Joe.My.God. LGBT News
Donald Trump’s current positions on gay marriage, foreign policy, and other issues are totally contradicted by posts pulled from his own blog using the Wayback Machine. Unshocking, yes. Via USA Today:
Ten years ago, Donald Trump had a pretty open mind about gay marriage. “If two people dig each other, they dig each other,” he wrote about the marriage of Elton John and longtime partner David Furnish. “I’m very happy for them.”
The December 2005 comment was posted on the “Trump Blog” that he maintained on the Trump University website, a kind of journal of Trump’s thoughts on everything from why he chose various contestants for Celebrity Apprentice to why women struggle in the workplace:
“I think women have a tough situation in the workplace because of the sexual undertones,” Trump wrote in October 2005. “The business environment is so cutthroat that men and women learn to use whatever they can to get ahead, including their sexuality. Yet, when women do this, the perception of them changes. That’s why women have to work harder to overcome obstacles.”
The blog is no longer live on the Internet, some of of blog posts are still viewable through the Internet Archive, a non-profit site that collects website pages.
“Mr. Trump is not a politician. He has been very clear that his views, like Ronald Reagan’s, have evolved over the years,” said spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
These days Trump rails about trade imbalances and calls for boycotts of US companies that move operations to other countries. Yet in 2005 he wrote a post headlined “Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run.” Other posts pulled from his old blog contain effusive praise for Hillary Clinton and President Obama.