Tony Green is a gay Republican from Dallas who spent months calling the coronavirus pandemic a “scamdemic” and making fun of people who wore masks. Then he and his entire family got coronavirus, some had to be hospitalized, and one died.
Now, in an essay for The Dallas Voice, 43-year-old Green admits that he was wrong.
“I admit I voted for Donald Trump in 2016,” he writes. “I admit traveling deep into the conspiracy trap over COVID-19. All the defiant behavior of Trump’s more radical and rowdy cult followers, I participated in it. I was a hard-ass that stood up for my ‘God-given rights.'”
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On June 13, Green and his partner threw a big party for their family, during which nobody wore masks or practiced social distancing.
The next day, Green woke up sick.
The day after that, Green’s partner was sick.
Then Green’s partner’s family started getting sick. First it was his elderly grandmother. Then it was his dad, his mom, his brother-in-law, and his sister, who had just given birth.
Pretty soon all 14 people who attended the party were sick, each testing positive for coronavirus.
But the nightmare was only just beginning.
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“My father-in-law and I both went to the hospital on June 24,” Green writes. “The virus had attacked my central nervous system, and the staff stopped me from having a stroke.”
His partner’s elderly grandmother was admitted to the hospital on June 25. By July 2, she was dead.
He continues, “On the day of her funeral, which was July 14, five more of our family members tested positive for the virus. That evening, my father-in-law was put on a ventilator.”
During the ordeal, Green created a GoFundMe page to raise money for his family, but he was forced to end the campaign after his mother-in-law, who he originally duped into thinking coronavirus was hoax, said she wouldn’t accept any help from him.
“It is with heavy heart and deep regret but I must inform each contributor that I am compelled to end this fundraiser and refund each donor,” he wrote on the page, adding his mother-in-law “refuses to accept this money.”
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Green says he has been eaten alive by guilt ever since.
“You cannot imagine my guilt at having been a denier, carelessly shuffling through this pandemic, making fun of those wearing masks and social distancing,” he writes. “You cannot imagine my guilt at knowing that my actions convinced both our families it was safe when it wasn’t.”
He concludes his essay with a plea to others who still aren’t taking coronavirus seriously.
“For those who deny the virus exists or who downplay its severity, let me assure you: The coronavirus is very real and extremely contagious,” he says.
“Trust me, you do not want this virus. And you do not want your loved ones suffering and dying from this because you are taking a ‘political stand’ or protecting the economy over their lives.”
“I am calling myself out first,” Green adds, “but now this is personal, and I fell on my sword. And I promise you, if we continue being more worried about the disruption to our lives than we are about stopping this virus, not one American will be spared.”
Watch Green’s appearance on Inside Edition below.
Mister P
Now he needs to admit that voting for Donald Trump was also a mistake.
Those damn Dallas queens.
Mr C
Aren’t they messy! ?
Manray
The price of stupid, the Trump virus was only a symptom. Snots and Prayers!
D P
LOL, Manray, that’s too funny: snots and priors. Whoops. That was a typo, but I’ll keep it in the reply. And thank you Manray, I needed that.
Joshooeerr
Err… given how many voted for and still support Trump, it’s not only possible it’s commonplace.
ingyaom
I didn’t think stupidity this extreme was possible.
FRE0
It IS possible, and it is very common. It is because such stupidity is so common that the epidemic has not already been brought under control.
Tamaracboy
I keep shouting to the wind that we need a legal limit to stupidity !
WSnyder
He’s wrong to believe this video is his penance. It should be the START of it. He has much more to do to make up for his actions, ignorance and stupidity. His Grand-mother-in-law is gone, and it sounds like most family members suffered more than just simply having been diagnosed with it. No, this video should only be where he begins, not where he ends this story.
D P
WSnyder, I agree. Green replied to the question about his feelings, “hurt, pain, hopelessness, and praying” but not any mention of GUILT. Tells me of a failure to accept responsibility.
ChrisGMN
I have no pity for this guy, OR for the thinking adults he “convinced.”
Tamaracboy
“Thinking” should be in quotes.
Cam
He is a gay Trump supporter. His whole life is built around supporting other people being harmed, and in catering to bigots and proving he’s one of the “Good gays”.
Of COURSE he didn’t care about anything until it happened to him. No Republicans care about anything unless it effects them directly.
mlo88
?%. I have NO sympathy for someone who ignores common sense and science?? You rep what you sew
Kangol2
The selfishness and ignorance of what he did does call for more than this penitential video. I mean, someone died because of his idiocy, but the man he supported, Don the Con, has created the conditions in which 150K Americans are dead from Covid-19 and we now have 1/4th of all the Covid-19 cases on earth! On top of which, Don the Con’s administration is homophobic and transphobic, in addition to being horribly racist, treasonous, incompetent, and sheerly incompetent. That racist Bleach Bum is destroying this country day by day!
Onecaddy13
@Cam, you are a deplorable jackass. Why do you always insist in your comments in putting everybody in the same box. (No Republican cares until it affects them) you don’t speak for me, and clearly you will never know what I’m thinking. But I’ll tell you what I’m thinking now. You are a very hateful person probably with few or no friends. And your comments say it all. When I first started on this site, I stated that I was Republican since I was able to vote & that I did not support Trump. Yet your comments then reflected that I was, I think you call it a right wing troll & clutching pearls. (Your two favorite & constant sayings) this will be the last time I respond to you as I do not have tolerance for stupidity. Can you honestly state that you have no Republicans in your family or your small circle of friends? Stop speaking for all Republicans, I think what this idiot did is beyond stupidity and he could play the blame game on everyone else but himself. He is an adult man, that makes adult decisions. He can do all the apology videos and apology tours he wants, but that won’t stop the selfishness he did and it won bring grandma back in which he need to live with forever. This also won’t excuse everybody who attended this party & their selfishness knowing there was a pandemic, used no masks and broke the city’s social distancing guidelines. This is tragic for this family, instead of bashing the Republicans with another “Gotcha” have some sympathy for once. Stop the hate, not all Republicans are bad.
AxelDC
As long as he feels bad, I guess that’s all that matters.
Too bad he couldn’t have imagined the damage his idiocy would have caused before it happened.
FRE0
Feeling bad or guilty will accomplish nothing. Instead he should be working hard to make others aware that covid-19 is real, dangerous, and easily transmitted. He could do that by volunteering to be on radio and TV programs so share his experience with others.
Instead of condemning him, posters should offer positive steps he could take so that fewer people would make the same mistake. Simply condemning other people accomplishes nothing!
RPerez
Imagining what could happen would require empathy. Not something that he or many of his ilk are capable of. He should feel guilty. He was responsible
tjack47
I hate it for him. His family is just as culpable. I live in Texas, and I don’t understand LGBT+ Republicans at all. It’s still their right, but I don’t mind speaking my mind about what they’ve done to our community. I wouldn’t wish any illness on anyone, but I can tell you, almost no one is wearing masks in the Texas Panhandle.
trojanboy
Darwin called it natural selection.
D P
trojanboy, WHERE IS THE THUMBS-UP BUTTON FOR YOUR COMMENT?! I agree with you.
Bengali
Typical Trump supporter. Acting like assholes until they’re impacted then suddenly, they feel remorse. He gets to live with giving his guests/friends/family members a disease that will have effects on them for the rest of their lives. Long term, patients of covid have residual symptoms that impact all of their major organs, primarily heart and lungs. They’re denial gives them the rewards they deserve. He gets to live with the guilt and shame of infecting those close to him and his partner. One death, likely more to come. No sympathy for this trash.
FRE0
Bengali, EXACTLY what do you expect to accomplish by condemning him? Do you really think that that will improve the quality of life for anyone? Do you actually think that it will undo the harm he has caused? Does it make you feel better to condemn someone?
Why don’t you offer him positive suggestions for ways he can use his experience to prevent others from making the same mistake?
SFMike
Stupid enough to be a Republican so it makes sense he’s stupid enough to infect his family. Bet he’s still a self hating “conservative” at heart who still thinks his god gave him his “rights” and not the people who fought and died to give him the rights he has like gay marriage. Lie down with pigs and you get covered with COVID-19.
nunya
Did he force them to go to his party? Did he forbid anyone to wear a mask? If the answers to these questions are no. Then those who got sick have only themselves to blame, with the exception of minors who may have no say in whether they were there or not.
Anywho, this story smells of last week’s fish.
Cam
Translation: The troll account first tries to say that people aren’t responsible for their actions, he threw the party.
Then they try to claim the story is false, because being corona virus conspiracy peddlers are all the right wing trolls have left.
nunya
The fact remains no one forced them to go. People are responsible for their actions. How does he know he gave them COVID? Any one or more of the guests could have spread it. By June there was ample enough info out there for people to have made their own decision whether or not to go. Spin the wheel and takes your chances.
Blue Zoo
@NUNYA – It’s not about whether HE was the one who spread it to the family, it’s about the fact that HE created the environment for the virus to spread by throwing the party AND telling the guests they had nothing to worry about because the pandemic wasn’t real. The family probably trusted him because they thought as an elected official he had access to more accurate information than they did. And in the end, this why it’s important to elect leaders who refuse to undermine the perception of truth by introducing information into the debate from underinformed sources like cable news hosts, conspiracy theorists, or their daughter.
@dusyk
Don’t feel sorry for this idiot, only for his family members!
marcbruer777
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Well … Ain’t thot a shame.
SPEEDOSWIMMER
I have exceeded my quota for feeling sorry for Covidiots and Maskholes a long time ago.
There is indeed a Sky Fairy Gawd, successfully thinning the herd….. the ones born with the STUPID MORONIC genes.
DARWINISM!!!
justyouandi
This has nothing to do with Trump! Maybe just one reader of this will get it.
I won’t be checking back in for responses.
Cam
“I won’t be checking in”
LOL!!!!! Suuuuuuure, you won’t.
SteveM
If you’re a Trump supporter, then drop dead.
TxCudlr
Then u give us full reign to talk about u, since “U” start some shit like this, dump it, & LEAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY?????????????????????? So, OBVIOUSLY, u r yet ANOTHER dumb, stupid, ignorant, uneducated, empty headed, pathetic, brainless self hater; & sad for u……..a trump worshiper.
mailliw110
Your first paragraph was funny. Your second paragraph is a lie.
Prowelsh56
” You cannot imagine my guilt at having been a denier, carelessly shuffling through this pandemic, making fun of those wearing masks and social distancing,” he writes. “You cannot imagine my guilt at knowing that my actions convinced both our families it was safe when it wasn’t.”
He is correct – I cannot imagine because I never would have been so stupid to disbelieve the science. HE lost the family member through his own ignorance. I can feel bad for the loss of anyone during the pandemic but not for this survivor who selfishly is the reason why his Loved one passed. This guys needs to be right, against the odds, gets little pity from me.
FRE0
Obviously the family members were equally as stupid since they did not believe the science either. Why don’t you offer positive suggestions for how he can use his experience to get more people to face facts?
Kangol2
@FRE0, since you don’t want this man to be criticized, I’ll take up your offer.
Green can record a series of videos renouncing his support for Don the Con and his homophobic, treasonous, racist, murderous administration. He can also ask viewers for forgiveness. Finally, he can urge other LGBTQ Republicans and conservatives to vote against this horribly dangerous, fascist President, who is calling for the election to be delayed, who lies like most people breathe, who is the most corrupt person ever to befoul the Oval Office, and who refuses to stand up to Russia!
How’s that?
FRE0
More people like him should get on television and warn others with their stories. Their testimony might be powerful enough to awaken other deniers.
As for feeling guilty, the others in the party participated of their own free will. Surely they must share the responsibility for what happened to them.
Rock Star
Just remember Trump said he loved the uneducated. Of course he does, those that suffer from little education are the easiest to dupe. tRUMP has done this all his life. His father Fred was a great teacher. November 3rd can’t come soon enough. Then he must be closely monitored until January 20th because he will strike out when given a chance. It’s not over yet folks.
PS
I didn’t hear him say one word about switching parties or at least not being a “repuglican” anymore.
TxCudlr
U mean a “repugnantcan”!!
Tamaracboy
The correct technical term is : “RepugniKKKan”
D P
And to Graham Gremore, thank you for the video embedding for this article. If not for anything else, I loved watching it to come across Steven Fabian reporting on the topic. He’s a babe!
MynameisSid
Good, he should feel bad. And guilty. I guess that “it’ll just disappear” ridiculousness was a hoax?
Cam
He’s like the guy who had 4 drunk driving arrests who SUDDENLY feels bad after he kills sombody.
sterlinggg
Perfectly explained.
bluewater103
Just one word for this idiot….KARMA
amanwithanedge
sometimes I don’t think they should waste hospital beds on the deniers who infect others.
SteveM
Bang on!
TxCudlr
TOTALLY AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “THEY” r the real ones that will drive either the hospitals or this country BANKRUPT, or both……….due to their own lack of intelligence.
Norm
I can hear him at the funeral of a few that died. Oh, I just feel awful about it! Idiot!
ElPillo
I believe in redemption, but it must be true and accompanied by action—actively work against the promoters of falsehoods and in support of anything that will end it. In other words, change parties and become involved.
osote_tex
He was not only the catalyst for his partner’s ENTIRE family to become infected and some hospitalized in this outing, but his partner’s elderly grandmother passed away due to his continued insistence that this was a “scamdemic” that he kept promoting to the family. This is why it’s affecting the POC community so much, is because of a lack of education being one of the biggest reasons, which is self-evident from the photo posted in the article.
Why is his partner still with him after causing so much grief and despair, including the death of his grandmother?
TxCudlr
I was thinking the exact same thing!!!! Hopefully, his partner has already left him, unless the partner is as stupid, ignorant, dumb, & uneducated & agreed to all this BS as well.
nmharleyrider
I counted nine I’s in his message and that’s what it is all about: the me.me entitled white Republicans. And now he can indulge in this huge pity party which changes nothing. Dumb is dumb.
SteveM
It’s incredible that so many gay men voted for Trump in 2016. Were / are they that stupid? Trump doesn’t care about them and evangelicals like Pence downright hates gay men and lesbians. Well, this idiot gets no sympathy from me at all.
Lightbulb
I am so tired of these Dumputin aka LiarInChief aka The Orange One aka Dumbputin followers saying its fake. Just like the GOPers and EvanEVILS who hate gays until their kid comes screaming heals first out of the Closet and now they understand ONLY AFTER they have done everything in their power to denounce gays and sign legislation against gays and gay marriage…kapeesh?
Remember when if you had HIV and gave it to someone you could be charged with a felony …well the same should be true for all these stupid morons…period!
TxCudlr
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PhillyProud
Actions have consequences. Shrug. Thoughts and prayers. The only human worse than a trumpanzee is a gay one.
justmeh
Living in the DFW area, stupidity abounds, even in the LGBTQ community. I have seen so many members being absolutely stupid, throwing house parties, pool parties, etc. No social distancing, no masks, nothing. Mostly all these younger generations who didn’t live through the AIDS epidemic. Just disgusting and sadly, I hope this POS GOP idiot never stops thinking about having killed family members because of his stupidity. But, stupidity is all over Texas sadly…
TxCudlr
Ur right about the people n Dallas. “THEY” think that they r better than everyone else. They r TO snobby, & look down on everyone else that doesn’t fit “THEIR” kind; ESP. the gays!!!!!!
sillyme
Well for some it will take getting it to make it hit home and make them believers but if they don’t want to wear a mask let them do so and start a contact tracing on them that day if not sooner and notify each person that jerk comes into contact with that he/she may have co-vid and for them to get tested and if survives that then place a suit against them for your medical costs and keep going from there on the road to get better. The only right you really have is to live pay taxes work and then pass away or die and then do so and shut the Hell up.
barryaksarben
Just another self hating queen too stupid to look in the mirror until forced to. You need to continue to stand and look in that mirror and figure out why you would fall for such ignorant shit like the kind trump is pushing
cuteguy
He deserves everything bad that happened to him and his fellow morons. And on that note, since him and his fellow morons decided to believe Faux News channel, they shouldn’t have gotten help from the hospital. The hospital should be only for those who took this pandemic seriously but still got sick. Not for these MAGA morons
TxCudlr
As nice as that would be, even “U” know that THAT cannot b done!!!!! Unfortunately, hospitals cannot neglect people for their political persuasion!!
blackhook
Another dumber-than-dirt Trumpanzee…Sad!
David Feinberg
Seems I can still be the first commenter to acknowledge that it took courage for him to go public in admitting he was wrong by voting for Trump and being among “Trump’s more radical and rowdy cult followers.”
Now that he is wracked with guilt, will he channel it to help win Texas for Joe Biden? That would be true repentance.
ncimato
He did no such thing. He admitted he was wrong to deny Covid-19. He did not renounce Trump anywhere in the article.
Toofie
It’s typical. Covid isn’t real until it affects them directly. Everyone else’s suffering doesn’t matter.
nm4047
so I stuffed up now I set up a go fund me page, glad he was true to his conservative convictions on be financially responsible for themselves. Loved to know who many actually contributed.
ncimato
Bless His Heart?
TxCudlr
I have no sympathy for him nor his ignorance. He TOTALLY gets what he deserves!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANYONE that thinks that this is funny, to believe that ALL of this was made up, & then, THEN to make fun & mock people for wearing masks to keep from getting sick while this IGNORANT, STUPID, DUMB, UNEDUCATED AZZWIPE to go around & blatantly lie to others, & ESP. to close family members of 2 different families ONLY to infect them & for 1 to die. I hope the guilt u have TOTALLY eats u up for the rest of ur life. Again……..NO sympathy to u; u get what u deserve!!!!!!!!!
mikejua90
Agree!!!
edensasp
He should be prosecuted, criminal negligent attempted murder, with an enhancement of depraved indifference! No different shooting a gun into a crowd You can not fix stupid, but you criminalize them and sue them till their kingdom ejacs….
GJ
It’s your’s and your partner’s fault for being morons and endangering the lives of your family members by throwing the party. You absolutely deserve every bit of your guilt. All of you though are collectively responsible for catching COVID because you attended the party and did not wear masks. No one was forced to go. It’s interesting, no sad, how long you were able to stay in your mindless bubble until people in your own family started falling sick and dying. It didn’t matter that it was happening to others in every city across America. You and your President are truly pathetic and without empathy! All of you who attended this party need to help educate those who are still caught in that same very thick bubble. Try the truth and caring for others rather than all this false concern over the loss of your imagined rights in a pandemic. Use that militant energy in your bubble and look for ways to help others suffering from COVID.
jaimedance3
Any Gay That Voted For That Asshole Period Should All Get Their Gay Cards Revoked Permanently, Considering That Orange Fat F**K Is A Racist Homophobic Prick! And For All That The LGBT Community Fought So Hard For To Only Have That Orange F**K Continue To Try & Take Away Everything & All The Hard Work That Was Done!!
yup5hioop
These people need to go to their base or their Republican friends and present themselves. We can finger wag all we like but it’s pointless. I keep my finger on the conspiracy crowd and they won’t get it until their own people tell them it’s real. Like Trump dragging out that nutty doctor they only double down unless their own shakes them out of it.
EdAllan
OK. He murdered essentially his entire family and he’s sorry about that. Well, isn’t that SPEcial!!?
At this point, the LEAST he can do is offer to make commercials for the Texas Democratic Party presenting his story and calling on everyone to vote for Joe Biden, M.J. Hegar (running against John Cornyn), and every other Democrat running against the Party of Jefferson Davis, Vladimir Putin, and Death.
JohnnyBoy2
This guy finally has an Epiphany when the epidemic affects himself.
It really doesn’t explain his rank stupidity several weeks ago. I’d like to hear him explain how on earth he was so stupid, so arrogant, so sure of himself then, but now, all is clear.
hotdogla
Wowzers. Imagine infecting those you love; one good thing about being alone, is not having to worry about inadvertantly infecting
ThomMc1965
Thanksgiving is going to be so weird for him this year…
frankcar1965
The only bad thing is, it’s the old people in the family that it will kill, it needs to get the young ones before they breed and pass on their faulty genetic material.
dre23222
Girl bye!! I’m so tired of these cult followers of that man not believing this is real or taking wearing a mask seriously. Then when they get it, these videos of them coming out asking for forgiveness or praying and asking for support. No one forgives or support you. You bash everyone and kept thinking it was hoax and when it hits home you crying now. Go jump somewhere. Ask the Guy in the White House who you praise so much to help. Oh I forgot he’s no where to be found.
Samuel1966
I’m not sympathetic at all for what happened to him or anyone in his family ,you know why?? They were all a bunch of idiots that listened to their political party more than the science itself! Lesson learned!
Cleetus
wow.. firstly, how can any gay person be a republican?? that ASTONISHES me. Mother Nature at work.. Natural selection. Thin the herd.. call it whatever you want.. It’s what happens when you’re dumb AF and choose to believe a known liar over scientists.
The fact that nobody at the party was wearing masks tells me they’re all dumb AF too. Hope the ones who survive wise up and see the light.
moose_keating
He should be in prison for reckless endangerment among other things.
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jack512
Tony Green is a gay Republican. No need to say more. That alone tells me he’s a total fool.
trojanboy
Yeah. He looks pretty stupid. Pity natural selection didn’t select him. It still could.
Sethwey Flowingfire
This COVID-19 situation reminds me of the 1980’s when the HIV/AIDS epidemic first started its devastating rampage.
The president at the time, Ronald Reagan (a republican), did not even publicly address the disease until 1986. I found the following quote from the New York Times addressing the escalating AIDS crisis by then NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wikipedia from January 14 of 1986:
“…one million Americans have already been infected with the virus and that this number will jump to at least 2 million or 3 million within 5 to 10 years…”
Inconceivably it still took until October 22 of 1986 for Reagan to ask the surgeon general, Dr. C. Everett Coop at the time, for a report on AIDS.
My comment is how surprised can we be with the response to COVID-19 by Trump’s republican administration as well as his administration’s attitude toward COVID-19?
I am neither a democrat nor a republican, but I sincerely believe that republicans have a lot of unnecessary blood on their hands. The irony that this time the nonchalant attitude toward COVID-19 backfired and affected the deniers.
How incredibly careless & wasteful that so many of our leaders learned nothing from the pain & heartache of the AID’s crisis – not to mention the lessons that should have been learned from the so-called Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918!
History is doomed to repeat itself.
We should not forget that once the republican party got into bed in the 1980’s with the so-called religious right a great deal of stress and anguish was heaped onto the LGBTQ+ community at a time when support and compassion would have been a more appropriate and humane attitude towards the LGBTQ+ community as HIV/AIDs caused so much death and devastation within our community.
Even though I am not a democrat nor a republican, I firmly believe that our community cannot afford to trust the republican party and we owe it to ourselves to be ever vigilant with staying informed with the republican party’s activities that may impact the LGBTQ+ community.