Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley made anti-trans comments during a CNN Town Hall on Sunday night and received almost no pushback from moderator Jake Tapper.
Unlike Donald Trump’s similar appearance last month, Haley’s appearance was much less combative thanks to Tapper mentally tapping out.
Haley was the first to challenge Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination even though she said she wouldn’t run if he does.
Then Hateful Haley really started leaning into the MAGA bullying of the trans community to get attention.
Invoking the Bud Light controversy centered around transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney didn’t work for her at a political breakfast in New Hampshire.
But Haley used her free global platform to push her inappropriate propaganda while Tapper mostly stood by.
Haley misgendered trans girls as “biological boys playing in girls’ sports” and called it “the women’s issue of our time.”
Icky Nikki appeared to scold Tapper for even bringing it all up. Waving her arms around like a frustrated tutor whose student just doesn’t get it, she blamed the “woke agenda” for teenage girls dying by suicide.
“How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room?” Haley hatefully howled.
“And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year.”
Tepid Tapper “saw no need” to fact-check Haley for most of the broadcast, but at least he reminded her that it’s rejection from family and lack of support for LGBTQ+ kids who come out which leads to an increase in suicides.
Good to see that @jaketapper called out the nonsense here while citing @TrevorProject data (sadly, 1 in 2 trans kids will contemplate suicide), and reminding Haley that trans youth are deserving of their humanity. To folks like Governor Haley, though, they're just punchlines. pic.twitter.com/jlHhTmXx6K
— Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) June 5, 2023
But when have facts ever mattered to a MAGA-baiter?
This is pure hate being spread on CNN’s airwaves, plain and simple.
I personally don’t want Mean MAGA Mommy anywhere near another government office. Also — and it hurts to admit this— but I have to agree with Trump’s take on using the word “woke.”
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘Woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Trump said.
Anyway, Nikki’s never going to be the President, which is something Twitter understands. (story continues below tweets)
It was pretty awful hearing Nikki Haley go on national television and erroneously blame trans girls for the suicidal ideation of girls who aren't trans.
But it's been encouraging to see so many folks across the political spectrum immediately call bullshit.
— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) June 5, 2023
% who "seriously considered attempting suicide" (Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2021)
Girls 30%
Heterosexual girls 19.9%
Gay/lesbian girls 41%
Bisexual girls 51.9%
Other/questioning girls 40.8%https://t.co/hbyNXgiwqN https://t.co/pP3wODDlCT— Bill Scher (@billscher) June 5, 2023
Any journalist or media organization that refers to Nikki Haley as a “moderate” or a softer version of conservatism is guilty of journalistic malpractice. She is a vile, bigoted radical Trumpist.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 5, 2023
THIS is why @NikkiHaley is TRASH. She says the “national media” wanted to make the Mother Emanuel Massacre about race. Dylan Roof, A damn white supremacist, shot and killed NINE BLACK PEOPLE at a Bible study. WTF was it other than race? Nikki Haley is ATROCIOUS. https://t.co/mjCePU1QY8
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) June 5, 2023
Icky Nikki said a whole bunch of other terrible things, which you’re welcome to watch below.
But you can’t say you weren’t warned.
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