...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...making him the first openly gay cabinet member in U.S. history has nothing to do with "identity politics" and simply reflected that the president picks the most effective people for federal positions.
"The one thing I love about President Trump is he doesn’t care about these issues," Grenell said on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel.
"He doesn’t play identity politics. You know, somebody recently asked me how many gays and lesbians work in the Trump administration. I had to answer, ’I have no idea. I really don’t know.’ This person said to me, ’well, there you go — that’s the reason — because we had 2,410 in the B.O. regime, the Obama-Biden administration.’
I said, ’I’d be pretty offended that I was on a list that says here’s our gay and lesbian list.’ Thank God we don’t keep a list. Thank God we don’t hire people because they come out of a box and say ’here is a black, here is a Hispanic, here is a gay person.’ President Trump, I know him well, he doesn’t care about these types of issues. They’re irrelevant characterizations about someone. What is relevant is whether or not they can do the job."
Log Cabin Republicans this past week released a video of Grenell, which the president shared on Twitter, hyping the fact that it was Trump — a Republican — who had the first-ever openly gay cabinet member in U.S. history, something former Democrat President Barack Obama
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