Fresh off celebrating her 27th birthday with a maskless party in Miami,大人 の 映画 館 Tiffany Trump hosted a "Trump Pride" event in Tampa, Florida, last Saturday. She arrived at the event, blowing kisses and shimmying to The Black Eyed Peas's 2009 hit "I Gotta Feeling."
"So let me just say how excited I am to be in this room with probably so many of my friends...I see a few of you already in here," Trump began, either doing an excellent Miley Cyrus impression or feeling a bit *cough* raspy *cough* from her birthday celebration. She punctuated her excitement with a sorority-esque "whoo!"
Trump proceeded to give a ten minute speech riddled with misinformation and tangents. I analyzed this video to spare you, dear reader, from the full ten minutes of agony.
Let's break it down:
1. LGB...what?
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After the applause and "I love you!"s, Trump began her speech. "I know what my father believes in," she said. "Prior to politics, he supported gays, lesbians, the L-G-B-Q-I-A-plus community, okay?"
For one, Trump did not include the typical T, which stands for transgender. Perhaps this was a flub on her part, but it could've also easily been purposeful. The National Center for Transgender Equality pulled together a list of anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ actions the president has taken — tracing back to his inauguration day, when the administration wiped all mentions of queer people from the the White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor's sites.
This brings us to Tiffany Trump's next lie.
2. "My father has always supported all of you."
Trump then launches into the same cries of fake news that the president does daily. She said people question her support of her father. She imitated them: "We know you, we know your best friends are gay, we know your best friends are this, this, this."
Trump said she's a supporter "because my father has always supported all of you," while pointing out to the crowd.
This is patently false. In addition to the National Center for Transgender Equality's list, you can dive into at ProPublica's exhaustive reporting on how President Trump is reversing the progress of LGBTQ rights in real time. Among other actions, his administration signed a law that undercut protections for queer workers; banned transgender troops; and proposed that HHS-funded adoption and foster care agencies can turn away LGBTQ providers.
3. Her father can't be bought off — and is also against Big Pharma, apparently
The president pardons friends who help him, but his daughter made the audacious claim he can't be bought off. Later in the speech Tiffany mentions that her father is going against Big Pharma (as well as the establishment, tech monopolies, and of course the "deep state"), yet you may remember that he shills drugs that he himself has stakes in. Where's the "sure, Jan" gif when you need it?
4. Tiffany's mother had a friend who died of AIDS
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As BuzzFeed's David Mack pointed out on Twitter, Trump changes tones from bubbly to somber in seconds flat when she mentions that one of her mother's friends died of AIDS. Just as knowing a Black person doesn't make you not-a-racist, knowing some gay — or someone who died of AIDS — doesn't make you a supporter of the queer community.
5. An apparent AIDS cure
"What I think is so powerful," an emotional Tiffany Trump said after mentioning this dead friend of her mother's, "[is] when my father says there will be a cure for AIDS within the next 10 years, there will be."
Where do I start? The president did announce a 10-year plan to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the U.S. last year. He also said that he will end both AIDS and child cancer "very shortly." Eliminating and curing are not the same thing, for one, and HIV is not the same diagnosis as AIDS.
What's more is that experts at the time were skeptical of the plan due to the administrations treatment of LGBTQ people. Scott A. Schoettes, one of six experts to resign from the president's HIV/AIDS advisory council shortly after Trump took office, told Infectious Disease Newslast year that this plan contradicts many of the Trump administration's current policies.
"I won’t believe this president is really committed to achieving this goal until he starts talking off-teleprompter at his rallies and stops advocating for polices that work directly against it," said Schoettes, now HIV project director at Lambda Legal, to Infectious Disease News.
Earlier this year, Trump praised an AIDS vaccine that doesn't exist.
6. "My dad is not a politician."
Tiffany Trump's father is literally the president, which is about as much of a politician as you can possibly be. Next.
7. "Yas, Trump pride, whoo!"
The fact that Trump even uttered this is unholy.
Before Tiffany made her exit, accompanied by Katy Perry's "Roar," she mentioned how she doesn't have a speechwriter. "I write everything that I say," she said, evoking her RNC speech.
"I can't have anyone else write for me. Unless it's my words, I'm not gonna say it I'm not gonna speak."
That was deeply apparent watching this, and perhaps those words were the most honest thing said at the Trump Pride event.