It seems Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is required to have at least one despicable moment per day, and Thursday was no different . Staunch Trump ally Laura Loomer, an unhinged conspiracy theorist and social media bomb-thrower closely linked to the former president, went after U.S.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in supremely homophobic fashion, saying he’s not “a real father” because he and his husband adopted twins. “Homosexual men cannot give birth,” Loomer wrote . “Gay men can’t get pregnant or make breast milk.
You aren’t even a real father.” She also wrote: “You incubated a baby in biological woman’s womb and pretended to breast feed with plastic nipples in a hospital bed like a psychopath.” 'Is this who we want in the White House influencing policy on childcare?' Buttigieg and his husband Chasten adopted twins in 2021 .
They did not use a surrogate , and the breast-feeding bit is a lie based on a doctored and thoroughly debunked photo , the kind of right-wing garbage Loomer is known to toss about like a rabid raccoon. Loomer’s Thursday rant was in response to a social media post from Buttigieg reacting to Trump recently calling himself “the father of IVF,” an absurd notion given that Trump brought down Roe v. Wade and put in vitro fertilization in the crosshairs of pro-life zealots.
Chasten Buttigieg responded to Loomer’s hateful post , writing: "Is this who we want in the White House influencing policy on childcare or ed.
