Donald Trump Jr. railed about “woke ideology” as he described a “satanic” parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that featured drag queens at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday.
The former president’s son who claimed his mother Ivana Trump was an Olympian despite being the Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee cannot find such a recordsaid he was excited about the games as a kid.
“Now with the always predictable (and to me seemingly satanic) drag queen opening ceremonies and the never ending bs, no one I know even thinks about it, except maybe watching some highlights,” He wrote.
“It is such a shame that an event that used to create so much national pride now creates indifference at best. Using the games to promote woke ideology has nothing to do with what the games stand for.”
Trump added that the moment was a “real disservice” to a group of “the most talented and dedicated people on the planet.”
Thomas Jolly, the ceremony’s artistic director, told reporters on Saturday that he was unaware of the criticism surrounding the production and that his goal was to “involve everyone.”
“We didn’t mean to be subversive. We never wanted to be subversive. We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together,” says Jolly, according to NBC News.
He later continued: “In France we are a republic, we have the right to love who we want, we have the right not to be worshipers, we have many rights in France, and this is what I wanted to convey.”