Donald Trump praises registered sex offender invited to speak at White House event for children’s fitness

[j brown's body]

"President Donald Trump’s attempt to revive the long-defunct Presidential Fitness Test veered into political scandal and absurdity Thursday after he launched the children’s health initiative alongside a convicted sex offender, boasting that there’s "nobody like him." It was meant to be a nostalgic salute to American fitness. Instead, it became a microcosm of the Trump presidency: chaotic, controversial, and colliding with decades of unresolved questions about power, accountability, and abuse. In front of cameras, Trump signed an executive order reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. Framed as a national push for “discipline, strength, and American excellence,” the initiative was rolled out at a Roosevelt Room event meant to evoke Cold War-era unity. What it evoked instead was outrage.

Former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, 66, stood just feet from Trump during the launch. Taylor is a registered sex offender who, charged with statutory rape in 2011, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute after paying for sex with a trafficked 16-year-old girl, ESPN reported. He claimed he believed she was 19. He was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. In 2024, he was arrested again in Florida for failing to update his address on the state registry, a repeat violation, ESPN reported."

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I'm sure in Trump's mind, Taylor's only problem is that he got caught.

 

[ASHES]

Maybe he didn't know. Didn't vet him. Didn't listen to people that did. Whatever. It's almost as bad.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Waiting for the usual suspects to present us with excuses.

 

[phoenix2020]

Waiting for the usual suspects to present us with excuses.

Ideally we'd get something novel or clever, but it'll probably be some boring Joe Biden deflection.

 

[j brown's body]

Maybe he didn't know. Didn't vet him. Didn't listen to people that did. Whatever. It's almost as bad.

He's a very incurious person.

“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” he wrote. “Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about...."

Donald Trump dined with white nationalist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

The former president hosted Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago. He said it was “quick and uneventful.”

www.politico.com

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Trump is like flies to shit for these kinds of people. A lot of good and decent people are Trump supporters, but his most ardent supporters tend to the most utterly reprehensible people out there.

 

[Integrityrespec]

"President Donald Trump’s attempt to revive the long-defunct Presidential Fitness Test veered into political scandal and absurdity Thursday after he launched the children’s health initiative alongside a convicted sex offender, boasting that there’s "nobody like him." It was meant to be a nostalgic salute to American fitness. Instead, it became a microcosm of the Trump presidency: chaotic, controversial, and colliding with decades of unresolved questions about power, accountability, and abuse. In front of cameras, Trump signed an executive order reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. Framed as a national push for “discipline, strength, and American excellence,” the initiative was rolled out at a Roosevelt Room event meant to evoke Cold War-era unity. What it evoked instead was outrage.

Former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, 66, stood just feet from Trump during the launch. Taylor is a registered sex offender who, charged with statutory rape in 2011, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute after paying for sex with a trafficked 16-year-old girl, ESPN reported. He claimed he believed she was 19. He was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. In 2024, he was arrested again in Florida for failing to update his address on the state registry, a repeat violation, ESPN reported."

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I'm sure in Trump's mind, Taylor's only problem is that he got caught.

I'm not going to condone or condemn what I don't know. Is Taylor lying or telling the truth about thinking the girl in question was 19. I have no idea. I do know that when I was in school, high school and college I knew more than one girl who was not yet of age that frequented bars and clubs with fabricated ID's that said they were of legal age. Who is responsible for that if something sexual occurs? I'm asking because I think the crime was committed by the person using a forged ID. What does the law actually say.

 

[Rexedgar]

I'm not going to condone or condemn what I don't know. Is Taylor lying or telling the truth about thinking the girl in question was 19. I have no idea. I do know that when I was in school, high school and college I knew more than one girl who was not yet of age that frequented bars and clubs with fabricated ID's that said they were of legal age. Who is responsible for that if something sexual occurs? I'm asking because I think the crime was committed by the person using a forged ID. What does the law actually say.

Don’t confront me none. Taylor is a registered sex offender who has no clue why he was at the podium…….

 

[uptower]

I'm sensing a pattern....