By EDDIE SCARRY (@ESCARRY)

On gay-related issues, the news media couldn't have picked a Republican president more in sync with their views than Donald Trump.

But the country isn't dealing with a rational press right now.

The GOP was stuck on gay stuff until a New Yorker came along and cleared the field for them by saying he was not only "fine" with same-sex marriage but also by actively embracing gays in a bigger way than President Obama did.

Meanwhile, Trump, having grown up in the most diverse city in the world, is an outcast among the gay-supporting national media.

In a cover piece for Newsweek in 2012, Andrew Sullivan dubbed Obama "the first gay president."

He also choked up on national television, calling Obama a "father figure" because he said he supported gay marriage.

Obama's main claim to gay celebrity was changing his mind on marriage. He opposed same-sex marriage before he was first elected in 2008 and then he came to support it before his second term. (By the way, the Supreme Court handled the dirty work, Obama simply nodded in approval.)

Trump was not the first to support gay marriage, but he did a lot. After the mass terror shooting on the Orlando gay nightclub in June, he did what no other Republican would have ever done. He called it an attack on "the members of Orlando's LGBTQ community" and said the tragedy was done "in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual orientation."

Full column at WashingtonExaminer.com