I wanted to ask you about President Trump’s
attitudes to the LGBTQ community.
You write in your book about sitting with
your grandma, your “Gam,” as you called her,
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
It was the funeral, memorial 
service for Princess Diana.
What did she refer to Elton John as?
She called him the F-word, for the slur for
a gay man.
So, you were planning at that time to come
out to your family, at least to your grandmother.
You made a big decision then not to do that,
right?
And as we wrap up, I was wondering if you
can talk about whether you feel that attitude,
that anti-LGBTQ sentiment, was transferred
to President Trump, and what you are most
concerned about with him.
Yeah.
I mean, interestingly, homophobia was not
something I grew up with, simply because,
homosexuality wasn’t discussed, really.
But it wasn’t surprising to me.
I mean, I wasn’t happy about it, certainly,
that my grandmother had those attitudes, but
it didn’t exactly surprise me in a household
that was so racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic.
So, you know, by extension, Donald’s attitudes
towards the gay community aren’t surprising.
But he’s done so much damage in the last
three-and-a-half years, starting with the
ban on transgender troops, that I’m afraid
is
going to take a very, very long time 
for us to regain the ground we’ve lost.
