In case you’d been wondering: If Gus Kenworthy is ever invited to the White House while Trump is in office, he won’t be attending.
The openly gay freestyle skier is expected to head to South Korea in 2018 for the Winter Olympics, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be popping ’round the White House afterwards.
Team USA athletes are traditionally invited to the White House and congratulated by the president after the Olympics are over.
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“I have no interest in faking support,” he tells Time. “I don’t want to go shake his hand.”
The reason? He wants to push back after Trump attempted to ban transgender people from military service.
“That is just a direct attack on the LGBT community,” he says. “It shows more courage to leave the house as a trans person than Trump has ever had to show.”
This will be the first Winter Olympics Kenworthy will participate in as an openly gay man.
He came out in an interview with ESPN in October 2015.
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ChrisK
Is there anyone that wants their pic taken with cheeto outside of the tea bag type?
Brody
Poor, poor Donald . . . he’ll no doubt be heartbroken that he’ll never get the opportunity to shake the sticky hand of such a self-important, vain, smug prog who’s so spectacularly in love with himself.
BCbreeze
PREACH!!!
Juanjo
Oh look, one of the resident trumpanzee trolls is butt hurt.
argleflarglebargle
No, if Trump wants to shake the sticky hand of a self-important, vain, smug prog who’s so spectacularly in love with himself then he can still shake his own hand to get that experience
Brody
argleflarglebargle –
Trump’s a prog?
Um, no. No, he is not.
Spectacular backfire.
Try again, please.
mhoffman953
So let me get this straight. He won’t go to the White House because President Trump wanted to ban transgenders from the military but he’ll compete in the X Games which doesn’t allow transgenders to compete.
Brody
That’s right . . . ’cause Gus be woke.
Not only that, mhoff, but for the crime of using the heteronormative / homophobic / cisgender word “straight,” you’ll now need to publicly recant, attend sensitivity training, resign your job, and, after completing your apology tour, eventually die from shame and embarrassment.
Sorry, but them’s the rules.
drelocks15
SNAP.
Rex Huskey
oh God…. y’all are asking for the wrath of the sistesr of perpetual indulgence….. particularly the amen chorus members who frequent here…. DCGurl (sorry about the STD) and ChrissyK (please please brush your teeth).
Xzamilloh
Gus really is a great athlete… too bad it’s in a sport that doesn’t matter 🙁
Prax07
He’s definitely more reserved than me. If I ever had the misfortune of meeting the big orange ass I’d spit on him, or worse.
hankejh
I wish these hate-filled queen comments were more entertaining #sad
drelocks15
Nah. They’re pretty entertaining. It’s just YOU.
#Trust me.