Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized Saturday after his campaign shared a video accusing former President Trump of being overly LGBTQ-inclusive.
The video was posted to Twitter by the anonymous account @ProudElephantUS and does not appear to have been produced by the DeSantis campaign.
“To wrap up ‘Pride Month,’ let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it,” DeSantis War Room tweeted Friday alongside the video.
The video begins with footage of Trump saying at the 2016 Republican National Convention, “I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens,” Trump says in the spot, which also leans heavily on his past friendship with Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender athlete, and Trump ally.
The footage then pivots to DeSantis, touting various headlines from left-wing outlets describing his transgender policies as “draconian,” “totalitarianism in disguise” and “unwarranted and un-American.”
The spot also interposes clips from Christian Bale’s character Patrick Bateman from “American Psycho” Brad Pitt’s Achilles in “Troy,” Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” — and bizarrely, several stills of the Gigachad meme.
Pro-Trump conservatives were quick to condemn.
“Just because he’s so low in the polls doesn’t mean he’s got to take such cheap low shots!” Caitlyn Jenner told The Post. “But this doesn’t deter me from being an outspoken Republican or MAGA voice. It’s just another day. DeSantis has way bigger problems than his latest homophobic ad.”
Trump’s former acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, blasted the video as “undeniably homophobic,” in a tweet Friday.
The LGBT Log Cabin Republicans also condemned the video calling it “divisive and desperate.”
