t just my opinion; it was an entire company turning down the coupons every single week, year after year. If their bigotry isn’t enough to stop a new store from opening, I’d still expect the students to ask for better food options. Even other fast food companies serve better food.
ChrisK
Most of the people that I see eating there are pretty young. People that will eat just about anything that tastes good and is quick. The In and out crowd. This isn’t healthy food in any way though.
Brian
By fast food standards, I’d say their chicken is pretty tasty.
am_psi
Trump implies people are triggered crybabies …and they immediately prove him correct.
DarkZephyr
Nobody is “crying”.
natekerchel
Defending yourself and your rights is not crying. It’s fighting back against against the ignorance of people like trump and his supporters/defenders who lack integrity and understanding of how to celebrate difference.
Mo Bro
My thought exactly.
natekerchel
No MO BRO – you and I are not agreeing on this. Celebrating difference does not include passing legislation to humiliate minorities you don’t approve of. Celebrating difference is not about calling a whole nation ‘rapists and murderers’. Celebrating difference is not about making it acceptable to sexually assault women or children when you feel like it just because you are rich or powerful or a right wing christian bigot.
Celebrating difference is about accepting people for who they are and not trying to make their lives a misery because you don’t like them. You and I have very different ideas about celebrating difference – your idea is to defend the dregs of political and religious society who go around bullying, discriminating against, sexually assaulting and otherwise just being nasty to anyone they choose.
BCbreeze75
Poor little Triggered crybabies… Go back to your Safe Space.
chuck
I guess ignorance runs in his family. Yet another A hole?
Albert Smit
If I had a call-girl for a mother and another call-girl for a step-mother, I would rather keep quiet.
BCbreeze75
And your hateful words are different how?
Jack Meoff
He is definitely his fathers son isn’t he. Twitter is not that families friend.
Bellerophon69
I’d say something about the Dumbass POS, but the Twitterverse seems to have that covered pretty good; if the Trumps would just keep their mouths (and Tweets) to themselves, they wouldn’t look so spoiled and stupid. You can put gold leaf on a turd, it’s still a turd. You can put spray tan on and grease in your hair, but Donald Jr. is just as big a turd as his namesake.
BriBri
#TriggerMeTimbers I’m sure the Chik Fil A will be abducting homos and sending them to concentration camps in Chechnya.
Palto
You first homo.
BCbreeze75
Close your eyes, click your heels 3 times, and say… There’s no place like safe spaces, there’s no place like save spaces, there’s no place like safe spaces. LOL
Palto
Bashing gays is an easy distraction. He’s learning from that old man of his, he wants to take the attention away from bigger news he’s involved in.
Brian
What gays did he bash? He’s insulting delicate, snowflake college students who are incapable of living outside of an echo chamber.
toronto
Tried Chick Garbage one time at Cedar Point. Horrible. Gosh, why to people like it? Never again.
Palto
I hope Chump supporters eat it in defiance of gay people. It clogs the arteries.
JaredMacBride
Adults do not need trigger warnings. Living in the real world is plenty of warning that things won’t always go your way.
stadacona
Right on , Don Jr!!!! The SJW’s are a disgrace!
Record Man
The family who owns this corporation have a right to spend their cut of the profits in any way they choose. Even when they support odious fringe groups like the notorious “National Organization for Marriage.”
And I have a right to refuse to patronize their business so I won’t indirectly contribute to the hate groups they help to fund.
And I will keep doing just that.
Brian
I gave up keeping track of what we’re supposed to be boycotting a long, long time ago. If I’m not gonna boycott Amazon because of their horrific employment practices, what’s the point of boycotting anything else?
Plus, I can accept that people are allowed to have stupid opinions. That’s way preferable to the progressive hive mentality that’s turned college students into what they are today.
DCguy
Oh look, a subtle troll trying to defend violent anti-lgbt bigotry. Give me a break, you fake trolls are just sad.
jckfmsincty
That stupid apple didn’t fall far from the stupid tree.
DCguy
I love how they KEEP trying to push this guy as a politician and they keep failing.
These Trump kids actually have the nerve to think they are really good at something, and earned their positions.
During the GOP convention they had P.R. leaks talking about how wonderfully he did, and what a great speech he wrote and pushing him as a candidate for Congress. And then plagerism claims came out and it turned out somebody else wrote his speech.
Then try did a puff piece on him in the NYTimes and started trying to drop leaks about him running for Governor as a test balloon. And then he was mocked for the interview and the picture so they failed there.
IT’s so funny it’s sad. If these kids didn’t get to work for their daddy trying to prop up his bankrupt businesses by getting loans from Russia and China they would be working at Dairy Queen mopping up Dilly-Bar vomit.
Mo Bro
Just another example of manufactured outrage from the perpetually outraged.
Division is what progs strive for, and their “outrage” is nothing more than liberal fashion.
DCguy
Awwww, the screname that spawned 10 other screenames who comes in here in hysterics asking for it’s smelling salts every time somebody mentions Trump wants to pretend others are perpetually outraged.
Well aren’t you and the other accounts from a random Moldovan bot farm just adorable.
1EqualityUSA
DCGuy, I love your “Moldovan bot farm.”
Daniel-Reader
The sheer amount of hormones used to raise chickens is horrifying if you care about your health.
Donald Dork
Would someone please bash the Chumps heads in? Not a single redeeming quality in any of them
miserylovedme24
Honestly? I don’t care. Chick-Fil-A is delicious, and I’d go there more often if I had one close to me. Unfortunately they only just recently started opening in Michigan, so I can only get it when in the Detroit area. Otherwise I’d be there even more. Besides the fantastic chicken, in my experience, they treat their employees incredibly well. I’ve never had better fast food service than at CFA locations.
BCbreeze75
Agree, and the breakfast rocks also.
Ken A.
These queerbabies are annoying. Whining over a homophobic owned franchise. These are just the bigger ripples compared to what those at Stonewall went through and many before them. This is minor. Yes, they’re homophobic, so what. Instead of whining about it, go vegetarian or vegan. Go eat somewhere else.
1EqualityUSA
In August, Huckabee was making his grand pollo-stand, but by September, the company backed out of the controversy and stopped funding the haters. So, even though you may think queers are annoying, it does make a difference to speak out.
Ogre Magi
What more could you expect from a man who kills cats for fun
1EqualityUSA
Who kills cats for fun? Hickabee or the spawn of Don?
DCguy
I can see why Donald Trump is an anti-vaxxer. He needs some explanation for the way this guy turned out.