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Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine

President suggested sending 'Gays for Palestine' to negotiate in the Middle East.

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Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine

What this story says

  • Donald Trump mocked LGBTQ activists who support Palestine at a rally in Mobile, Alabama.
  • Trump suggested sending the group, which he referred to as 'Gays for Palestine,' to negotiate in the Middle East.
  • He stated that if sent to negotiate, 'You will never see them again.'
  • Activists in this movement typically refer to themselves as 'Queers for Palestine'.

Who covered it

Left 17%(1)Centre 0%(0)Right 83%(5)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 7 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

59/100

Hype

68/100

7 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

Only 1 of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Donald Trump mocked LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine at a rally in Mobile, Alabama. He referenced a movement he called 'Gays for Palestine,' questioning what happens to gay people in that region. Trump suggested sending this group to negotiate in the Middle East, stating, 'You will never see them again.'

Disagreement on activist group's name

Joe.My.God. reported that activists usually refer to themselves as 'Queers for Palestine.' WIN reported that President Trump took aim at 'Queers for Palestine.' The other reports, including those from Times of India, news-pravda.com, Bizpac Review, and American Wire News, referred to the group as 'Gays for Palestine' or 'Gays * for Peace' and 'Gays* for Palestine.'

What the coverage left out

None of the centre-rated outlets ran this story. None of the right-rated digests mention that activists usually refer to themselves as 'Queers for Palestine,' a detail noted by Joe.My.God.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 6 times, most recently on 5 Oct 2026, 04:15, and will add the sides that appear.

How other outlets pictured it

Which photograph to run is each newsroom’s own choice. The leaning beside a name is that outlet’s published rating, not a claim that the pictures divide along it. Every picture is shown from the outlet’s own server and links to the article it ran in.

'Gays for Palestine? Send them there to negotiate': Trump mocks LGBTQ community
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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

1 rated outlet

  • The left-rated report from Joe.My.God. led on Donald Trump mocking LGBTQ activists in the pro-Palestinian movement. It quoted Trump saying, 'Gays for Palestine, how about that.' The report also noted that activists usually refer to themselves as 'Queers for Palestine.' It included a quote from Trump suggesting, 'Let’s send them over someday to negotiate. You’ll never see them again.'

Centre

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated centre has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Right

5 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports from Times of India, WIN, news-pravda.com, Bizpac Review, and American Wire News focused on Donald Trump mocking the 'Gays for Palestine' movement. Times of India quoted Trump asking, 'Do you know what they DO to gay people in that part of the world?!' and suggesting, 'Let's send them over someday to negotiate. Let's see. You'll never see them again!' WIN reported Trump joked that members should be sent to Gaza 'to negotiate.' News-pravda.com used the phrase 'sodomite activists' and quoted Trump saying, 'Let's send them there to negotiate somehow.' Bizpac Review and American Wire News stated Trump 'clowns' the movement with 'cold hard truth.'

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 17% are rated left, 0% are rated centre, 83% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 7. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine biased?
Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine is one event reported by 7 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Trump mocks LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine?
7 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Donald Trump say about LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine?
At a rally in Mobile, Alabama, Donald Trump mocked LGBTQ activists supporting Palestine. He referred to a movement as 'Gays for Palestine' and suggested sending them to negotiate in the Middle East, stating 'You will never see them again.'
How did the reports differ on the name of the activist group?
Joe.My.God. reported that activists typically call themselves 'Queers for Palestine.' WIN also referred to 'Queers for Palestine.' However, Times of India, news-pravda.com, Bizpac Review, and American Wire News used the term 'Gays for Palestine' or similar phrasing.
What was the main point of the right-rated reports?
The right-rated reports focused on Donald Trump mocking the 'Gays for Palestine' movement. They quoted his remarks about what happens to gay people in the Middle East and his suggestion to send them there to negotiate, with some using strong language to describe his comments.

Read it at the source

7 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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