Trump Video Saying ‘We Have To Keep Our Country Gay’ Seen a Million Times

A video of Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina Friday night where he mistakenly says “make our country gay again…” instead of great again has been viewed over a million times on Twitter.

“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.”

Trump: “We have to keep our country gay.” He finally makes sense. 🏳️‍🌈 pic.twitter.com/Z6NGufeMQC

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 24, 2022

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.

Trump just malfunctioned again. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/4sFvCGdxnT

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 24, 2022

“Trump: ‘We have to keep our country gay.’ He finally makes sense,” tweeted Mike Sington, a former senior executive at NBCUniversal.

Trump has some supporters in the LGBTQ+ community. During a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser in March, Trump drew criticism for telling a group of his gay supporters that they don’t “look gay.”

During the event held for Michigan congressional candidate John Gibbs, who defeated Representative Peter Meijer in the GOP primary, Trump asked, “Where’s the gays for Trump?”

“You don’t look gay,” he said after somebody in the audience responded with, “We’re over here.” It is viewed as a faux pas or offensive to tell members of the LGBTQ+ community that they do or don’t “look gay.”