After attacking LGBT rights domestically for nearly 4 years, aides to the president - who nearly all polls show losing to Biden - are suddenly seeking LGBT support as they scramble to try to make up ground https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html?referringSource=articleShare

Trump stayed silent during Pride Month, a time during which there was a sweeping SCOTUS decision on workplace protections for LGBT people, the anniversary of Pulse shooting, the anniversary of the marriage decision, a massive march for Black trans lives https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html

After using LGBT people as a wedge against Muslims after the Pulse shooting while promising to protect rights, the Trump administration has systematically undone Obama-era protections, specifically targeting transgender people https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html

Trump, who has repeatedly made overt appeals to religious liberty that have been used to justify discrimination, and the administration have tried to divide the LGBT coalition by focusing so intently on transgender people, some officials acknowledge https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html

Trump aides highlight his "global campaign" to decriminalize being gay, but there's no evidence it's had an impact. White House officials wouldnt say if Trump's raised the Chechen leader Kadyrov's brutal anti-gay crackdowns in his many calls w Putin https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html

In 2015, when Trump aides believed his primary poll numbers would likely eventually come down, they discussed a plan to have him exit the race without looking like a loser. The plan was to include Trump saying the GOP didn't agree with him on a number of issues... 1/2

... including marriage equality, even tho Trump had never endorsed it. But then Trump stayed competitive, won NH primary and needed evangelicals. So he opposed gay marriage in March 2020 interview. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-lgbtq-rights.html