Video of Trump Saying 'We Have to Keep Our Country Gay' Viewed 1M Times
newsweek.comDonald Trump saying "we have to keep our country gay" received more than 1 million views on Twitter over the weekend.Trump held a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday night to speak in support of his endorsed candidates ahead of November's midterm elections in the evenly-split battleground state.
During his speech, the ex-president attempted to make a reference to his 2020 campaign slogan, "Keep America Great," but misspoke—with Twitter quickly being flooded with jokes about the gaffe."Remember I was going to say, to use an expression, we have to keep our country gay," Trump said.He then appeared to notice the blunder, stumbling through the next words without correcting that he intended to say "we have to keep our country great." He continued: "But it's not—for some reason, it's just not great anymore."Videos of the gaffe spread across social media over the weekend.
A video of the clip posted by MeidasTouch, an anti-Trump Twitter account, received more than 1 million views by Sunday morning.
A separate clip posted by Twitter account, Acyn, was seen more than 600,000 times.Many social media users made jokes about the clip."Trump: 'We have to keep our country gay.' He finally makes sense," tweeted Mike Sington, a former senior executive at NBCUniversal.Trump: "We have to keep our country gay." He finally makes sense..
