A woefully misinformed person on Reddit has declared that Donald Trump gave him the courage to come out as gay. Uh huh.
“The support that Donald showed for the LGBT community in Folorado today was heartwarming. It shows the man truly loves everyone in this fine country regardless of who they may be,” writes user Conservative_Horse. “Donald Trump just doesn’t espouse courage, he is courage, and he gave me the courage to come to terms with the fact that I need to win in my personal life.”
Setting aside “Folorado,” this is a weird non sequitur claim. Errrr, what exactly about a trust-fund baby says “courage” to you? Is it that he just says whatever pops into his head without thinking it through? Because that is also a trait shared by the victims of brain trauma.
But at any rate the entire post is probably made-up. The user has no other details about being gay, as people tend to provide when coming out. He just says he’ll bring his boyfriend home for Thanksgiving.
How about we take this to the next level?
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And the rest of his posting history is Trump memes, so we’re probably looking at someone who thought it would be cool to make up a story about how gay people are inspired by Trump. Bleh. Nope. We have plenty of people to inspire us from within our own community, thank you very much — there’s no need to be inspired by a man surrounded by those who want to destroy us.
ErikO
People come out for all sort of reasons.
Mo Bro
Hey Queerty-
Bi guy here who gladly cops to being inspired by Trump.
Did I make it up?
Do I suffer brain trauma?
Am I deplorable?
Nope, nope, and fuck nope.
More evidence that gay liberals don’t give a shit about their fellow lgb’s unless they subscribe to the same ideology. Which isn’t just sad, it’s pathological.
Stefano
Barack Obama is a muslim. Americans have never been on the moon. The sun rotates around the earth. Ghosts exist. Men and Dinosaurs lived at the same time on earth. The Evolution of Charles Darwin is an invention. Oils spills are caused by ecologists. Aliens exist and are visiting the earth frequently.
Mouhahahahahahahaha
ChrisK
@Mo Bro: Nope. It’s called reality. Try it sometime. That or just keep ignoring facts that other commenters keep throwing at you.
geoker
Why are you guys constantly scouring Reddit for drivel?
joeyty
And what’s with the photo of the half-drag Trump ? Is Queerty equating being a gay male as dressing as a female ?
Mo Bro
@joeyty:
Of course they are.
Where’ve you been, Joe?
Bauhaus
“Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next next president?” I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”
– Donald Trump
AtticusBennett
Liar pretends to Come Out via an anonymous screen name.
similar lying wimps rush to defend him via their own anonymous screen names on message boards.
can “Mo Bro” show himself? instagram handle? webpage? blog? youtube channel? no. because he, like the fake “Trump inspired me!” poster are nothing but lying cowards.
does Mo Bro wanna show us all what a strong trump-supporting man he is by showing himself? no. because internet trolls are incapable of doing that. they need anonymity, because that’s the only way they can keep lying.
Heywood Jablowme
@joeyty: Yes, why bother with imaginary drag Trump when we have real-life drag Giuliani?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvP_HZVqmY
+ “Saturday Night Live” Season 23 Episode 7 (1997) – NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani hosts this famous episode. It wouldn’t be the last time Giuliani dressed in drag.
joeyty
@Mo Bro: So…not only does Queerty equate homosexuality with dressing up like a female (like housewife matrons in the 1940’s in Des Moines probably thought of homosexuality), but then they say it’s a bad thing, too ? Is this site supposed to be encouraging to young gay dudes or…the opposite ??
joeyty
@Heywood Jablowme: But Giuliani is heterosexual.
joeyty
@Heywood Jablowme: Unless you’re going to say that his gay buds, (the ones he lived with during the 9-11 crisis), had an effect on him……so, any straight men hanging with gays too much might wind up dressing like women.
Mo Bro
@joeyty:
I dunno. I’m as confused as you.
The whole thing seems to be based in transvestism.
Still trying to figure it out myself.
Rimminit
I know of several evangelical Christians who aren’t going to impressed with this news. As a matter of they are voting for trump, despite his lascivious life style, because of his promise to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court so marriage equality will be reversed!
dwes09
@Mo Bro: “Bi guy here who gladly cops to being inspired by Trump”
Thus demonstrating that you cannot tell the difference between reality and wishful thinking.
If you are not simply a white alt-right straight boy here to troll (as i suspect), what exactly is inspiring about Trump. Please use his actual words and actions not contradicted by other words and actions. Please DO NOT use beliefs or wishful thinking or vague notions of “speaking his mind” (mentally ill people on the street do that, and often sound surprisingly like Trump), as opinion based on opinion rather than fact is worthless and foolish.
Just one point to consider. Trump has expressed support for the republican party platform which still touts marriage as only between a man and a woman, supports the right of “people of faith” to deny service to LGBT people in public places of business and supports the thoroughly discredited reparative therapy (“pray away the gay”). When asked he specifically referred to it as both “fine” and “good”. If you are, in fact, gay (and just as so many redditors dissemble, i am not convinced you represent your origins and identity correctly) you are in for a rude surprise if your man gets elected.
dwes09
@Mo Bro: ” I’m as confused as you.”
You guys are so confused in so many ways!
Heywood Jablowme
@joeyty: Oh, personally I think dressing in drag is one of the few admirable things about Rudy. He doesn’t seem to have done it lately though, maybe he should go back to doing that.
Kieran
Now Trump is a “Trust fund baby”? The guy is anything but. He went out and built a multi-billion dollar real estate empire. Try to make an effort not to sound like a total ignoramus.
Heywood Jablowme
@Kieran: Mark Cuban says that if Trump had taken the money he inherited from his father and simply put it into low-risk stocks and bonds, he’d have much more money than he has now.
Cuban thinks the $10 billion figure is “trumped”-up and totally fictional, is more like $165 million.
dwes09
@Kieran: “He went out and built a multi-billion dollar real estate empire.”
Not entirely clear that he actually has a multi-billion dollar empire, but even if he does it should be pretty obvious that the skills required to head a democratic republic are not the same ones needed to head a real estate development business, especially given his use of undocumented workers, illegal Chinese steel, foreign produced clothing for his failed clothing line, and so on.
There is nothing really to recommend him other than the fact that he appeals to the lowest common denominator among (overwhelmingly) white people through the repetition of lies and the use of an adolescent speaking style. Other than North Korea and Russia, the rest of the world is terrified that we might actually elect an idiot to the presidency. Notice how the world markets fell today on news that the race is tightening. His support among gay people is LESS than it was for the Bushes and Reagan and many other republican down ticket candidates. That tells you something (if you don’t have your eyes and ears covered).
joeyty
@Heywood Jablowme: ( shrugs )
joeyty
@dwes09: Then, dwes, you explain what the half-drag Trump face is supposed to mean. Is it a compliment or an insult or mocking heterosexuals or homosexuals or Protestants from NYC or…?
dwes09
@joeyty: Queerty is currently not allowing me to post more than very short posts.
dwes09
It is from a video done by an artist 14 months ago. Has been used many times subsequently.
dwes09
A comment on Trump’s duplicitous nature. And relates to his anti-gay nature (given his vocal support of the republican party’s anti-gay platform).
dwes09
The same artist did one of Kanye West, who though liberal politically is similarly pompous and phony as Trump.
dwes09
But trump in drag as an insult to him is pretty obvious given his nature. Make up is phony and theater, he is phony and theatrical in an adolescent way (people refer to him as having the speaking style of a 12 year old).
dwes09
There are some equally interesting images to be seen by googling Obama drag queen or Bill Clinton drag queen.
Alistair Wiseman
Hillary Clinton and her inner circle are facing 5 active FBI investigations and Queerty comes up with this fluff?
Try checking out the 100 most damaging Wikileaks gems instead…
http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
joeyty
@dwes09: “Make up is phony and theater, he is phony and theatrical in an adolescent way” Well…that DOES describe drag queens. Also the part about duplicitous natures.
joeyty
@Alistair Wiseman: Thanks for that. Number 27 is especially interesting. I KNEW something was up when she wouldn’t even SAY “radical Islam” during the debates. She’s more beholden to Huma and Saudi Arabia than to gay Americans.
Louis
So tired of people in this community acting like Hillary is the only one with skeletons in her closet and Trump is a saint who never does or says anything wrong.
God what perpetually deluded individuals self righteous ones to boot.
Id rather support a candidate who actually DOES support our rights as AMERICANS then to ever support a man and a party that has always been actively trying to take our rights away and make our lives more and more dangerous simply by being ourselves and loving the same sex.
Mo Bro
@dwes09:
No, our confusion lies in the fact that our fellow lgb’s insist on utilizing drag queens as representatives of who we are, something that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
joeyty
@Louis: “So tired of people in this community acting like Hillary is the only one with skeletons in her closet and Trump is a saint who never does or says anything wrong.” Don’t know where you live but I don’t know a single person in the “community” who thinks Trump is a saint.
Alistair Wiseman
@Louis:
You are a good victim, Louis. Keep voting Democratic.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
You are a quisling. Keep voting Republican.
GayEGO
Hey! You can say anything you want! That is what Trump does!