Former-professional-dog-walker-turned-Gays-For-Trump-ringleader Scott Presler was presented with the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, at CPAC last weekend.
The award is presented to people “who have made monumental and lasting contributions to the cause of freedom worldwide.” Past recipients of the award include antigay pastor Billy Graham and Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Oh, and Bob Hope!
Presler, who called the deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol earlier this year the “largest civil rights protest in American history” and who worked with the anti-Muslim hate group “ACT for America” from 2017-2018, took to Twitter to gloat about his award on Saturday.
“Just received the Ronald Reagan Award at @CPAC,” the 34-year-old tweeted. “This is the coolest gosh darn moment of my life. None of this would have been possible without you. Mom & dad are here at my table and I couldn’t be a more proud son.”
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Just received the Ronald Reagan Award at @CPAC.
This is the coolest gosh darn moment of my life.
None of this would have been possible without you.
Mom & dad are here at my table and I couldn’t be a more proud son.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) February 28, 2021
The irony that Presler, an openly gay man, was given an award named after a guy who ignored the cries of LGBTQ activists begging for help during the AIDS epidemic by a group that continues to actively work against equality is so thick it’s almost palpable.
Here’s how folx responded to Presler’s tweet…
I’m sure Reagan would have loved the idea of a homosexual man receive an award with his name on it.
— 💀DeathMetalViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) February 28, 2021
I never liked Reagan. I can tell you this much though, he would have despised you and everything you do.
— Drjrat (@Drjrat1) February 28, 2021
I’m going to guess they only give these out to the best Nazis, so congrats! Your mom and dad must be so proud! pic.twitter.com/gQcmIZUb2n
— Susan Mariner (@Susan_Mariner) February 28, 2021
he’s involved with anti-Muslim hate groups, that should tell you all you need to know
— n o n c o n n a h ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ (@NonconnahDrone) February 28, 2021
My parents would never be proud of any of us becoming Nazis.
— Marieisback (@MariesMission3x) February 28, 2021
🙄 Ronald Reagan would not appreciate this award…
— 2021 pilots 💙 (@2021pilot) February 28, 2021
It’s like getting a Blockbuster Video Award. It will soon be obsolete
— Regis Filius- SSG (Ret.) (@regisfillius) February 28, 2021
Ronald Reagan would not be standing on a nazi stage
— emmylux (@emmylux1) February 28, 2021
Does he know that they are anti-gay?
— Educational L (@EducationalChat) February 28, 2021
the seditionist award
— 🚀SPAC3KITT3N🚀 (@5P4C3K1773N) February 28, 2021
These folks commenting on your post have no clue who Reagan was. Reagan and the AIDS epidemic should maybe give them a clue. Reagan is most likely rolling in his grave that this Scott Presley guy won an award in his name. 🤦♀️
— Donalea Loewen (@phreddiegirl12) February 28, 2021
Yeah a award at a white supremacy conference isn’t really something to be proud of.
— Ronn Head (@rbhead12) February 28, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
iminheatlikeacat
Is he an actual Nazi? I’ve never heard of him.
Mister P
He isn’t being honored. They just want to single him out as another person with low intelligence supporting low intelligence candidates.
Cam
Any time “Gays for Trump” is mentioned, it should be added in that even though they CLAIM they have huge numbers of members, both times they tried to have events less than 20 people showed up.
barryaksarben
Gays for trump are a bigger fraud than the million moms with even less members. As a truly proud gay man who lost many loved ones during that pig Reagans administration complete fail of an AIDS response I will just come out and say this weird little queen should hang her head in shame. So his parents are fine with him being a nazi? Probably easier that then gay to them. LIttle twit.
Chrisk
First Limpball getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom and now this. Any award from these types is worthless shit.
All so mommy and daddy might tolerate you a bit more.
ShiningSex
He’s gross!!!
It’s like being black and in the KKK. Makes NO SENSE!!! Self loathing idiots
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I hate to bring rain to the picnic but has it occurred to the gay press that you are cutting our throats by reporting on shit like him? Ok, he got a medal. And thanks to the gay press now the world knows about his being awarded a metal named after a president who’s policies no longer fit in neither the world of today nor the very party that got him elected, the GOP. Hasn’t anyone taken note of how Reagan’s name was practically NEVER mentioned during the Bush and Trump years? Now do you see how irrelevant this guy, his views and his importance are? This story is twisted clickbait that should have been rethought before the author hit the post article option. As a commentator reported no more than twenty people show up at their rally’s so why encourage curiosity from the lost amongst us to attend?
barryaksarben
I mostly agree but we need to all be reminded that we have traitors amoung us and we need to know who they are. We dont need to be blindsided by these people if we dont know who they are
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Barry, my guess is his family has money and he was told to either step up to the podium because Trump needed gay support or he gets cut off and he’ll find out the hard way how gay men and women who must get up and work eight hours a day as a restaurant or drug/grocery/pharmacy store clerk have it. The thought of those jobs no doubt frightened Goldylocks into accepting this lie (that he truly believes in Trump). I doubt even Christopher Walker (Herschel Walker’s irritating “daughter”) would have accept such a position not knowing he was being used for nothing else but political/sexuality reasons. They pose no threat because they themselves know they dont matter. Seriously, do you or anyone else feel a threat from the Log Cabin gay group? I sure as hell don’t and wouldn’t even bother throwing rotten tomatoes at them while in a drunken stupor during Pride Week. These people do not deserve a platform in gay media and need to be grateful for their youtube audiences which I’ll bet the majority of views attributed to their videos happened because people accidentally clicked on them. Please do not accidentally make these people relevant.
Mr. Stadnick
So you think censorship is okay?
Cam
@Mr. Stadnick
New screename alert for the same old right wing troll.
RyanMBecker
That photo had me thinking it was Caitlin Jenner, another deluded LGBT Republican.
dhmonarch89
After they set up the golden statue of Trump at CPAC, I thought it was a sin to worship any other Repub God but him…. he hasn’t banished Reagan yet?
Leash
she don love herself
justgeo
Kinda like the child of cousin “IT” and Freddy Munster!
KarenB
I would bet the farm that all of these comments are from the tolerant, inclusive left Trump haters. These comments show the true agenda behind these snowflake leftists. But no one attacks them for their hate speech toward a gay man because he just happens to love his country. Such hypocrisy is rampant with the left who are more Nazi in their behavior than anyone on the right.