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riversedge

(69,724 posts)
Fri May 31, 2019, 09:21 PM May 2019

Trump's Pride Month tweets generate anger, hurt, and outrage among LGBTQ community, activists, and s

Source: raw story





Trump’s Pride Month tweets generate anger, hurt, and outrage among LGBTQ community, activists, and supporters

Published 2 hours ago on May 31, 2019

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

President Donald Trump’s self-promotional and self-congratulatory tweets recognizing – for his first time ever – LGBT Pride month are eliciting anger, hurt, and outrage from members of the LGBT community, activists, and supporters.

“As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation,” Trump’s tweets began.

Many are furious.
The head of HRC called it “gross hypocrisy.”...............................


Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/trumps-pride-month-tweets-generate-anger-hurt-and-outrage-among-lgbtq-community-activists-and-supporters/



The article reminds us that Trump has not tweeted out this special day in previous years.















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Trump's Pride Month tweets generate anger, hurt, and outrage among LGBTQ community, activists, and s (Original Post) riversedge May 2019 OP
Shallow, sad and hypocritical. Tertullian May 2019 #1
Trump has outdone himself in brazen hypocrisy. Eugene May 2019 #2
View profile As the saying goes, "Watch what Trump does, not what he says." Yes. yes. yes. riversedge Jun 2019 #5
He didn't write that moose65 Jun 2019 #3
Well, I wonder what staffer wrote that. MineralMan Jun 2019 #4
Did Pence approve of this? SCVDem Jun 2019 #6
It's really a veiled threat... JaxMan Jun 2019 #7
be thankful you aren't being executed and stop being greedy by demanding more JI7 Jun 2019 #8

Eugene

(61,595 posts)
2. Trump has outdone himself in brazen hypocrisy.
Fri May 31, 2019, 09:27 PM
May 2019

As the saying goes, "Watch what Trump does, not what he says."

riversedge

(69,724 posts)
5. View profile As the saying goes, "Watch what Trump does, not what he says." Yes. yes. yes.
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 12:24 PM
Jun 2019

View profile
As the saying goes, "Watch what Trump does, not what he says."

moose65

(3,164 posts)
3. He didn't write that
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 10:03 AM
Jun 2019

That tweet is too coherent and has too many big words to have come from him. Every now and then one of his staffers obviously tweets for him, and it's blatantly obvious when that happens.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
4. Well, I wonder what staffer wrote that.
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 10:09 AM
Jun 2019

Clearly it is not a product of Trump's brain, which does not function that well with regard to language.

However, it is certainly hypocritical, which is in keeping with Trump's personal beliefs.

JaxMan

(11 posts)
7. It's really a veiled threat...
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 03:02 PM
Jun 2019

saying "see, we could be doing these things to you, aren't we nice?"

F@ck you...

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