Eric Trump aka Tweedle Dumber Went On Fox To Talk About LGBTQ+ Support For His Father & It Got Confusing

 Elly Belle

Tue, September 29, 2020, 3:03 PM EDT

Eric Trump, the lesser-heard-from-but-still-problematic son of president Donald Trump, has been the subject of an unforeseen Twitterstorm involving his statements about the LGBTQ+ community.

In a new segment from Fox and Friends that aired Tuesday, host Ainsley Earhardt questioned Eric Trump about LGBTQ+ people supporting his father in the presidential election. Specifically, Trump was questioned about the potential “secret voters” or members of the LGBTQ+ community who have not admitted to supporting a Trump second term. Earhardt read the story of a gay woman who says she is supporting Trump’s 2020 campaign before asking his son, Eric, about that supporter base.

“There are a lot of people that might be voting for your dad that might be admitting it. So are you counting on this person? The ‘secret voter?'” she asked. In response, Eric Trump stated, “The LGBT community, they are incredible. And you should see how they come out in full force for my father every single day. I’m part of that community, and we love the man.”

But as soon as Eric Trump said the words “I’m part of that community,” speculations ran rampant online. The internet immediately exploded with queer folks questioning their reality, wondering if this was the strange way that Eric Trump had chosen to address his own sexuality. But in reality, it’s more likely that Trump was seemingly (albeit poorly) just quoting a supporter saying “I’m part of that community” to drive his point. And this felt like more of a relief than anything for many other LGBTQ+ people online who tweeted in response that they don’t want to “claim” him anyway.

But, of course, Eric Trump has made himself an easy target, and there’s been no shortage of jokes that the internet has made about him in recent years (though, unfortunately, not in a himbo way). The internet similarly had a field day when he spoke at a rally in October and gave a bizarrely-timed Christmas shout-out, almost two months before Thanksgiving, saying he was taking the “war on Christmas” head on. “Very important update: the war on Christmas has begun before Halloween this year,” one writer tweeted in response then.

More recently in May, the middle Trump child also claimed that the coronavirus would “magically all of a sudden go away and disappear” and the country could reopen. At this point, it seems he’s just living in a completely different reality. What kind of VR goggles does he have on, we wonder?

Though, one might say that Eric Trump is simply carrying on the family tradition of speaking before knowing what you’re talking about. Earlier this year, the internet similarly responded to Ivanka clearly not understanding a Matrix reference and tweeting about being “red pilled.”

With election fever ramping up, here’s hoping that Eric continues his streak of saying things without thinking, if anything as a reprieve, though perhaps less aimed at a community that absolutely does not want to claim him.

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Body camera footage shows Trump's former campaign manager and wife beater Brad Parscale being tackled by police outside his Florida home

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Mon, September 28, 2020, 4:30 PM EDT

• The Fort Lauderdale police department released body camera footage showing former Trump campaign manager, Brad Parscale, being tackled and arrested outside his home on Sunday evening.

• His wife, Candice Parscale, told the police that Brad loaded a firearm and threatened to hurt himself.

• The video shows Parscale being tackled by officers after he eventually emerged from his home, shirtless and holding a beer.

• Responding officers, who observed bruises on Candice's face and body, seized 10 firearms from the couple's home, according to a police report obtained by Business Insider.

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Fort Lauderdale police on Monday released body camera footage showing President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, being tackled and arrested outside his home on Sunday.

His wife, Candice Parscale, called the police on Sunday, saying her husband had loaded a firearm and threatened to hurt himself, according to a police report obtained by Business Insider.

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After a prolonged standoff, Brad was taken into custody and hospitalized under Florida's Baker Act, which allows individuals to be involuntarily hospitalized if they're believed to pose a threat to themselves or others.

The three-minute video shows Candice standing outside the couple's house in a bathing suit and wrapped in a towel, telling Officer Timothy Skaggs that she fled the house in fear and later heard what sounded like a gunshot come from inside the home.

"He's acting crazy, so I went outside to the backyard and let him just chill out," she said in the video. "And he was just going irate. And he came out of his office, cocked a gun, went back and I was like, 'OK, this is f---ed up,' and so I went to the front yard."

Skaggs spoke with Brad on the phone, urging him to "come outside with no weapons," according to the body cam video. Brad initially refused to do so.

Later in the video, Brad, who is about 6-foot-8, came out of his house, shirtless and carrying a beer. He approached another officer who he's reportedly friendly with and said, "Listen, I'm not trying to kill myself. She's lying. I'm your friend."

Shortly after, several other officers approached Brad, repeatedly telling him to "get on the ground." When he made no immediate moves to do so, two officers tackled him with what the police report described as a "double leg take down."

Brad repeatedly said, "I didn't do anything," as the officers rolled him onto his stomach, handcuffed him, and helped him back to his feet.

Candice told officers that her husband had post-traumatic stress disorder and had been violent and threatened to harm himself in recent weeks, per the police report.

Law enforcement seized 10 firearms — two shotguns, a .22 caliber revolver, five handguns, and two rifles — from the Parscale residence, according to the report.

Police also reported that Candice had several bruises on her face and body, which she said were the result of her husband assaulting her days before. She did not report that assault at the time.

"While speaking with Candace Parscale [sic] I noticed several large sized contusions on both of her arms, her cheek and forehead," Detective Steven Smith wrote in a report on the incident. "When I asked how she received the bruising, Candace Parscale stated Brad Parscale hits her."

Police reported that Brad smelled of alcohol. He is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Broward Health Medical Center and has not been charged with any crimes.

Brad was removed from his position as Trump's reelection campaign manager in July, reportedly over campaign spending concerns, and was replaced by then-deputy campaign manager Bill Stepien. He's stayed on the team as an advisor.

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Closet Homo #MoscowMitch McConnell ‘refusing to debate his election rival if there is a female moderator’

 Madeline Roth

Tue, September 29, 2020, 2:57 PM EDT

Mitch McConnell's challenger in the US Senate race has accused him of refusing to participate in debates moderated by women. (AFP via Getty Images)

US Sen. Mitch McConnell and his challenger in the Kentucky Senate race, Amy McGrath, are sparring over upcoming debates.

It all started when Mr McConnell sent a press release from "Team Mitch" accusing his opponent of potentially backing out of a debate in October. But according to subsequent claims from Ms McGrath's campaign, the real issue is the senator’s refusal to participate in an event with a female moderator.

In a press release issued Monday, Ms McGrath's campaign alleged that "Amy is ready and willing to debate Mitch, but Mitch is afraid to take the stage unless he dictates every detail."

The release continues, "Sen. Mitch McConnell has not participated in a debate in Kentucky where the candidates took questions from a female moderator in nearly 25 years, and he continues to resist allowing women to host debates."

The campaign promised that Ms McGrath would participate in upcoming debates only when "the gender balance of the moderators is restored."

Trevor Noah Drops Scathing Bombshell On Why Melania Can’t Dump Trump

 Ed Mazza

·Overnight Editor, HuffPost

Tue, September 29, 2020, 5:35 AM EDT

It all makes sense now.

Trevor Noah said the explosive New York Times report detailing President Donald Trump’s massive $421 million in debt ― most of which is coming due over the next four years ― was the “Rosetta stone” that explains everything else.

“Trump doesn’t actually want to be president. He just really needs that Secret Service protection,” “The Daily Show” host said. “Shit, if I had $400 million in loans coming due, I’d also be trying to cancel the election.”

And the debt explains why first lady Melania Trump hasn’t left the president.

“If she divorces him, she gets half of the $400 million in debt,” Noah cracked.

Noah also noted that Trump was rooting for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to win the Democratic presidential nomination instead of Joe Biden.

“He wanted [Sanders] to win so that the government would bail him out,” Noah said, adding: “It even explains why Trump has been destroying the post office. Good luck collecting your money when you can’t mail him a bill.”

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Dr. Fauci Calls Out Fox News For Misleading Reports About Coronavirus

 Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday singled out Fox News for what he called its sometimes “outlandish” reporting on COVID-19 at a time when the public needs vital facts about the pandemic.

The nation’s top infectious disease expert was interviewed by CNN’s Brian Stelter. In highlights from the conversation aired on “The Situation Room,” Fauci spoke of misinformation in the media and also discussed concerns relating to President Donald Trump’s controversial new coronavirus task force adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas.

“The bad guy is the virus. The bad guy is not the person on the other side of your opinion,” Fauci said.

“There is so much misinformation during this very divisive time that we’re in, and the public really needs to know the facts,” he added. “Some of the media that I deal with really kind of, I wouldn’t say distort things, but certainly give opposing perspectives on what seems to be a pretty obvious fact.”

“If you listen to Fox News, with all due respect to the fact that they do have some good reporters, some of the things that they report there are outlandish, to be honest with you.”

Fauci also expressed unease when asked if he believes Atlas is providing inaccurate information to the president. Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases, has shared information about the virus that has been rebuked by scores of experts in the medical community.

“I’m concerned that sometimes things are said that are really taken either out of context or are actually incorrect,” Fauci said.

He said most members of the White House coronavirus task force were working together, however, referenced Atlas as an “outlier.”

“My difference is with Dr. Atlas. I’m always willing to sit down and talk with him and see if we could resolve those differences,” he said.

Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also expressed concerns about Atlas sharing falsehoods during a phone call overheard by an NBC News reporter. “Everything he says is false,” Redfield said. He later confirmed that he was speaking about Atlas.

Atlas has taken on a leading role in the task force since joining in August. He has made regular appearances on Fox News and embraced a number of outlying views throughout the pandemic, including questioning the use of masks and embracing the controversial “herd immunity” strategy.

His former colleagues at Stanford medical school, where he was a professor, published an open letter warning that “many of his opinions and statements run counter to established science” and undermine public health authorities. He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution.

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Trump's Twitter Censors Removed Honest Tweet About Melania Divorcing Trump Calling It Hateful Conduct

Fact time. If you know anything about Twitter and Trump you know that he's allowed to break rules with immunity. Rule don't apply to Trump. Mr Objective was replying to a thread theorizing if and when Trump's third whore Melania wife was going to dump him. As usual the slime at Twitter didn't specify what about Mr Objective's tweet violated their rules regarding the purposefully vague concept hateful conduct.

It is not hateful to speculate that perhaps the reason Melania a known whore is staying with Trump because she's sticking around for the will.

It is not hateful to speculate that Melania has STDs. Trump is a known whore fucker so the odds that he gave Melania an STD or she gave him one are high.

It is a fact that whores are sellouts. 

It is a fact that French whores in WW-2 betrayed their country.

It also a fact that whores often marry for money and it is also a fact rich losers like Trump marry whores because no decent woman would marry Trump. If Trump wants sex with decent women he rapes them.

Fact: Trump is a whore fucker and Melania is a whore. The odds of a whore fucker and a whore having a venereal disease are high.

As you can see by the rules no rules were violated but Trump probably has Twitter mods on the payroll or he and Putin have dirt on people are Twitter. Maybe it's both?

 Violating our rules against hateful conduct.

You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.

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  MrObjective
  @MrObjective5

  @chris6192001 @NancyLeeGrahn She may be in his will and waiting for him to die. We know she's ho. No decent woman would be with Trump. A whore would sell out her country. It happened in France during WW-2. Also, she probably has a lot of STDs.

  7:08 PM - 27 Sep 2020

Some Good News On COVID-19

From now on, most of the deaths will be Trump lie spreading and disease spreading MAGAts. Let his lies and ineptitude kill more MAGAts. Encourage them to go without masks to church, bars and Trump rallies.

United States Cases 7,099,967 Deaths 206,592

India Cases 5,901,571 Deaths 93,4104,846,168

US Pop 328.24 million The US is 4% of the world's population.

India Pop 1.37 billion India is 17% of the world's population.

Some may think Trump has his MAGAts conned the way Hitler conned the Germans. Those people are wrong but even if they are right, it doesn't make his MAGAts any less dangerous and only slightly less deserving of death. Do you honestly think the Nazis were confused or delusional when they were gassing the Jews and bulldozing their bodies into mass graves?

Lt. Aldo Raine]

My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... killin' Nazis. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die. Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?

Modified for Patriots For Dealing With MAGAts

My name is American Patriot and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me soldiers. Patriotic-American soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about a Civil War happening soon. Well, staring it a little earlier. We're gonna drop into MAGAt, social media sites disguised as MAGAts. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... trolling  Nazis. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell am not dumb enought to think it's possible to teach the MAGAts lessons in humanity. MAGAts ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a truth-hating, mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every every son of a bitch we find wearin' a MAGA uniform, they're gonna die from high blood pressure. Now, I'm the direct descendant of the founding fathers. That means I got a lot of patriotism in me. And our battle plan will be that of a Minuteman  resistance. We will be cruel to the MAGAts, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the MAGAt won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the MAGAt will be sickened by us, and the MAGAt will talk about us, and the MAGAt will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us doxxing them they are tortured with. Sound good?

This is an opportunity to turn the MAGAts' lies and back onto them with devastating effect. You've tried to reason with them and you know how that worked out. It's an exercise in futility. The debate is over. You know what they are and you know they have no redeeming value. Whether or not they are mindful or mindless, MAGAts need to be gone and COVID is one way of exterminating perhaps a million of them. Others will die premature deaths from their smoking and gluttony. Don't try to stop these lemmings from walking off a cliff. Point them to more cliffs and onto jagged rocks. We are a war and the are the enemy. Subterfuge is a tried and true tactic and you can employ it. Stop bitching and start fighting.