Joan rivers said obama was gay

We’re again debunking an old claim about the Obamas — this time, linked to another false claim about the late comedian Joan Rivers.

In footage from 2014, Rivers claimed that former President Barack Obama is gay and former first lady Michelle Obama is transgender. Case in point: the magnificent #JoanRivers." 

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

In 2018, a Pew survey asked people to say which president they believed had done “the best job during your lifetime.” Obama took first place, trailed by Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. She gained notoriety for starting one of the most widespread rumors about the Obama family, claiming to a street reporter that the White House had LGBTQ+ leadership.

He’s not like a big muscle guy.”

Obama remains popular in recent polls. The website links to a PDF showing a receipt from a Comfort Inn in Gurnee, Illinois, in 1999, and a PDF showing a limousine company business registration. My mind is androgynous to a great extent, and I hope to make it more so, until I can think of people, not women as opposed to men.

You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination. So, when they get picked up, they get “very big very fast.”

Soon, the claims devolved into conspiratorial Facebook videos with false captions such as “Obama chef ELIMINATED for knowing Obama’s gay secret!” and “Joan Rivers was sacrificed after she exposed Barack Obama being gay!!!”

There is no evidence supporting either claim.

Jenny Rice, associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital media at the University of Kentucky, said conspiracy theorists may have also found intrigue in the way the paragraph from Obama’s 1982 letter came to light.

In the world of conspiracy theories, Rice said, “things that are secret and hidden, become almost de facto proof that something very nefarious or evil is happening.”

Penney said, “In general, the pleasure of conspiracy theory is the sense of satisfaction or pleasure of knowing the real story is not the one that they’re telling you.”

Obama, the first and only Black president in U.S.

history, haslongbeen a magnet for conspiracy theories with racist roots, most notably regarding claims that his birth certificate is fake.

When the interviewer asked for clarification, Rivers said, "A transgender. In it, the biographer mentioned the redacted letter and its reference to homosexuality.

As news about the story spread across the conservative media ecosystem, Garrow said he received 20-plus media requests including from Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Lou Dobbs.

Online media networks are built to amplify stories like these, said Joel Penney, associate professor of communication at Montclair State University.

In 2014, Florida Department of Law Enforcement records show, he was arrested on a charge of larceny as an out-of-state fugitive.

Sinclair’s allegations have kept circulating. Photos and accounts from her memoir show that she is a cisgender woman. In 2011, Radar Online reported she'd once joked that the United States "used to have Jackie O, now we have Blackie O!" Rivers ultimately pulled the dodgy quip from her standup routine but she was more than happy to share it with shock jock Howard Stern.

As for the Obamas, this is not the first time this claim has circulated and been debunked. 6, Carlson fanned interest in Obama’s sexuality, releasing on X a new interview with Sinclair in which Sinclair repeated his allegations.

This narrative’s dominance online prompted us to explore this renewed speculation’s source and spread.

He’s a college professor. Her daughter, Melissa sued the doctors and clinic where the surgery took place for medical malpractice, saying doctors ignored warning signals that Rivers’ surgery had gone wrong. Moreover, taking a look at Rivers' history, this was far from the first time she'd publicly spoken about Michelle in an unflattering light.