Don Jr.’s oligarch-funded wedding scandal just got hit with a gender-affirming care reveal
Donald Tr*mp Jr. is having a rough week. After a scathing ProPublica report, readers learned that the president’s son’s 3-day destination wedding was largely funded by a Russian oligarch. The sh*t didn’t take too long to hit the fan. Even Melania had to send out an emergency statement claiming she had nothing to do with […]
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Donald Tr*mp Jr. is having a rough week.
After a scathing ProPublica report, readers learned that the president’s son’s 3-day destination wedding was largely funded by a Russian oligarch. The sh*t didn’t take too long to hit the fan. Even Melania had to send out an emergency statement claiming she had nothing to do with Umar Kremlev, the Putin-associated pal of Don Jr. and his bride Bettina Tr*mp (née Anderson.)
But apparently, all that was just the tip of the iceberg. Hidden in that same report was an even more intriguing detail about Don Jr.’s prenuptial plans. “The president’s son had undergone treatment to better define his jawline for the occasion,” the piece explains, linking to an Instagram post from the treatment center that spilled the beans on Don Jr’s course of Ultherapy, a technology claiming to use Ultrasound technology to help lift and define loose, aging skin.
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Nothing wrong with that, of course. Plenty of people of all genders enjoy a bit of nip and tuck before the big day. The problem is that for Don Jr., a fan of his father’s sweeping anti-trans agenda, it’s just a tad bit hypocritical.
“Wait, Jr got gender affirming care?” someone commented. Political writer Rob Crilly made the same observation on X.
We know Republicans love a bit of plastic surgery, and honestly, good for them. The problem isn’t the procedures themselves. It’s the political framing of trans peoples’ own gender-affirming care as sick “mutilation” to score ignorant votes, while treating themselves to as much (legal, safe) gender-affirming care as they like.
Don Jr. is as guilty of this as fellow gender-affirming care MAGAite Nancy Mace, who has made her anti-trans views plain—as has Don Jr. Last year, on the anniversary of 9/11, he claimed: “I can’t name, including probably like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, a group that is more violent per capita than the radical trans movement.”
Cis people might not think that certain procedures have much to do with affirming their gender, but that’s because they don’t have to. Popular surgeries like breast augmentation, Botox, and Don Jr’s own jawline-defining treatment might not seem like a big deal, and in a perfect world, they wouldn’t be, for either cis or trans people.
But we live in a world where the Tr*mps have actively amped up anti-trans prejudice to gain power and make money. For Don Jr. to turn around and use that money to get his own cosmetic treatment—while letting a potential enemy of the country foot the bill for his wedding party—is just a little bit shady. Especially since the Tr*mps have helped foster the lie that transgender surgeries and treatments are paid for by American taxpayers. Which, to be clear, they are overwhelmingly not.
Maybe Don Jr.’s cosmetic surgery center didn’t mean to out him as benefiting from gender-affirming care with their post…or maybe they did. If so, it’s extremely c*nty of them and we’re obsessed.
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