>The remark came while defending U.S. strikes in a Jake Paul interview. https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-iran-gays-jake-paul?1>President Donald Trump used a YouTube interview with influencer and boxer Jake Paul to invoke a familiar anti-LGBTQ+ trope while defending the United States’ escalating military campaign against Iran, even as his administration has attempted to deport a gay Iranian couple back to the country.>Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.>The nearly half-hour conversation, posted Friday, drifted between boxing, social media, war, immigration, and politics. But one moment in particular stood out.>While discussing the widening regional conflict involving Israel, U.S. forces, and Iran, Paul said he was surprised that some activists in the United States criticized Trump’s military actions while also expressing support for women’s rights. “I was a bit shocked that so many activists in America didn’t like it,” Paul said. “Meanwhile, they were like, ‘Oh, well, we support women. We want women to have all these rights.’ Meanwhile, you’re liberating the women of Iran.”>Trump responded by invoking LGBTQ+ people in Iran. “We support gays, but they throw gays off the buildings,” Trump said.>The line has become a familiar refrain in conservative political rhetoric. It invokes the real and brutal persecution of LGBTQ+ people in countries such as Iran, where same-sex relationships are criminalized and can carry punishments including imprisonment, flogging, and death, as a way to defend hawkish foreign policy.
>Trump was defending U.S. strikes against Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure in a campaign the administration calls Operation Epic Fury, which he has said was necessary to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But LGBTQ+ advocates say the argument reduces queer people to a political talking point, used to criticize foreign adversaries while sidestepping debates about LGBTQ+ rights at home.>Trump’s rhetoric about protecting LGBTQ+ people from a regime that criminalizes their existence stands in stark contrast to the immigration policies of his own administration.>Earlier this year, immigration authorities sought to deport two gay Iranian men who are in a relationship back to Iran, where same-sex relationships are illegal and can be punishable by death under Iranian law. The couple fled Iran after being arrested by morality police for alleged “homosexual conduct,” according to their attorney. They eventually reached the United States seeking asylum, but remained detained for more than a year while facing removal proceedings that could have sent them back to Iran.>Their lawyer, Bekah Wolf, told The Advocate that they are “textbook asylum cases,” noting that people fleeing countries where their identities can lead to torture or execution are precisely the individuals asylum law is meant to protect.>At one point during the interview, Trump boasted that U.S. military strikes had effectively dismantled Iran’s armed forces. “We wiped out their Navy, we wiped out their Air Force, we wiped out everything there is to wipe out,” Trump said. Independent reporting has confirmed damage to Iranian military assets during the conflict, but has not supported the president’s assertion that the country’s military capability has been entirely destroyed.>Trump also repeated his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. “I got cheated,” he said, comparing the election to a rigged boxing match.
>The president also claimed Washington, D.C., had become “the safest city in the country,” asserting that murders had fallen from several per week to zero. While homicides in the nation’s capital have declined significantly in the past year, publicly available police data shows the city still records killings and does not rank as the safest city in the United States. Trump also claimed, without evidence, that “11,888 murderers” entered the United States and that more than half had killed more than one person.>Paul, who has tens of millions of followers across social media, praised Trump for appearing on podcasts and YouTube shows popular with younger audiences. Trump credited his youngest son, Barron, with encouraging him to pursue those appearances. “My son Barron… knew a lot of the podcasters or influencers,” Trump said, adding that they were “very important” to his success with younger voters.>At one point in the conversation, Trump summed up the worldview that ran through much of the interview.>“There’s no feeling like winning,” he told Paul.
>>1497711that's funny
>>1497711>Meanwhile, you’re liberating the women of Iran.”Yes, like how they liberated a school full of girls from life and ignoring that Trump is perfectly fine with the regime staying in power, just like in Venezuela, as long as it does what he wants, and womens lib is not one of his demands.
>>1497720tRump still remembers the day, when he grabbed one of his beauty contestants by the pu*sy, and felt a c*ck. It's been rumored that he said at the time," oh well, rapers can't be choosers"
>>1497711Israel is the most LGBT place on earth and when the genocide started in Gaza there was a push to get gays against Palestine because of the sharia laws against all forms of adultery, bearing in mind there’s no gay marriage in Islam. This isn’t surprising that Trump is taking this swerve, and it will work against gays who can only think in terms of the friend-foe dichotomy. It’s desperate though because we’re talking about <10% of the population in the US and of those how many would fall for it would be very few indeed. But that’s ok, even if half the gays decide they need to support an invasion that’s going to push overall support up to around 30% tops. Trump is manufacturing consent here and being Islamophobic
>>1497727I should add that Trump being Islamophobic here indicates that he’s being coached into this by the Zionists
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>Jake Paul interviewi don't care about jake paul until he gets his cocksucking jaw fixed
>>1497711He also says Iran executes protestors while doing the same himself.
>>1497774To be fair, dead faggots weren't protesting.
Brave for the pedo in children to get near the grifter loser who beats up geriatrics.
>>1497774There was 2 casualties in MinnesotaThere was 36,000 during the Iran Massacres.
>>1497800I like how you admit you trump murdered the two after spending months smearing the victims.
>>1497801>Trump murderedno he didn't esl shill have another rupee
>>1497711I support throwing Jake Paul off a building and then deporting the resulting pancake
Trump is doing this for the Iranian people. Okay, maybe now those hundreds of schoolgirls, but the other Iranian people. He's doing it for them.
>>14978002 that we know of. 38’000 is an assumption
>>1497802>The Russian bot seething
>>1497814BasedIt was very satisfying seeing Anthony Joshua break his jaw
>>1497834you're projecting again, esl shill. never support a black man beating a white man
>>1497711>Trump responded by invoking LGBTQ+ people in Iran. “We support gays"Well, go get to it, ESL faggots
>>1497862I've always supported gays.And I'll always be there to support gays.As me and the boys chuck them off of roofs.
>>1497862Republicunts have always loved the gays and IsraelIts why Lindsey Graham is still in office and has been popular with every Republicunt administration>>1497885So is your friend named roof, or have you named their penis roof? Either way your homosexual fuck parties aren't /news/
>>1497890Your English is piss poor
>>1497890>So is your friend named roof, or have you named their penis roof?Co Ping Fag Got
>>1497912>>1497916>seething faggots contribute nothingas was predicted
Iran does throw gays off buildings That doesn't mean that all Iranian gay people have a right to stay in america Can you imagine if all it took to get a free stay in america was claim to be gay Everyone from a shitholewould just tell the government that they were gayWhat's the government going to do, check?And since sexuality is a spectrum and you can be gay one decade straight the next They can just say "oh I'm not gay I like women now"But they still can't be deported because Iran would still kill themIf that's how it worked we would be chock full of gayranians before ChristmasThe gays of Iran should stay and fight for their freedoms just like our gays didOur gays fought at StonewallOur gays have pride Iranian gays just run away which is totally indicative of the Iranian spirit Im tired of anyone who has a sob story getting a free pass Deport them all! If their country isn't safe, deport them to a different oneOr even just deport them to the same one I don't care anymoreDeport them all that's what I voted for and that's what millions of Americans voted forI hope he gets to work soon after november it's just going to be impeach impeach impeachI bet they impeach him 3 times this time they always want to beat their record Should deport the Democrats too
