ROOKE: Trump’s Joke Sprung A Trap For Media
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It has been funny to watch the left attack President Trump over his joke about Kaitlin Collins and Bud Light. Their media headlines keep calling it “transphobic.” Yet the same coverage repeatedly described the comparison as an attempt to demean or insult Collins by linking her to Dylan Mulvaney. They come so close to reality, but their adherence to transgender ideology won’t allow them to tell the truth about why they found it offensive.
The ideology demands they attack Trump and use the approved language of “transphobia,” while their emotional reaction treats the comparison between Collins and Mulvaney as lowering a biological woman by association with a biological man. Trump’s joke was for us. He told it in a room full of people who pretend not to get it, but their cold expressions and silence exposed how hard it truly hit.
A man who had plastic surgery and is apparently on hormone replacement therapy to feminize his body can never be a woman. If Mulvaney was simply another woman, you wouldn’t have heard of the joke at all. If the slogan “trans women are women” were taken as literal truth rather than a loyalty test, then comparing a woman to a trans woman would carry no weight.........
