Trump’s son attacks LGBT magazine op-ed that calls effort to decriminalize homosexuality ‘racist’

President Trump’s eldest son took aim at Out Magazine on Wednesday after an op-ed in the magazine slammed the Trump administration’s push to decriminalize homosexuality around the world as a “racist” distraction.

In a tweet, Donald Trump Jr. wrote that no matter what his father’s administration pursued, his critics would always “find a way to somehow make it bad.”

“Yup, no matter what he does they find a way to somehow make it bad. You can’t make this stuff up anymore,” he wrote.

Yup, no matter what he does they find a way to somehow make it bad. You can’t make this stuff up anymore. https://t.co/WHxgsx1xA6

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 20, 2019

The tweet came in response to an op-ed by Out writer Matthew Rodriguez, who wrote that the administration’s announcement this week that it would seek to decriminalize homosexuality in countries around the world was a “racist tactic.”

Rodriguez wrote that “rather than actually being about helping queer people around the world, the campaign looks more like another instance of the right using queer people as a pawn to amass power and enact its own agenda.”

The author uses as an example of his argument the push to center the decriminalization efforts on Iran, a country president Trump has often verbally attacked.

“We know Trump is very focused on Iran and is looking for ways to demonize it in the public opinion and this is one area where you know the US and European countries see eye-to-eye on Iran,” NBC reporter Josh Lederman, who reported on the Trump administration’s LGBT plan, says in an interview with Rodriguez. 

“So it makes [sense] for them to focus strategically on that rather than sanctions, where there’s been a big gulf between the U.S. and its allies,” Lederman added.

Iran has a history of executing gay men accused of rape, and LGBT activists in the country contend that the charges are falsified in order to criminalize and obscure consensual same-sex partnerships.