'It's not my thing': A history of Trump's shifting relationship with the LGBT community

[DonViejo]

By Robert Samuels and Jenna Johnson July 26 at 10:29 PM

For decades leading up to President Trump’s Wednesday tweets announcing a ban on transgender people in the military, the businessman-turned-politician has approached the LGBT community on nonideological terms.

Trump’s relationships with LGBT people, and his evolving positions on issues, have been transactional, according to people who have interacted with him, focused largely on how the community might affect his interests in the moment.

Only a year ago, candidate Trump presented himself as a social liberal seeking to move the Republican Party left on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights.

He vowed that he would do more than Democrat Hillary Clinton to protect LGBT people. He defended the rights of Caitlyn Jenner, the country’s most well-known transgender advocate, to use whichever bathroom she wanted in Trump Tower. And he added “Q” to his discussion of the “LGBTQ community” in his Republican National Convention speech to show he was in the know.

“People are people to me, and everyone should be protected,” he told The Washington Post in a May 2016 interview.

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[get the red out]

1. Not shocking

Trump says and does what he believes benefits him most at any given time.

[Solly Mack]

2. Trump's views on LGBT people have never shifted. He lied.

Allow me to correct this sentence.

"Trump’s relationships with" - everyone - is "transactional" (what he can get from people)

... (determined by) "largely on how" - other people - "might affect his interests in the moment."

The man tells whatever lie suits his needs at that precise moment. When his need changes, he'll say something else. And when his needs change again, he'll change what he says - once again - in order to get what he wants.

The man lies. Period. About everything.

[RKP5637]

3. The man is a sociopathic con artist and is now president. He's a highly dangerous

individual and many in the GOP lick his butt saying it's his style. Well, Hitler had a style too. What we see with Trump is a dictator grabbing more and more power from an inept congress.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. News flash: he's a lying piece of s**t.