A “barnstorming” tour in search of LGBTQ+ voters for Donald Trump kicked off earlier this month organized by the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), who are on their own search for proximity to power and cocktail parties should the former president regain the White House.

The MAGA king was nowhere to be found.

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“Everyone was so honored to be with her and in her presence,” said one Palm Beach gay man.

Instead, the mostly straight attendees at the series of “Trump UNITY” events have been served up a D-list from Trump’s gay central casting file, including former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, the perpetually tanned election denier who’s inexplicably called Trump “the most pro-gay president in American history”; Bill White, a Trump fundraiser who paid a million-dollar fine to settle charges he was involved in a New York State pension fund pay-to-play scandal; and Black gay Trump supporter Rob Smith, a right-wing social media influencer.

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