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Barack Obama has been married to spouse Michelle Obama for almost 34 years.
Regardless of that lengthy and profitable union, the official X (previously Twitter) account of the Republican Get together urged in the present day that the previous president is secretly homosexual.
The weird scenario started on Thursday morning when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was requested in regards to the probability that the US will at some point elect a homosexual president.
“What do you assume we’re going to have first: Are we going to have a feminine president first, or a homosexual president?” TMZ requested the consultant from New York.
“Properly, we don’t know if we’ve already had a homosexual president, to be sincere with you,” Ocasio-Cortez astutely identified.
“I feel there are probabilities that perhaps we have now, I dunno.”
There are a number of presidents who historians imagine might need had gay tendencies, together with James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln.
(Sure, we’d have had two homosexual presidents in a row!)
However sensing the chance to take a jab at a rival politician, the parents who run the GOP’s account determined to trace — with the tweet above — that Obama was the homosexual prez.
Not surprisingly, X customers from throughout the ideological spectrum have been fast to name out the immaturity and homophobia of the tweet.
However the try at humor backfired in different methods as nicely, with many commenters stating a few of the tendencies of the present White Home resident.
“The present president is obsessive about opera, musicals, and inside design,” one person wrote.
“My wager is with the make-up carrying, present tune loving, inside design obsessed felon,” one other added.
“Humorous. At the least he’s no pedo like Donald. You’re the occasion who defend pedophiles,” a 3rd chimed in.
Yeah, that most likely wasn’t the form of reply the GOP was anticipating, nevertheless it’s definitely the type they deserved.
We suppose if we have been in search of a vivid aspect right here, we could be inclined to level out that a minimum of the tweet was barely much less offensive than the racist Obama meme Trump shared again in February.
Hopefully, we’ll finally return to a time when politicians and the parents who talk on behalf of events behaved like grown-ups. However most likely not.