Ivanka Trump Celebrates And Honors The LGBT Community And Twitter Is Just Totally Not Having It

[tenderfoot]

One year ago today President Obama issued his final LGBT Pride Month proclamation, a tradition Donald Trump, as well as all other federal agencies, evidently chose to discontinue.

Tonight, however, Ivanka issued a pair of tweets in which she declares that she is “proud to celebrate and honor the LGBTQ community” and support her “LGBTQ friends and the LGBTQ Americans who have made immense contributions to our society and economy.”

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more: http://www.joemygod.com/2017/06/01/ivanka-trump-celebrates-honors-lgbt-community-twitter-just-totally-not/

[Blue_Roses]

1. Oh, come on...

She's trying. She didn't ask to be born into this jerk's life. I look at Michelle Obama and how she was so welcoming of Melania and see an example.

[yardwork]

2. Bull. Shit. She's raking in millions being employed by her daddy.

[tenderfoot]

3. Go eat some Champagne popsicles

Link to tweet

[JI7]

4. she is with him in the white house and attends all the meetings and other shit. she isn't just a

daughter who is living her own life somewhere else.

she is supporting him .

[FlightRN]

5. Please don't

even put Michelle's name in the same paragraph with these corrupt, horrible excuses of humanity.

[Blue_Roses]

8. I can understand that

and definitely see your point. But, there is no comparison. Michelle Obama is such a class act who strives to make things better--which is what she did with Melania.I respect that.

[Tanuki]

16. Welcome to DU, FlightRN!

[lunasun]

29. Thank you

[luvMIdog]

6. She isn't a child , she's an adult with children of her own that hires underpaid Chinese workers to

make her shoes. She's an adult that has been in the White House supporting and enabling the very same administration that is doing every thing they can to strip the LGBT of human rights. She has an office in the White House. She doesn't get a free pass. She has made multiple trips to Russia on behalf of who? She doesn't get a free pass.
I'm sorry just because Michelle Obama was cordial to Melania during the transition ( which is protocol) does not mean that no one should call Ivanka on her glaring hypocrisy now. That's my opinion.
I also did not ask to be born into my father's life, but were he destroying this country and all it stands for I would fight him every step of the way (father or not) and I would oppose him publicly. I would not aide him in every way humanly possible and kiss his ring .

[Barack_America]

17. Preach.nt

[Solly Mack]

7. She voted for him. She defends him. She works for him.

Her primary purpose in this whole Trump debacle is to put a pretty face on her father's bullshit.

Her father or not, you don't support/defend/work for a person like Trump and get to distance yourself from the stink.

[Cha]

9. Exactly. ivanka's a Gaslighter just like the

rest of them.. worse.

And, she's a dumbshit, too.

[Solly Mack]

38. Exactly. She's the heir..the real heir... of all of her father's ways.

[BlueStater]

10. She's part of his administration.

She's taking a job she is in no way qualified for and has no business accepting. She's enabling her loathsome scumbag father.

Fuck her.

[JTFrog]

13. Get real.

She is 100% complicit and enabling that mother fucker. Trying my ass. Tiffany and Barron are the only two I have any compassion for. The rest are just as dirty and greedy as daddy. Fuck them.

[NYC Liberal]

14. She chooses to be not only a part of his life (she's a grown woman),

but she also chooses to defend him and be a part of his administration.

She isn't 12. She made choices, and those included continuing her relationship with her father.

[dalton99a]

22. +1

[Tanuki]

15. She is a monstrous hypocrite and everything she posts on Twitter is aimed at

enhancing the marketability of her "brand." That's why she recently increased the visibility of her kids on her social media platforms... her marketing team decided that it would make her more "relatable." Now it seems they've decided that it's in her interest to appear gay-friendly. Michelle stood by her duty to play a role in the "peaceful transfer of power," and she did so with dignity and grace. Ivanka Antoinette is exploiting her ill-gotten connections to promote her brands internationally and obtain an economic advantage, and doesn't give a fuck whom her father and co-president Bannon destroy along the way.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. She is Ms. Plastic Fantastic, playing both sides for herself, even more so than Sheryl Sandberg.

[ck4829]

25. She's as disgusting as her father is, maybe even more.

[chelsea0011]

11. If she truly cared she would quit her post after daddy and other agencies

decided not to continue Obama's LGBT tradition. If Elon MusK can quit so can she.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

18. And return those Chinese patents she received as gifts.

[ck4829]

12. Her daddy's voters include the kind of people who kick their gay kids out into the streets unless

they go into conversion "therapy"... conversion torture.

And I'm sure many other of her daddy's voter base didn't even give their kids that kind of "opportunity".

But I'm sure that goes through her mind as she's licking her champagne popsicles, right?

[ck4829]

21. I understand that Ivanka's a disgusting, awful person.

Why is she silent on the Trump voters who disown their kids for being gay?

And this is true - Texas is planning on making it OK to discriminate against gay and unmarried people when it comes to adoption even though there are 15,000 children in the foster care system. Does she have anything to say about that? How many children is she planning on adopting?

[Tanuki]

24. Congratulations on your first-ever post at DU. You will learn a lot here.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/mike-pence-and-conversion-therapy-a-history.html

"A statement on an archived version of the website for Mr. Pence’s 2000 congressional campaign has been widely interpreted as signaling his support for conversion therapy. After listing his opposition to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws that protect gay people, Mr. Pence’s website takes up the issue of the Ryan White Care Act, which provides federal funding for H.I.V./AIDS patients and was reauthorized by Congress that year:

"Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."
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“That is very specific language — some might call it a dog whistle — that has been used for decades to very thinly cloak deeply homophobic beliefs,” Ms. Carey said. “Particularly the phrase ‘seeking to change their sexual behavior,’ to me, is code for conversion therapy.”
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Conversion therapy was tacitly endorsed in the Republican Party platform for the first time this year in a line that supported the “right of parents to determine the proper medical treatment and therapy for their minor children.”
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(Much more at link.....we have to limit posting excerpts to 4 paragraphs to comply with copyright laws)

[tazkcmo]

28. Awww, aren't you just too cute!

With all due respect, do you live in a cave?

[tazkcmo]

33. Just curious.

I asked due to the fact that you seem to be unaware that she works for, supports and enables the GOPee, an organization well known for hatred of all things not "christian", white or heterosexual.

And welcome to DU.

[lunasun]

30. That's a gas

[hrmjustin]

34. We are basing our reaction to the fact that this administration is not our friend.

LGBT people know who are friends are and we know the Trump regime is not our friend! Given the chance these people would remove all legal protection and rights of LGBT Americans.

[MoonRiver]

35. So true!

Pence has signaled 100 times over how deep his hatred is for the LGBT community.

[hrmjustin]

36. I think it is because of his own repression.

[MoonRiver]

37. Yes, and that is usually the case.

[Paladin]

23. To hell with her. (nt)

[samnsara]

27. go back to russia little princess

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. Vacuous and meaningless

Her words mean nothing and she has no "influence" over her father and his (mis-)Administration no matter what the MSM suggests to the contrary. If she had really want to do something for the LGBTQ community, she could've refused to support daddy for POTUS, not to mention say something to him about NOT picking Pence for VP (to the extent she carries any influence at all). And to anybody out there whom seriously believed that Trump EVER really cared about the LGBTQ community, I have just two words for you........Mike Pence. The writing was on the wall.