Michael Cohen's Mea Culpa podcast, which was released on Monday.Newsweek has contacted Donald Trump Jr. for comment by email, via the Trump Organization where he works as executive vice president, requesting comment.
Trump Jr. has not previously acknowledged having a relationship with the singer.Over the past few years, Trump Jr. has established himself as a firm favorite among his father's conservative support base, and was accused of peddling "unvarnished homophobia" after describing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as "the gay guy," and suggesting he was only in the role "because he was gay and they check off a box."On the podcast, O'Day said she'd visited a gay club one night with Trump Jr., during which "everyone was in a G-string or less."Referring to the future president's son, she said: "My assistant said he was very comfortable and she remembered him being totally chill and nice with everybody which, I mean, I looked at his Instagram for the first time in years the other night and saw all kinds of jokes you know, kind of belittling the gay community, transgender women, etc..."I thought to myself, man you were super comfortable in that gay club.
In fact, so comfortable that we ended up going to the bathroom and, for the first time, had sex in a gay club bathroom."More recently, Trump Jr.
has taken to comparing children being taught about LGBTQ+ relationships with "grooming" on social media. In April 2022, he spoke out in defense of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' Parental Rights in Education law, which banned teaching on sexual orientation for students through third grade, claiming its opponents are "trying to indoctrinate and groom these children."Trump Jr.