Florida Gov’s campaign team shared. Ron DeSantis of a video on Twitter on Friday – the end of Pride Month – attacking former President Donald Trump’s positions on LGBTQIA+ issues.
“To end ‘Pride Month,’ let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…” the campaign said.
The video was created by another Twitter user and knocks the 2024 GOP challenger over his Pride merchandise, relationship with Caitlyn Jenner and 2016 promise to “protect our LGBTQ citizens.”
In contrast, the video introduces headlines — along with video cuts of Christian Bale’s “American Psycho” character Patrick Bateman and Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby on the show “Peaky Blinders” — depicting DeSantis making of actions against the transgender and LGBTQIA+ community.
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Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors national summit at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on June 30, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
It now has over seven million views on the social media platform with mixed reactions.
DeSantis has made anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation a big part of his agenda.
The governor signed bills in May that banned gender-affirming nursing for minors, targeted drag shows, restricted discussion of personal pronouns in schools and forced the people who used certain toilets.
DeSantis signed the bill at the evangelical Cambridge Christian School in Tampa.
The governor is Catholic, as is Democratic President Joe Biden. Trump, appearing at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gala in Washington, DC, said no president has “fought for Christians as hard,” according to The New York Times. Evangelicals threw their support behind Trump during the last presidential election.
Signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a series of education bills at Cambridge Christian school in Tampa, Fla. on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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In mid-June, a federal judge temporarily blocked a Florida law targeting drag shows.
DeSantis also recently criticized the White House for individuals at a Pride event who posed topless.
Spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the behavior was “unacceptable” and people would not be invited to future events.
“I think when you have inappropriate behavior in the White House with transgender people like this flashing people naked and all this stuff, it’s totally inappropriate,” DeSantis said. at a press conference. “And I think even the White House has to recognize that this is inappropriate.”
Republican presidential candidate former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors national summit at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on June 30, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
He also took a swipe at the Biden administration for displaying the American flag next to the Pride flag.
“When they have in the White House, you know, this transgender flag as the top of the American flag, that’s wrong, that’s not how you show the American flag,” the Republican said.
Experts are divided about whether the White House display is a violation of the Flag Code.
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Trump, who said the country stood in solidarity with members of the Orlando LGBT community following the Pulse nightclub shooting that killed 49 people in 2016, said he would “keep men in women’s sports” and promised to ban “child sex.” damage.”
On Friday, both Trump and DeSantis battled for the support of conservative women at the Moms for Liberty conference, both vowing to take action against the “woke” and denouncing its recent branding as an “extremist” Southern Poverty organization Law Center.
Fox News’ Aaron Kliegman, Andrew Mark Miller, Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
