Tucker Lieberman
2 min readMar 5, 2022

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Reminds me of Trumpism, too. Trump tweeted 25,000 times during his presidency from his personal account, but his only tweet that included the acronym "LGBT" or the word "Pride" in an LGBT context — excepting one where he retweeted his press secretary's praise of him — was in 2019 when he tweeted that USAmericans should "stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute" them. Lest we believe he meant his concern wholeheartedly, that same week he told US embassies worldwide not to fly the Pride flag for Pride Month. For this and a hundred other reasons, he most certainly did not stand in solidarity with LGBTQ people, and his tweet claiming otherwise was a deflecting lie. Also, he made statements like this to stir up Islamophobia, not to help any LGBTQ people at home or abroad. Also, he did it, I think, to be threatening: he was saying Don't complain, because at least I'm not jailing or killing you, which I could if I wanted to, and you should remember that. The far-right exists to diminish, harass, and oppress people based on minoritized identities, and when they say that our identities are meaningless and that our concerns don't matter because somebody somewhere has it worse than you, they are perpetrating a massive hypocrisy, always, because they are the people who have spent their careers politicizing other people's identities and generating anti-queer propaganda that is used at home and abroad to devastating effect. They helped make it happen: the anti-LGBTQ actions of terrible politicians to which they gave a wink and a nod or outright applauded, as well as other violent things that those terrible politicians go on to do. It is connected.

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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