Tiffany Trump criticized for speech claiming president as pro LGBTQ+

In an effort to help her father’s campaign, Tiffany Trump took center stage at a Trump Pride event at Tampa, Florida to talk about how Trump wanted to support the LGBTQ+ community in the future.

“I know what my father believes in,” she said. “Prior to politics, he supported gays, lesbians, the LGBQIA+ community.”

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The speech was well-received by those who attended the event, with Tiffany receiving applause for her speech. However, the reception was markedly different on social media. After the event, Tiffany was hit with a wave of criticism from the LGBTQ+ community and allies over the speech, with many claiming the speech and even the event itself was done in bad taste due to how Trump has treated the community during his presidency.

“Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people already experience greater barriers to accessing health care than non-LGBTQ people,” the Planned Parenthood website states “Yet, the Trump-Pence administration has repeatedly — and is continually — trying to take away LGBTQ people’s rights. Examples include: trying to strip transgender people of their recognized identities and civil rights protections, putting barriers in the way of LGBTQ people’s access to health care, and nominating judges and officials with strong anti-LGBTQ records.”

While Trump is vocal about many of his political stances, many equally loud complaints regarding his legislation on the LGBT+ community seems to have fallen on deaf ears. One of his more infamous decisions was the decision to ban trans people from the military, a topic many Twitter users are bringing back up.

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump stated. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”

The Tweet created a lot of controversy with many seeing it as Trump’s admittance to supporting homophobic ideologies. Since then, even more of the largest pro LGBTQ+ voices also became anti-Trump, with many sending Tweets of condemnation to the respective Twitters of the Trump family. Now the speech in Tampa has shifted a lot of the focus on Tiffany.

“I am part of the LGBTQ. I am a gay man,” one Twitter user stated. “Donald Trump does NOT represent me, and neither does: Tiffany Trump. Donald has attacked my community in the military and through executive orders attacking the ACA. Donald will NEVER speak for me, not NOW or EVER!”

“I remember for a long time people assumed that Tiffany Trump was the smart one because she kept her distance from Trump and never talked,” another Twitter user said. “Then she opened her mouth…..”

Similar sentiments have been expressed across Twitter, Tiffany even trending on Twitter at one point. However, there has been a counterattack from some Trump supporters claiming the Hunter-Biden story should have gotten more attention. The Hunter-Biden story originated from an article from the New York Post, stating that Biden’s son, Hunter, had allegedly been in contact with someone from Burisma and arranged a meeting between the person and his father. The article receives widespread acclaim from Trump supporters despite the article being ‘censored’ from several different media platforms. In fact this ‘censorship’ seems to have confirmed the controversy for many supporters.

“Amazing how Hunter Biden’s name has never trended as high as Tiffany Trump’s,” a Twitter user said. “She went to law school while he was kicked out of the Navy for being a crackhead and through nepotism, not hard work, mired his dad’s campaign in scandal via Burisma.”

“I will vote for @JoeBiden this year, on one condition…  he promises to get me the same $83,000 per month job he got for his son. #HunterBiden,” another Twitter user said.

https://twitter.com/JeffHayden/status/1317597253377400835

However, there seems to be plenty of doubt from the left as to the validity of the Hunter Biden story with the tag #EvenFoxNews trending on Twitter. This is due to a rumor that Fox News decided to pass on reporting on the Hunter Biden story over validity concerns. Fox News is well known for being one of the most right-leaning news programs in America, so the idea that not even Fox News would report on a story that could damage Biden galvanized leftist skeptics.

“When a pro-Trump story is so sketchy that it won’t even meet Fox News standards, that’s really saying something,” a Twitter user said.

In any case, the Pride speech has cemented yet another controversy for the Trump family during the president’s tumultuous administration.

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