Trump doesn’t want trans people serving in the military. He doesn’t believe someone should be able to use a bathroom they feel comfortable with. His administration has moved to roll back anti discrimination policies involving adoption by same sex couples. He wants to allow doctors to discriminate against patients based on their sexual orientation/identity.
You don’t get to do all of these things and then unabashedly sell pride t-shirts with your campaign slogan on them. At least normal people living in a normal time would not. The modern political right in America is basically incapable of shame.
It’s a sad state of affairs for the GOP, if simply holding a flag marks praise.
At the GOP convention, when Trump pledged to protect the LGBTQ community, he ONLY meant against radical Islam. He did make pledges to RR organizations that they wouldn’t be forced to serve gays, lesbians, and transgenders.
So I do not necessarily believe he turned his back on the LGBTQ community or threw them under the bus, when he never really supported them in the first place.
All what we have is a statement in 2000, when he said that sexual orientation should be included in the 1964 civil rights act. This was way way before he was pandering toward the religious right.
It gets even worse: Trump now wants to give homeless shelters the option of not allowing transgender or gay individuals, if there’s a religious objection, AND wants to allow employers the option of getting rid of medical benefits to trans workers.