It turns out Donald Trump’s attempt at using the Louisiana
flooding as a campaign photo op is getting worse for him by the minute.
The original optics were bad enough when he showed up and spent less
than a minute unloading some Play-Doh from a truck before leaving. Then
local authorities
disputed his claim
that the Play-Doh truck was even donated by him. And after he claimed
that he had made a $100,000 donation but reporters couldn’t
track it down, he’s now admitting the donation went to a local anti-gay hate group.
Trump’s six figure “donation” actually
went to a group
called the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, which is a local front for
‘interim pastor” Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council –
a notorious anti LGBT entity disguised as a family values group and now
disguised as a church. Perkins lost his home in the flood, a story
which garnered significant headlines for its irony after so many
anti-gay “pastors” had previously claimed that Hurricane Katrina had hit
Louisiana as part of God’s wrath against gay people.
Now it appears Donald Trump may simply have been giving the $100,000
to the Tony Perkins-fronted group so that he could rebuild his own home.
That’s all well and good, except that Perkins is a wealthy man in
addition to being a hateful bigot, and could easily have his house
rebuilt himself. In fact his Council is regularly on the receiving end
of
massive contributions from corrupt conservative billionaires.
So to recap: not only did Donald Trump hand out Play-Doh to
working class people in desperate need of food and water and money to
rebuild their own modest homes, it turns out he didn’t even donate the
Play-Doh he was handing out, and then he gave a six figure donation to a
wealthy local hate monger. It’s increasingly beginning to look like
Trump would have fared better if he’d taken the Louisiana Governor’s
advice and just stayed away.
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