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Trump HATES The Gays. Oh, wait…
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Trump HATES The Gays. Oh, wait…
Scott Bessent, gay billionaire hedge fund founder, confirmed as Trump’s Treasury secretary
The Senate confirmed on Monday Scott Bessent, a gay billionaire hedge fund founder, as Treasury secretary in a vote 68-29. He’s the first out LGBTQ+ person in the Cabinet position and one of only a few to ever hold a Cabinet or Cabinet-level position.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/scott-bessent-treasury-secretary-confirmed#toggle-gdpr
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I can hear exploding heads. 🤣
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Their one token-gay. I’m sure they bribed don with a super-gulp DC and a check. I keep waiting for the riots…they will never come. America is weak, cowardice, fat, narrow-minded, insulated and gullible. I am ashamed to be American right now. And for those of you paying attention at home, things are only going to get much worse as dick-head installs all his ass-lickers and then starts sending down his putin-esque edicts and things start to really decline. Sorry to sound so negative but I don’t live in the clouds…
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Muscle4Muscle2009
Member January 29, 2025 at 1:58 am
Their one token-gay. I’m sure they bribed don with a super-gulp DC and a check.
You’re living in Democrat-fantasyland.
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One nomination doesn’t change the rest of Trump’s policies – or Supreme Court appointees.
But to give credit where due, from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
|| He is the first openly gay treasury secretary and as fifth in the presidential line of succession, he is the highest-ranking openly LGBT person in American history.<sup style=”font-family: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>[7]</sup>
|| In 2000, Bessent hosted a fundraiser for Al Gore at his East Hampton, New York, home.<sup>[31]</sup> He has also donated to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.<sup>[32]</sup> In 2016, Bessent donated $1 million to Donald Trump‘s 2017 presidential inaugural committee.<sup>[33]</sup> In 2023 and 2024, Bessent donated more than $1 million to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.<sup>[34]</sup>
|| In February 2024, Bessent hosted a fundraiser in Greenville, South Carolina, that raised nearly $7 million for Trump’s 2024 campaign.<sup>[35]</sup> In April 2024, Bessent was a host for a Palm Beach, Florida, fundraiser that raised $50 million for the Trump campaign.<sup>[36]</sup> In July 2024, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Bessent was a key economic adviser to Trump.<sup>[37]</sup> He proposed a three-point economic plan for Trump modeled on Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe‘s “Three Arrows” economic policy.<sup>[38]</sup>
|| Bessent is the first openly gay secretary of the treasury, the second openly gay Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary of an Executive Department after Pete Buttigieg, and the fifth openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet-level capacity, including interim officeholders and offices elevated to Cabinet-rank (after Demetrios Marantis, Richard Grenell, Buttigieg, and Vince Micone).<sup style=”font-family: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>[42]</sup><sup style=”font-family: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>[43]</sup>
Sorry, boys, but this half-billionaire has a husband and 2 children.
And, just saying, Pete Buttigieg is cuter.
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