Listen: Uncovered Interview Finds Trump CEO Blasting 'Dykes' and 'Victimhood'

Tuesday August 30, 2016

In the same week that Donald Trump became the first GOP presidential candidate to sell LGBT outreach merchandise, his campaign suffered a considerable setback with reaching queer communities.

BuzzFeed recently uncovered an interview with Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon that has the former Breitbart executive using the word "dyke" and purporting that the LGBT community plays the victim card.

In a 2011 radio interview in which he was plugging the ironically titled Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated" which he directed, Bannon blasted leftist blogs for what he considered unfair treatment of conservative women. Bannon claimed that women like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Ann Coulter posed "an existential threat to the progressive narrative."

"That's why there are some unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement," Bannon said. "That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn't be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that's why they hate these women."

Bannon then went on to claim that the LGBT community and other minorities played the victim card.

"The progressive narrative Saturday morning was the progressive narrative and that is all about victimhood," Bannon said. "They're either a victim of race. They're victim of their sexual preference. They're a victim of gender. All about victimhood and the United States is the great oppressor, not the great liberator."

This isn't the first time Trump's CEO has found himself in the headlines this week. An MSNBC report notes that Bannon was arrested and charged with domestic violence 20 years ago - prosecutors ultimately had to drop the charges when Bannon's then-wife failed to show up for testimony. She also accused him of making anti-Semitic comments, which he denies having made.