Donald Trump hosted a super fancy dinner at the White House last night for America’s most prominent antigay crusaders, er, evangelical leaders.
Among the “who’s who” of homophobes were Tony Perkins, Franklin Graham, Michelle Bachmann, and many, many others.
Also in the crowd was Pastor Jim Garlow, who trolled around the room grabbing selfies with Donald and Melania, Mike and Karen “Mother” Pence, Kellyanne Conway, and alleged LGBTQ allies Jared and Ivanka.
Jarod & Ivanka @ tonite’s White House dinner. pic.twitter.com/PEhm4vOSsF
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
At White House Dinner tonite. Fabulous event. I was leaving the room. Did not even know the President was coming up beside me on my right. Was so shocked to see him. Got the best pic I could. pic.twitter.com/MceUWAvcp0
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
Of course, this is hardly the first time Ivanka has cozied up with a homophobe whilst simultaneously proclaiming to be a supporter of LGBTQ rights.
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Related: Ivanka Trump just gave $50,000 to an antigay megachurch because of course she did
Back in June, she gave $50,000 to Pastor Jack Graham of the Prestonwood Baptist Church, a megachurch in Texas, to help aide him with the immigration crisis happening at the country’s border at the time.
Hey, remember that time she tweeted this:
I am proud to support my LGBTQ friends and the LGBTQ Americans who have made immense contributions to our society and economy.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 2, 2017
Scroll down for more of Garlow’s selfies…
At incredible White House Dinner tonite. Elegant & brilliant First Lady Melania. pic.twitter.com/F9fsdunIHD
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
At White House Dinner tonite. Fabulous event. I was leaving the room. Did not even know the President was coming up beside me on my right. Was so shocked to see him. Got the best pic I could. pic.twitter.com/MceUWAvcp0
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence & Karen – a class act – at White House Faith Leaders Dinner. pic.twitter.com/AU1RHhcVvS
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
Kellyanne Conway – one super sharp woman! pic.twitter.com/8f0329Rfmy
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
Jarod & Ivanka @ tonite’s White House dinner. pic.twitter.com/PEhm4vOSsF
— Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018
Here’s Trump’s speech from the event…
Scout
Just more evidence that we do NOT want Trump impeached and convicted! The homophobic network is already in place for President Pence, a religious theocrat of the far right if there ever was one. We think GLBT rights are threatened now? Look out should the VP advance to the Presidency.
DCguy
As has already been pointed out, Manafort hand picked Pence and Manafort is compromised. If Trump goes down Pence will too.
Chrisk
Yeah, I’ll take a convicted lame duck President Trump till election day over impeachment.
DCguy
The reason Republican’s keep screaming “Liberal Bias!” To media is because they know that media will over react and cover Republicans incredibly softly.
Want proof?
Ivanka Trump’s business was DECIMATED by boycotts, finally just 2 or 3 days after Canada’s largest retailer became the next in a long line of retail giants to dump her brand media reports the following:
“Ivanka Trump is closing down her brand because she wants to spend more time on her position in Washington”.
No, if her brand wasn’t going under, she would have sold it, or left one of the executives in charge of it. But instead of reporting the very simple fact that, her brand had been boycotted, dumped my most of it’s retailers, wasn’t selling, and had just lost Canada’s largest retailer days before shutting down, media reported Ivanka’s P.R. release as fact.
Liberal bias my foot.
Kangol
No surprise that Trump is coddling and catering to these rabid homophobes and racists. But it isn’t just Trump, it’s the modern GOP. George W. Bush also catered to these hateful fanatics and pushed their agenda, as did Ronald Reagan. With this dinner Trump is billboarding his support for the all-out assault by religious fanatics against LGBTQ people; he and Pence approve harming gays, and if Brett Kavanaugh, a far-right Catholic jurist, gets on the Supreme Court, the last line of defense for anti-gay and anti-trans policies will be gone. Don’t forget that the GOP for the most part fought tooth and nail for DOMA and against same-sex marriage, against repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and against ENDA, which would provide employment protections for LGBTQ people. Trump is their leader and they’re his enabler. The question remains, why on earth do ANY self-respecting lesbian, gay, bi or trans people support these horrible politicians?
dwes09
1. They only are outwardly self respecting.
2. They are exceptionally gullible and believe that Republican lies regarding economic growth are correct (that employment figures and growth and debt figures supplied by the fed were all lies under Obama, but magically became accurate the day after Trump was elected).
3. They are lacking in critical thinking skills or intellectual acuity.
4. They feel they have vested economic interests that are protected by the right and this outweighs loss of social progress. (and here feeling outweighs actual research and understanding)
5. They want to cling to white privilege and distrust the demographic changes in the US as well as the growing embrace of multi-culturalism. At its strongest they are xenophobic or outright racist.
6. They come from evangelical backgrounds and their perceptions are still colored by that.
7. The holding of unpopular or actually unfounded political beliefs can feed into a desire to see oneself as superior to the majority.
Could be one of these or any combination of these. People have varying degrees of insight and connection to reality. But remember that significantly fewer LGBT people voted for Trump than usually vote for republican candidates (25% of LGBT people register and vote republican, 12-15% of LGBT folks voted for Trump…that gives one a little hope, they’re vocal but in reality are few).
Paco
Is this the same dinner that NBC news is reporting that Trump lied about overturning the Johnson amendment and also told these evangelicals that if the GOP loses in November that they will lose everything they have gained and it will be done through violence against them?
Coruna2018
Dwes09, you explained the reasons that Trump was elected. You did an excellent job of pointing out the factors that motivated such racist and reactionary behavior in the USA today! We are in the same boat as the Generation of 98 in Spain and the Fabian Socialists of early 20th Century UK: it’s awareness and pain that the US is no longer the dominant nation on Earth, economically, and the refusal of many Americans to accept that reality. In other words, the “party is over” for those who benefited from it and those who were raised to believe that they would be invited to that party. Therefore, the reaction is often to scapegoat others, to become isolationist, to find messianic leaders who promise a return to “the good old days”, aka “Make America Great Again” when the US was the economic and military superpower of the Earth but it is fear of losing power and the perception that, as long as one is white in the USA, one can gain power, maintain it, and use it to live in a material Garden of Eden. Dwes09, whether you were aware of it or not, your outlining the motives for unquestioning support by Trump’s followers also explain a serious and more talked-about issue in the American LGBT community: white privilege in dating and sex. The more one conforms to the standards of beauty espoused in the media, the more one is supposed to live in a sexual and romantic Garden of Eden, as well as in a material garden.
Thank you for your comments!
OzJosh
Ugh. The Trumps make the Borgias look like the Brady Bunch.
IWantAFullBeard
It’s probably a really sad experience to be Ivanka Trump and she knows it.
Bob LaBlah
I do not find her attractive at all. Thank god daddy had enough money to dress up her homeliness. His other daughter Tiffany aint no prize either.
Jimmy T
These people”hobnobbing” in the White House with the Trump Crime Family make me want to vomit.
batesmotel
Eh you can’t really fault her for that. You have to uphold a certain decorum at those events. You can’t go protesting and flailing about in dramatics because Michelle Bachman is in the room. Besides there are photos of Kathy Griffin chummy with Donald Trump long before he ran for President, and we know how she feels about him now. And there are photos of Oprah Winfrey in numerous photos with Harvey Weinstein.
DCguy
Very typical troll behavior. Trying to deflect and making a false comparison.
No, Ivanka posed with bigots, end of story.
bcborn
Feckless spinless C-word! So when are the churches going to start paying taxes since they’ve got their hands all over the government. I can’t have my cake and eat it why can they? Knock Knock… Hey BULLSHIT Religion… Get the f**k out of the government. So says the founding fathers.