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Kentucky BBQ Food Truck Sparks Backlash With Their Trump-Loving 'LGBTQ' T-Shirt

Kentucky BBQ Food Truck Sparks Backlash With Their Trump-Loving 'LGBTQ' T-Shirt
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It should be no secret by now that anybody who is a friend of Trump is no friend to the LGBTQ+ community.

And Belle's Smokin' BBQ in Kentucky has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the American right is not only insensitive, but outright cruel in their grandstanding of their "values."


The BBQ joint in Williamstown, Kentucky, made an extremely insensitive T-shirt that said "I support LGBTQ: Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump, BBQ."

Immediately, people from all walks of life began calling, emailing, and tagging the group on social media for the unbelievably irreverent transgression.





According to The Hill, Jamie Smith, the owner of the business and his staff have already been wearing these sorry excuses for a joke for over a year. It was only when they tried to capitalize on them on social media that they were called out.

"I posted it at about 6, and at about 10 a.m. is when the threatening calls came."

"Social media went berserk."







This is why we DO BETTER.

Of course, not one to be "brought down by snowflakes from the left," Belle's Smokin BBQ posted an extreme non-apology apology:


Chris Hartman, the executive director of the Louisville Fairness Campaign, weighed in to say the shirts are not only offensive, but just a plain old "bad idea."

"What a bad business model, to automatically isolate not just a segment of your potential customer base, but all of their family and friends."






Hartman also noted that there was no way the shirts were not intended to provoke LGBTQ+ people, and that the truck's wimpy non-apology does not suffice.

"How are they going to be inclusive? Is there going to be a Pride Month barbecue special? The rainbow sliders, or something," he said. "At this point, it's not enough to just say we're sorry. You actually have to take actionable steps to prove that you're going to be inclusive."

Meanwhile, Smith reportedly "has no plans to stop selling the shirts. They're out of stock now but more shirts are on the way, he said, and orders are coming in from all over the country."

Just remember, it's likely that someone you know bought one of these shirts or supports its cruelty.

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