Sep 11
Gay Twitter Goes to Town on Trump's Debate Claim about Trans Immigrants
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 1 MIN.
Donald Trump has come up with some imaginative things, but one claim he made during his Sept. 10 debate with Kamala Harris caught Gay Twitter's attention – and users of X, as Twitter has been renamed, promptly made a comical meal of it.
Though "LGBTQ+ rights were scarcely mentioned" in the Sept. 10 debate, Them reported, "transgender people in particular got one very meme-able shoutout from a sputtering Trump, who at one point proclaimed, 'Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison!'
"The remark came during a long and disconnected rant from Trump about crime, Minneapolis, oil drilling, guns, and the size of his inheritance from his father," Them went on to add, "but it immediately caught the attention of some of the best on X, who rose to the occasion with their own important commentary."
Typical of the wit and snark that greeted the former president's claim was a tweet from "writer and critic Hunter Harris," who posted an image from the opening of the HBO drama "Succession" – about the craven dealings of a super-rich family that owns an influential media empire – that both mocked and predicted the sad state of our truth-challenged political moment.
Check out some of the other posts that flooded the platform:
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
