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Podcast: Troye Sivan, Anti-LGBT Legislation In Wyoming & Texas, Trump Inauguration And LGBTs Scrubbed From White House Website

Take a listen to the latest The Randy Report podcast, including these stories and more:

• Minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, all information regarding LGBTs disappeared from the White House website. Hmm….

• Attendance at Donald Trump’s inaugural was dwarfed by the Women’s March on Washington the next day as hundreds of thousands marched in support for not only women’s rights but LGBT rights, civil rights, voting rights and more. And the Trumpster was not happy.

• The Texas state Supreme Court has agreed to hear an anti-LGBT hate group’s challenge to spousal benefits for same-sex couples.

• New legislation introduced in Wyoming (“The Equality State”) would legalize discrimination against same-sex couples and transgender people, and would make it impossible for any branch or part of the government to enact or enforce local non-discrimination ordinances and federal protections for the LGBT community.

• Out Music: Troye Sivan released his video for “Heaven,” from his Blue Neighbourhood album – a sensual black & white vision featuring intimate shots of Sivan along side clips of important moments in the LGBTQ rights movement.

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Washington DC Bakery Will Donate Proceeds Of Trump Inauguration Cake To LGBT Cause

Inaugural cake 2017 by Buttercream Bakeshop

Buttercream Bakeshop, a bakery located in the heart of Washington DC,  explained via Instagram post that Trump’s inaugural committee asked for the exact same cake that celeb chef Duff Goldman made for the 2nd Obama inaugural festivities four years ago.

Duff recognized the design immediately:

Buttercream says it will donate the profits for the cake to the Human Rights Campaign.

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Reuters Editor Puts Trump Crowd Commotion To Bed

The aerial photo taken at noon January 20, 2017 

After lots of back and forth about crowd sizes comparing the Trump and Obama inaugurations, Reuters editor Jim Bourg puts the issue to rest.

Most of the discussions about the crowds was based on side by side photos of the two events taken at the same time 8 years apart.

Both photos were snapped at the exact moment the new presidents took the oath of office. Thus, the comparisons are fair.

From Mr. Bourg via Facebook:

I am seeing a lot of inaccurate talk and allegations online about the crowd photos from Friday’s Trump inauguration that are simply not borne out by the FACTS. Now I see my own friends reposting this disinformation on Facebook.

Only one news organization had a still photographer atop the Washington monument for the inauguration and I assigned him to be there. This photo by Reuters News Pictures staff photographer Lucas Jackson was taken at 12:01:18 p.m. on Friday and not much earlier as many people are trying to claim.

Period.

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Kellyanne Conway U-Turns – Again – On Trump Taxes

After months of promising on the campaign trail to release his tax returns once an IRS audit is complete, Donald Trump’s White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told George Stephanopoulos, on ABC’s This Week, that Trump will not be releasing his tax returns.

Hold on, now, because you might get whiplash: Conway tweeted this morning that the White House is back to their original position, promising to release the tax returns after the “audit.”

Imagine the discussions taking place behind closed doors.

There are currently over 260K signatures on a White House petition calling for the release of Trump’s tax returns.

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WikiLeaks Promises To Release Trump Tax Returns If They Get Them

In light of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s announcement that Donald Trump will not be releasing his tax returns, after months of promising to do just that, WikiLeaks has tweeted they intend to share them if anyone sends the docs to them.

Here’s just one of many instances where Trump promised to release his tax returns:

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White House Advisor: President Trump Is “Not Going To Release His Tax Returns”

Although Donald Trump promised repeatedly throughout the presidential campaign that he would release his tax returns once an audit by the IRS was completed, today White House counselor Kellyanne Conway announced that the new president is “not going to release his tax returns.

During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos brought up the White House petition posted on Friday demanding Trump’s tax returns be released.

Conway responded thusly:

“The White House response is that he’s not going to release his tax returns. We litigated this all through the election. People didn’t care, they voted for him.”

There are currently over 200,000 signatures on the White House petition.

Trump has recently brushed aside the issue of his tax returns saying that people “don’t care” about his tax returns.

It would appear more than 200,000 Americans do.

You have to imagine that whatever is in those tax returns must be extremely damning to justify a u-turn on releasing the info in those returns.

JoeMyGod reminds us that Conway felt differently just a few months before she went to work for the Trumpster. Check out the video below:

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White House Spokesman Addressed Inauguration Crowd Size Because Trump Was “Enraged”

According to a contact of mine,  a high level producer at CNN, President Donald J. Trump directed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to address inauguration crowd sizes in the briefing room yesterday because he grew enraged by picture comparisons to former President Obama’s crowds.

Despite facts and images showing otherwise, Spicer FALSELY claimed that President Trump had the “largest audience to witness an inauguration, period.”

Why is the new President so obsessed with crowd sizes?

UPDATE:

For those interested, the Washington Post has confirmed Washington DC Metro ridership numbers for the past three full inauguration days.

For Trump: 571,000

Obama ’09: 1.1 million

Obama ’13: 783,000

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Kellyanne Conway: Sean Spicer’s Version Of Inauguration Numbers Are “Alternative Facts”

Responding to a question from Meet The Press host Chuck Todd about why Trump asked his press secretary to “utter a falsehood” during his very first news conference, presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway created a phrase I expect we’ll be hearing a lot of over the next four years.

Todd: “It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office on day one.”

Conway: “Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood. Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.”

Todd: “Alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods.”

Watch the exchange below. The full interview can be viewed here.

And the Twitterverse thoroughly enjoyed the new term: