Eric Trump — gay or just verbally inept?
While claiming a large number of LGBTQ people support his father’s re-election campaign, Eric Trump — the third child and second son of Donald Trump Jr. and the ULTIMATE middle child — this week suggested that he his gay himself. And a large chunk of the LGBTQ community quickly responded with a heart “No, thank you.”
This morning (Tuesday, Sept. 29) on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhard asked Eric Trump about “secret voters” who were planning to vote for his father but “might not be admitting it.” Eric Trump responded, “Ainsley that person’s there, I’m telling you I see it every day. The LGBT community, they are incredible. You should see how they come out for my father, every single day. I’m part of that community and we love the man. Thank you for protecting our neighborhood, thank you for protecting our cities.”
Taken at face value, his response is clear: Eric Trump said he is a member of the LGBTQ community.
But given that Eric Trump is as two-faced as the rest of his family, you can’t take anything he says at face value. And the fact that he has been married since 2014 to Lara Trump, with whom he has two children, added to the fact that no one has ever before suggested he might be gay equals yet another poorly-worded statement by a Trump rather than a coming out moment. Eric was probably just “quoting” some anonymous, Trump-loving gay person rather than speaking for himself.
Either way, several folks definitely in the LGBTQ community took to social media pretty quickly to make their feelings known about the possibility that Eric Trump was, indeed, coming out. Journalist Erica Lenti wrote on Twitter, “We, the gay committee, have had an emergency meeting, and we have rejected Eric Trump’s application.” Bobby Lewis of Media Matters wrote, “Eric Trump coming out is not the birthday gift this homosexual wanted.” And gay former Utah state Sen. Jim Debakis questioned whether it might be “some kind of weird new aversion therapy.”
But actor and writer Michael Cyril Creighton probably came closest to the truth with his tweet on the subject: “I don’t think Eric Trump came out as gay. I think he came out as someone who doesn’t know how to structure a sentence.”
— Tammye Nash
Now, we know why Saturday Night Live portrays Eric Trump as moronic in its skits about the Trump clan.
There is also something called Bi in the LGBTQ community. Which means you like both guys and girls, so when he says he is part of it that doesnt mean he is Gay. Just means he is part of the community. Which if you did some research on this shit, you would know this but alas you are stupid.
Oh Alex, you really should be careful about who you call names. Your comment proves that are the one who hasn’t done your research
Has the Trump administration done anything that has negatively impacted the gay community? Is is possible that his adult children have friends, and possibly family members that are gay, hence Eric’s support of the gay community? I do not not know. Either do you. The gay community is the most heavily divided group of people around the globe. We love to hate on each other and Republican’s. Stop the internal hate and come together 100% of the time, not just when there is a presidential election. As a community we want to be taken seriously, yet we cannot take each other seriously. Get real.
Yes. In fact the Trump administration has done MANY things to negatively impact the LGBTQ community.
The fact that William Johnson even asked this question (in a publication that regularly documents the negative actions of this administration) destroys all credibility in the remainder of his comments. He has made it highly unlikely that we can take him seriously. We don’t love to hate on Republicans–we do it out of self-preservation. And, by the way, Eric does have at least one family member who is gay: his cousin, Mary, who, you know, just wrote a book about how awful her Uncle Donald is for all Americans, as well as for everyone in our community.