Marco Rubio calls out White House for featuring topless activist
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FLV) – Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., mentioned the recent viral video of trans activist Rose Montoya going topless at a President Joe Biden’s Pride Month event during a TV appearance.
Rubio made an appearance on “America Reports” on Fox News ahead of former President Donald Trump’s indictment Tuesday.
The senator talked about his new book, Decades of Decadence, and discussed the former president who previously said the country is “a nation in decline.”
Rubio said the decline began after the Cold War and that we are the “only unipolar power on the planet, we can do whatever we want.”
“We can undertake a cultural hysteria, a ridiculous cultural hysteria that plays out,” Rubio explained.
“We had a lady or a man that now claims to be a lady, you know, going topless at the White House two days ago at about a pride celebration thing. I mean, we can do whatever we want, can be as decadent as we want in our society in our culture, we can break our politics, we can take our institution and weaponize them for political purposes on both sides,” Rubio said.
The trans activist posted a follow up video after the event and said that going topless is “legal” in Washington, D.C.
“My trans masculine friends were showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them. And because it is perfectly within the law of Washington, D.C. I decided to join them and cover my nipples just to play it safe,” Montoya said.
The White House released a statement Tuesday condemning the behavior.
“This behavior is inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House. It is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance. Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events,” the statement said.
Gays Against Groomers, a coalition of gay people created to stop the sexualization and abuse of young children, also denounced the White House pride event.
Our organization's official statement on the White House pride event and the disgraceful display that occurred there.#GaysAgainstGroomers #DoneWithPride pic.twitter.com/UATyxB3IXy
— Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) June 13, 2023
“We believe that this behavior is not only shameful and embarrassing but promotes a degenerative narrative that is dangerously divisive and threatening to set back our community by decades,” the statement said.
“The White House Pride event not only garnered unwanted media attention, but perpetuated harmful stereotypes and encouraged extreme behavior that does not and should not represent the LGBTQ community,” the group said.
