By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-18 16:04:32 | Updated at 2025-01-22 08:13:46
3 days ago
Trump is tapping members of the LGBT community for top spots in his administration — despite Dem hysteria
New York Post ^ | January 18, 2025 | Jon Levine
Posted on 01/18/2025 7:49:55 AM PST by Angelino97
President Trump is assembling an administration stocked with prominent gay and lesbian Americans — defying hysterical Democratic rhetoric.
“When it comes to whether you’re gay or straight, black or white and all those markers others calculate — President Trump is decision blind. He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,” said Bill White, a top Trump fundraiser tapped to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.
Among the picks:
* Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary. If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history.
* Ric Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s director of national intelligence during his first term.
* Tammy Bruce, 62, the new State Department spokesperson was a Fox News contributor.
* Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment.
* Bill White, 57, ambassador to Belgium.
* Art Fisher, 49, ambassador to Austria.
And at least 10 other prominent LGBT Americans are slated for major administration posts, one Trump insider said.
“The velvet mafia this time around will be extensive,” he said.
Gay and lesbian officials in Trump’s first term included Randy Berry, his ambassador to Nepal, and James Abbott, who Trump tapped to serve on the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
“I sit here knowing that President Trump chose me because he believes I am the best candidate, not because of my sexual preference,” Bessent said during his confirmation hearing...
A top gay New York City Democrat said he is pleased with the picks.
“It’s good and I hope that they will have a little influence when it comes to issues that come up having to do with equal rights and marriage and respecting trans people’s rights,” said the Dem.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globohomo; perversion; perverts; sodomites; sodomy
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1 posted on 01/18/2025 7:49:55 AM PST by Angelino97
To: Angelino97
And any MAGA person worth their salt had better be asking.....
“WHY?????”
2 posted on 01/18/2025 7:53:22 AM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)
To: Angelino97
Big tent. Republicans recognize there is no sense in inflaming fringe groups.
Rats on the other hand are seriously antagonistic and hostile against mainstream Americans.
3 posted on 01/18/2025 7:55:02 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Against anyone of any stripe if you don’t agree with them.
4 posted on 01/18/2025 7:57:09 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: Angelino97
Seems to be out of proportion to the general population.
Not that I’m into quotas, but I don’t believe the MAGA talent pool is so shallow as to be so lopsided to deviants.
5 posted on 01/18/2025 7:57:10 AM PST by Westbrook (.ts are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
To: hoagy62
Because they are the best person for the job based on MERIT. There sexual preferences are irrelevant, that’s “WHY”.
6 posted on 01/18/2025 7:57:59 AM PST by traderrob6
To: hoagy62
Hopefully he is picking them because they are good candidates.
7 posted on 01/18/2025 8:00:12 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
To: Angelino97
Bureaucrats are bureaucrats.
When the Persian Empire ran smoothly, it was thanks to Eunuchs filing the paperwork.
Not many of those around, although I would put Caitlyn Jenner in charge of sports immediately as it believes that men pretending to be women should not be allowed to compete against girls.
It and I share the same view on that issue.
8 posted on 01/18/2025 8:00:24 AM PST by Biblebelter
To: Angelino97
He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,
merit.
Throughout history, alcoholics, philanderers, thieves, drug users, illegal immigrants and even some perverts, and etc have gotten the job done.
The prime object now is MAGA. But secondary objectives are still there. You replace bad habits with another habit. Maybe MAGA will convert many, I think it will in many cases.
9 posted on 01/18/2025 8:02:14 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: Angelino97
Who cares as long as they are MAGA in all things!
10 posted on 01/18/2025 8:02:17 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: traderrob6
Because they are the best person for the job based on MERIT. There sexual preferences are irrelevant, that’s “WHY”.
Exactly! I’m a big fan of Tammy Bruce. The State Department press conferences will be quite entertaining.
11 posted on 01/18/2025 8:03:01 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
To: traderrob6
That’s also neutralizing some of the liberal claims that Trump is going to discriminate against gays , and pass a national abortion ban and all of that.
I heard somebody say the Trump wants to put gays in internment camps. Yes I know that is completely absurd. But some of this crap is being said on certain cable news channels and certain podcasts. Multiple real world examples that Trump is not discriminating against gays can only show how stupid some of those people are.
To: Westbrook
13 posted on 01/18/2025 8:03:19 AM PST by avital2
To: Angelino97
So hiring based upon qualifications, experience and results leads to a diverse group who we could care less about their life choices. But hiring based upon life choices only leads to incompetence. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
14 posted on 01/18/2025 8:03:45 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
To: Angelino97
I trust competence and loyalty are the reasons, and strongly doubt this signals a pro-gay administration, while it does silence anti-gay flak.
Tolerance.
15 posted on 01/18/2025 8:04:18 AM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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