The Republican presidential nominee made the weirdest comment in his interview with Joe Rogan.
JD Vance claimed that he and Donald Trump could likely win the votes of “normal” gay men because they “just want to be left the hell alone.”
Vance appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience for a three-hour interview released Thursday, discussing everything from Emily in Paris to him standing at his front door for an hour with a loaded gun after the first Trump assassination attempt.
But one of the wildest moments in the interview came when Vance told Rogan he believed he and Trump would win the “normal gay guy vote” due to the “extremist religion” of “wokeness.”
“Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because again, they just want to be left the hell alone,” Vance said. “And now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they’re like ‘No, no … we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning their genders.’”
Rogan then went on to discuss how it’s actually the transgender movement that’s homophobic, pushing some of his most outlandish anti-trans views yet.
The number of normal gay guys who see my trans ass as family counters this one obviously
And to be clear here, I’ve met gay men who support trump and hate trans people. They’re weird. They’re the sort of gay people who don’t have any gay friends and I judge gay people for that harder than I judge straight people for it. Sometimes it just happens that a straight person doesn’t have any gay friends, gay people who don’t tend to be massively homophobic.
For no reason in particular you made me think about my circle of friends and realize I’m not sure if anyone I know is gay, because almost the entirety of my friend group is some flavor of bi/ace/demi/pan and/or trans/NB. I think there’s only 2-3 straight people in my whole group, and I don’t know how much I count since my two partners are Trans-questioning or NB lol.