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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 08:07 AM Aug 2016

Trump's Latest Merchandise: Rainbow LGBTQ T-Shirts, Buttons

LGBTQ for Trump? That's what the Republican presidential candidate is selling on his website ...

Donald Trump has been aggressively suggesting he's the better candidate for LGBT people.
After the horrific attack in Orlando that left 49 people dead and 53 others wounded at a gay nightclub June 12,
the Republican candidate said,
“Ask yourself, who is really the friend of women and the LGBT community.”

Trump doesn't support marriage equality. In fact, he's pledged to reverse it by selecting antigay Supreme Court justices, and several judges on his list of potential picks have a record of being anti-LGBT.
He also doesn't support transgender people having the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity because, he claims, it is "too expensive."

Whoever buys the shirt would also have to overlook that the man Trump picked for vice president, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, is one of the most anti-LGBT governors in the country.
Indiana passed and Pence signed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015 that cost Pence's state a record $60 million in revenue. The law gave businesses and individuals the right to refuse service to LGBT people ...

Read more at:
http://www.advocate.com/election/2016/8/26/trump-selling-lgbt-shirts

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Trump's Latest Merchandise: Rainbow LGBTQ T-Shirts, Buttons (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2016 #1
The t-shirts are only sold in men's sizes left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 #2
Naah. They wear *men's* t-shirts. Old Union Guy Aug 2016 #3
I'd bet we won't see him give a rally wearing this one (graphic warning) GoDawgs Aug 2016 #4

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Old Union Guy

(738 posts)
3. Naah. They wear *men's* t-shirts.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 10:07 AM
Aug 2016

They are lesbians, duh.






But seriously folks ...

Trump has always been gay friendly (as a businessman), it's merely that he's new best friends with our worst enemies.

Trust him now? I don't think so.

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