Buttigieg: Strange for DeSantis to ‘Prove’ His Manhood With Video of Him With Shirtless Bodybuilders
Video takes a swipe at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump's position on LGBTQ Americans
The highest-ranking member of the Biden administration from the LGBTQ community is questioning a video that was shared by Republican Florida Gov Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign which is been criticized as homophobic.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg also questions the signals sent by a video which features various oiled-up, shirtless bodybuilders.
The video was designed to bolster the flagging DeSantis presidential effort by taking a swipe at 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
The “DeSantis War Room” Twitter account shared the video on Friday — the last day of June's LGBTQ+ Pride Month — that features footage of Trump at the Republican National Convention in 2016 saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.”
Trump had been pledging protection from terrorist attacks weeks after the shootings at the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at that time.
DeSantis is trailing Trump by a crippling nearly 30-percent deficit in support among Republicans.
Buttigieg, who is openly gay, was asked about the DeSantis video when he made an on-camera appearance on CNN.
“You know, I’m going to choose my words carefully, partly because I’m appearing as secretary, so I can’t talk about campaigns. And I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in-between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders, and just get to a bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again: Who are you trying to help?” he remarked. “Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve?”
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