Trump, Orlando, and Muslim immigration

Trump reiterates call to keep out Muslims in speech

This was going to be the Corrupt Hillary speech.

He scrapped that for a topical speech about Islam, Jihad, gay and women's rights, and Muslim immigration.

He will probably lurch ahead of her in polls for a while, because of this.

"We have to screen applicants to know whether they are affiliated with or supporting radical groups and beliefs," Trump said. 

"We have to control the amount of future immigration in this country and we have to prevent large pockets of radicalization from forming inside America."

The presumptive Republican presidential nomatinee accused Clinton, his likely Democratic challenger, of espousing policies that will lead to "more radical Islamic immigration into this country."

"She wants to take away Americans' guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us," Trump said.

The real estate mogul scrapped a long-planned speech Monday on the scandal-plagued past of Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, instead addressing terrorism, immigration and other related policies after 49 people perished at a mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub on Sunday.

"This is a very dark moment in America's history. A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub not only because he wanted to kill Americans but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual orientation," Trump said.

Trump said the attack was an "assault on the ability of free people to live their lives, love who they want and express their identity."

Trump also claimed that the gunman's parents expressed support for the Taliban and said the U.S. needs to better screen immigrants coming into the U.S.

Trump again expressed his support for his proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

"Remember this, Radical Islam is anti-woman anti gay and anti American," Trump said. "This is not just a national security issue, it's a quality of life issue."

Throughout his speech, Trump repeatedly made appeals to the LGBT community and accused Clinton of simply giving lip service to protecting a community that Trump argued would be damaged by the former secretary of state's calls to allow more Syrian refugees into the U.S.

"She can't have it both ways. She can't claim to be supportive of these communities while trying to increase the number of people coming in who want to oppress these same communities," Trump said.

Trump suggested that he was in fact the "real friend" of the LGBT community.

They are really pushing this.

After the Pulse Club Massacre, It’s Time for Gays to Come Home to Republican Party

If the Republicans dump the culturally reactionary sexual politics of the Christian right and embrace the sexual revolution, at least in part, a very large and influential slice of our cultural elites (think Hollywood but well beyond Hollywood) who have all along prioritized social liberalism, anyway, could flip.