Rep. Dave Min confronted criticism over the weekend for a since-deleted X publish that appeared to make use of a joke about same-sex {couples} to criticize current world occasions.
The X publish, shared Saturday morning, included a hyperlink to the New York Instances’ reside updates of the assembly between President Donald Trump and Russian chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Min, an Irvine Democrat, captioned the publish with commentary that appeared to be a joke concerning the “Putin-Trump relationship” dynamics, utilizing a time period that always describes a member of a same-sex relationship.
A spokesperson for Min declined to remark when reached Monday morning.
The publish, which was deleted by Sunday morning, drew backlash on social media, together with accusations that it was “homophobic” and “unprofessional.” A lot of the net criticism stemmed from Republicans and GOP-aligned teams.
“Within the 12 months 2025, the congressman representing Irvine, Huntington Seashore, Costa Mesa, Newport Seashore and Seal Seashore wakened and determined that his contribution to society could be a crude and derogatory homosexual joke,” mentioned Will O’Neill, chair of the Orange County Republican Occasion.
Log Cabin Republicans of Los Angeles, a gaggle that advocates for LGBTQ+ inclusion within the Republican Occasion and for LGBTQ+ Republicans within the broader group, shared a screenshot of the publish, saying, “I assumed you (had been) the get together of inclusivity and kindness. However I assume homophobic jokes are okay to make use of so long as it’s directed at your opponents.”
Min has been energetic on X since that publish, on each his official congressional account and private one, criticizing Trump for killing clear vitality initiatives and sharing photographs of his visits with native Democratic golf equipment in Irvine over the weekend.
He additionally shared one other article concerning the assembly between Trump and Putin to X about an hour after that criticized one, this one from the Washington Put up, captioning it: “Horrifying and such a horrible capitulation to evil. What did Trump and Putin focus on once they had been alone within the stomach of the Beast (the identify used for the Presidential limo)?”
In the meantime, Trump — who is thought for his at occasions offensive remarks and social media posts as properly — is assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday.
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