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Lauren Boebert tricked Dave Chappelle into taking selfie at Capitol while rubbing her mitts together for transphobic tweet.
Dave Chappelle came out as a “TERF” (trans exclusionary radical feminist) two years ago and has since made anti-trans and anti-gay jokes a part of his act. And yesterday, he ran into one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ members of Congress, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and she grabbed a smiling selfie with him.
“Just three people who understand that there’s only two genders,” she wrote, stressing maybe one of the only things she and Chappelle have in common: their antipathy towards transgender people. Also in the pic was Freedom Caucus member Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-CA), who has said that LGBTQ+ people support pedophilia.
While Chappelle has been accused of using transphobic material in his shows, he reportedly was not pleased to be associated with Boebert’s message.
He said during his standup act at DC’s Capital One Arena that he granted the photo request by Boebert for a human moment to bridge the political divide, but felt “blindsided” by her, according to a progressive influencers blog.
“It’s a shame she tricked me,” Chappelle said, per Call to Activism. “I had two tickets to ’Beetlejuice” and I was going to give her one!”
“Beetlejuice” was the musical that led to public scorn being heaped on Boebert. She and her date were ejected from a performance in Denver for groping, vaping and talking during the show.
Politico’s Kevin Baron, who said he was at Chappelle’s show, wrote on X that the comedian “made clever wink-nod jokes about his history of trans jokes and said something like, ‘Just when I thought we were past that, she dragged me back in!’ ”
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