He’s got to be kidding.
Perpetually out of touch conservative talking head Rush Limbaugh believes the nude photos of Melania Trump that graced the cover of the New York Post recently might “wrap up” the LGBTQ vote for Donald Trump.
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The photo shoot features the potential first lady cuddling up with a similarly disrobed woman and dates back to the mid-nineties when Trump was a model going by the name Melania K.
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“These are, what would you call, girl-on-girl, I think is the – yes, nude girl-on-girl photos with Melania and other women. I think this probably might wrap up the LGBT vote for Trump. You never know how these things are seen, you never know,” Limbaugh said.
Apparently he thinks the LGBTQ community will be more swayed by someone playing gay for the course of an afternoon than by a rabidly anti-LGBTQ platform, a candidate who has promised to overturn the same-sex marriage decision and a vice presidential candidate that makes Trump look pro-gay by comparison.
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“And the single white male vote, particularly the some or no college educated white male vote,” he added.
That may be closer to the truth, although it is safe to say that that is the one group Trump already has nailed down.
“I mean isn’t this the type of stuff that makes people big stars today, on Twitter, and Facebook, TMZ? I mean, this is just the Kardashians, in a sense of subject type stuff. I mean, it’s relatable,” Limbaugh continued.
The New York Post describes the photos by saying:
The raciest of the photos shows Melania lying nude in a bed as Scandinavian model Emma Eriksson, also naked, embraces her from behind, just below her breasts, which are fully exposed.
In another photo, Eriksson wears sheer stockings, a low-cut bustier, high heels and a long robe — all designed by John Galliano — and raises a whip as if preparing to spank Melania, who pretends to recoil. Melania is more conservatively dressed in a skin-tight gown and high heels.
“I always loved women together, because I have been with a lot of women who desired the ménage à trois,” said Jarl Ale de Basseville, the French fashion photographer who snapped the pictures.
Trump adviser Jason Miller said the photos are “nothing to be embarassed about.”
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Can you imagine he and his counterparts having this reaction if Michelle Obama had posed nude prior to her husband running for president? Likely they would have been singing a different, “what kind of role model is this?” tune.
Kangol
I personally have no problem with Melania Trump’s nude photos. More power to her. She was a young model and sometimes they take these kinds of pictures. She’s not the issue, her crazy husband and his even more insane supporters are. My question is what will his fanatic evangelic supporters, who want to deny LGBTQ our rights, ban porn, take away women’s reproductive rights, and more, say about these nude, lesbian pictures? I’m sure they’re already studying them closely, very closely.
Masc Pride
Nice. So a potential First Lady has a softcore porn (*cough* sex trafficking *cough*) past? Very prestigious!
DCguy
@Masc Pride: I wouldn’t be surprised if you nailed the facts there 100%
Pete
Are they going to put a pole in the White House?
dwes09
Just one more in a series of questionable aspects of both Trumps. Add to that the plagiarism and lies about it as well as the recent lie about her college experience (on the Trump website she claimed to have a degree from a European university, turns out she went for one year and then dropped out to pursue her modeling career.
In itself nude modeling is no big deal. Taken all together, her actions (and his as well) reveal a total lack of class. To recycle a nickname used by the right for no discernible reason: we don’t want Moolania in the white house!
Alistair Wiseman
@Pete:
Neither Clinton, nor Trump, are of Polish ancestry. 🙂
Mack
One I don’t think that Trump will get the LGBT votes because Melania is a slut. He’ll the the Log Cabin Republicans votes because they’re still desperate to be noticed. There is a reason for his Evangelical Committee that he’s appointed to help him and it’s not to support the LGBT community, not with Michelle Bachmann on it.
Alistair Wiseman
@Mack:
Are the 23%-27% of gays and lesbians that voted for the Republican candidate in the last three presidential elections “still desperate to be noticed” even though almost none of them are a part of Log Cabin Republicans?
Brian
Melania appears to be one of these sleazy women who did girl-girl soft-porn for a men’s magazine. This is fake lesbianism for perverts.
These sorts of women are generally not pro-glbt. Most of them could not care less about glbt rights. Rush Limbaugh is stupid if he thinks Melania’s fake lesbianism will win votes for Trump.
jimontp
@Alistair Wiseman: Where exactly did you get that 23-27% of gay voters? And they voted for which Republican candidate? Rich gays and lesbians who vote their pocket book over equal rights for all LGBTQ Americans are loathsome, just like Log Cabin Republicans have been forever. When Trump picked Pence for VP, trying desperately to appeal to Evangelicals, he picked one of the LEADING anti-gay rights politician in the country. Limbaugh can’t be as clueless as to recognize the soft-core porn of Mrs Trump were not aimed to LGBTQ, but to straight horny old men like Trump. And guess what she got one- psychotic, incoherent, physically repellant. She sold her body to the devil.
Alistair Wiseman
@jimontp:
It is called exit polling. Look it up.
By the way, exit pollsters do not only poll “rich gays and lesbians” and Log Cabin Republicans.
Step out of your insular, left-wing bubble.
Dave Downunder
The White House staff must be going crazy trying to figure out how they are going to deal with Trump and Melania if the unthinkable happens and he wins the presidency. As if having to deal with Trump won’t be enough of an insult for dignitaries but entertaining leaders from conservative countries with your soft core porn wife is going to be interesting protocol. How will leaders from other nations have any respect for either of them and how will White House staff try to smooth the path and negotiate around it?
Stilinski26
Isn’t this bullying and harassment?
captainburrito
If evangelicals supported Trump over Cruz despite the latter being bred to be their ideal candidate, i dun think they will give a sh1t about this.
Alistair Wiseman
@Stilinski26:
No, not when it is conservatives. It is justified.
Guy068
@Kangol: His fanatic evangelical supporters have been told she has since repented and is now right with the Lord…
DCguy
@Alistair Wiseman:
Oh that’s right, somebody can’t back up his post so says “look it up”.
Hey Ally, how about commenting on the GOP anti-porn plank and explain why this is ok?
GayEGO
Oh, another sarcastic comment from Russ Limbaugh. He must be in the Trump spotlight!
Masc Pride
@DCguy: Still waiting on you to provide proof of all this Trump support that is supposedly in my every post. What’s the hold up?