{"id":1953562,"date":"2023-06-21T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-desantis-pac-hits-trump-in-ad-over-past-support-of-trans-competitors-in-his-beauty-pageants\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:22:47","slug":"pro-desantis-pac-hits-trump-in-ad-over-past-support-of-trans-competitors-in-his-beauty-pageants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-desantis-pac-hits-trump-in-ad-over-past-support-of-trans-competitors-in-his-beauty-pageants\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis PAC criticizes Trump for supporting transgender contestants in beauty pageants."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-desantis-pac-hits-trump-in-ad-over-past-support-of-trans-competitors-in-his-beauty-pageants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1953562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Controversial Past of Donald Trump and Transgender Contestants<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down released an ad on Wednesday hitting former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> over his past support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-desantis-pac-hits-trump-in-ad-over-past-support-of-trans-competitors-in-his-beauty-pageants\/\" title=\"DeSantis PAC criticizes Trump for supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-celebration-of-womanhood-transgender-competitor-wins-miss-nevada-usa\/\" title=\"A \u2018Celebration Of Womanhood\u2019: Transgender Competitor Wins Miss Nevada USA\">transgender contestants<\/a> in beauty pageants.&#8221;>transgender contestants competing<\/a> against women in his Miss Universe pageant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Change in Position<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trump has vowed to \u201cdefeat the cult of gender ideology\u201d as he pursues a second term in the White House, but he had a very different position on the issue just a decade ago when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trumps-position-on-the-transgender-issue-has-utterly-changed-over-the-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> letting a man claiming to be a woman compete in the Miss Universe pageant that he owned at the time. Referring to 23-year-old Canadian Jenna Talaackova as a \u201cwoman,\u201d Trump said the contest should be open to men who identify as women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Unforeseen Changes<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI talk about transgender, everyone goes crazy,\u201d Trump says at the start of the ad, remarks that he made this year. \u201cWho would have thought five years ago you didn\u2019t know what the hell it was?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Support from Unexpected Sources<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ad then cuts to Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro saying back in 2012, \u201cDonald Trump made a controversial decision to allow a transgendered woman, born as a man, to compete in the Miss Universe beauty pageant.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018let her run, and I think I made the right decision, I feel fine with the decision,&#8217;\u201d Trump said during an interview at the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ad then cuts to Talaackova talking about the medical process that he went through to transition, saying that it was \u201cpretty intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was obvious to us that she was entitled to compete,\u201d Trump said during the interview at the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When a contestant was asked if it would be \u201cfair\u201d for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-norway-just-criminalize-misgendering-a-trans-person-even-in-private-homes\/\" title=\"Did Norway Just Criminalize \u2018Misgendering\u2019 a Trans Person, Even in Private Homes?\">transgender individual<\/a> to beat out a woman in the contest, the contestant, Olivia Culpo, said that she did support it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-the-left-so-quick-to-dispose-of-women\/\" title=\"Why Is The Left So Quick To Dispose Of Women?\">natural-born women<\/a>, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it\u2019s a free country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trump responded to Culpo\u2019s answer by saying: \u201cShe gave a great answer and she really did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When asked if \u201cin the future can transgender women compete in Miss Universe,\u201d Trump responded, \u201cYes,\u201d according to a clip in the video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<br \/> <span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block;width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-DeSantis super PAC, Never Back Down, criticized former President Donald Trump for his previous endorsement of transgender contestants in his Miss Universe pageant. Trump, who aims for a second term, has pledged to &#8220;overcome the gender ideology movement.&#8221; The ad was released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1953563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3865,26615,3763,4980,7409,29342,4482,4019,3634],"class_list":["post-1953562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-beauty","tag-contestants","tag-criticizes","tag-desantis","tag-pac","tag-pageants","tag-supporting","tag-transgender","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}