Maybe it’s not Abe, maybe it’s Mary Todd Lincoln who is doing all the howling. In any event, the graveyard is not quiet tonight. No, Melania Trump is accepting the Spirit Of Lincoln award at Mar-a-Lago. Isn’t that convenient that the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of LGBTQ Republicans, oxymoronic as that sounds, are having Melania be the guest of honor right there in her own home? Donald is supposed to attend as well, which would be the first time a former president has ever appeared at one of the group’s events.
Maybe this is why Melania has showed up with Donald to two events in the past week so that she could bribe him into attending this one, ya spose? The Advocate:
Mrs. Trump will be the only member of the family speaking and scheduled to attend the Spirit of Lincoln Gala,” Log Cabin Managing Director Charles Moran told the Blade. As to whether that was a denial that Donald Trump would be present, Moran said, “I’m just telling you what I know.”
Log Cabin has often tried to paint Donald Trump as an ally of the LGBTQ+ community, but he and his administration took numerous actions against LGBTQ+ people: the transgender military ban, revoking guidelines on proper treatment of transgender youth in schools, opposition to antidiscrimination protections, promotion of the freedom to discriminate under the guise of religious liberty, the appointment of anti-LGBTQ+ judges and cabinet members, and more.
The group has defended Trump on the basis of a couple of actions: naming a gay man, Richard Grenell, ambassador to Germany and later acting director of national intelligence, and an effort, led by Grenell, to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, although it’s unclear what that effort ever entailed. Log Cabin endorsed Trump for reelection in 2020 but did not endorse him in 2016 — although it did call on supporters not to vote for his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillard Clinton.
Grenell will receive the Game Changer Award at the Spirit of Lincoln event “for both his visible role in the Trump Administration as the first openly gay man to serve in a cabinet-level position and his subsequent advocacy for the Log Cabin Republicans,” says a Log Cabin press release. After leaving the administration, Grenell became a senior adviser to the American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group founded by Pat Robertson that has a history of opposing LGBTQ+ equality, although its current work appears to focus more on opposition to abortion rights and promotion of gun rights. […]
In announcing the award to Melania Trump in a September press release, Moran said, “Melania Trump’s work as First Lady, from helping children reach their full potential to championing a more inclusive Republican Party, has been historic. Her vocal support of Log Cabin Republicans has been a signal to Republicans everywhere that it is possible to simultaneously be conservative and support equality under the law for all Americans.”
I would love to know what Melania did to help “children reach their full potential.” What, she didn’t throw rocks at them? She finished the tennis pavillon so they would have a place to hide? What?
But it’s all rhetoric and hyperbole. Too bad Abe Lincoln can’t attend himself, it looks to be a real snoozer and he’ll get some rest.
She was only interested in helping white children reach their full potential – in theory. She actually did nothing during her time as first lady. When it came to Latin children, she “really didn’t care”.
I knew a couple Log Cabin republicans. They were filthy rich and that’s the primary reason they were republicans. Gotta stick with the party that protects the rich even as it tries to diminish their basic rights.
Abe and Mary Lincoln wouldn’t have anything to do with the former guy, and the GOP has forgotten which side Lincoln was on.
What in the f*ck is the Spirit of Lincoln” award? Why are we even supposed to give a happy rat’s ass who gets it?
Now now. Let’s just give them the rat’s ass award & be done with these evil, privileged, soulless, greedy, mindless morons. The envelope please.