A dating site for Trump supporters used a sex offender as its model. It has a few other issues, too.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump.Dating is an odd site, and not just because it featured a convicted sex offender’s smiling face on its homepage. More on that shortly.

It’s strange in nearly every way a dating site could be strange. Its all-caps slogan — “MAKE DATING GREAT AGAIN! FIND YOUR PRO-TRUMP MATCH TODAY” — may be the least weird thing about it.

The site’s premise, at least, makes some sense: “like-minded people have a far better chance at success in a relationship,” as a news release announcing the site’s launch put it this month. “Users can rest assured every person they are talking to is behind the president, with red, white, and blue blood that flows for America each and every day.”

Nothing wrong with that. Who wants to have a border wall argument over wine? But Trump.Dating’s peculiarities begin to surface with the first mouse click and never quite stop.

The common denominator among the site’s users is supposed to be that they, unlike most opinion poll respondents, support President Trump. But try to register, and the first thing you’re asked is whether you’re a “Straight Man” or “Straight Woman.” Gay people (let alone bisexual, transgender or queer) simply don’t exist in the menus.

While Trump is certainly loathed by many gay rights supporters, mainly for policies rolling back freedoms and protections of transgender people, he definitely has gay fans. He has even embraced them on occasion — giving a shout out to the “LGBTQ community” in his Republican National Convention speech, for example.

But being gay is simply not an option on Trump.Dating, which is not the only conservative matchmaking site to exclude people who aren’t straight. You’re either a man seeking women or a woman seeking men.

You can, however, specify a romantic interest in “military men/women” regardless of your gender. So Trump.Dating appears to tolerate a very specific form of bi-curiosity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2018/02/20/a-trump-dating-site-used-a-sex-offender-as-its-model-and-it-has-a-few-other-issues-too/?utm_term=.82ffccefe8e3&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[Hoyt]

1. Quite fitting. If you profess your racism, bigotry, hatred, greed, etc., you might get a date.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. No, there's no one doing the Trumpian move of being their own spokesman, honestly

Trump.Dating’s spokesman, as mentioned above, gave his name as Sean McGrossler. A Feb. 5 launch announcement on the Daily Caller originally listed the site’s founder and owner as Sean McGrossier, with an “i,” though it was sometimes spelled as McGrossler in the same advertisement.

McGrossler (the site’s spokesman) did not immediately respond to questions from The Washington Post about whether he is also McGrossier/McGrossler (the site’s owner), and, if so, which spelling of his name is correct.

For some reason, Sean McGrossler’s byline on the Daily Caller is tagged as “ariddleberger” — the last name of the former model convicted of a sex crime, whom Sean McGrossler (the spokesman and possibly also the owner) said no longer represented Trump.Dating.

McGrossler/McGrossier did not respond to questions about whether Riddleberger is involved in running the site. Riddleberger couldn’t be reached, either.