Lesbian Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, who made headlines in 2021 after ridiculously claiming Democrats are creating human-animal hybrids using government funding, has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State.
You likely aren’t familiar with Bruce, unless you spend your time scrolling Truth Social (Trump’s rotted social media site) or tuning into conservative media outlets.
The 62-year-old has been a contributor at Fox since 2019. She has been known to go on inane rants against corporate Pride advertisements, any form of pronouns, and…gingerbread. Yes, in 2018, Bruce criticized a bakery for calling their cookies “gingerbread people” instead of “gingerbread men” because that’s journalism.
On a Fox & Friends segment in 2021, she told co-host Pete Hegseth (aka Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense) that she regretted taking the COVID-19 vaccine and wished she could “give [it] back.” And, lest we forget, she claimed Democrats are attempting to produce mutants “from hell.” Her explanation was interesting, to say the least.
“Chimeric research is Pandora’s box, that’s obviously from hell, that should not be opened,” Bruce said. “But the scientific community, spurred on by their own hubris, may very well open it, using American taxpayer dollars.”
In his Truth Social post, Trump called Bruce “a highly respected political analyst,” which we will leave open to your interpretation. Bruce, however, was not always “highly respected” in the right-wing world.
In the early 1990s, she served as the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and was a member of NOW’s national board. She was denounced and censored by the organization over comments made in the wake of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal in 1995. Bruce officially resigned in 1996.
Following her removal, she went off the right-wing deep end, defending an anti-gay media personality and publishing a book about the “left’s assault on free speech and free minds.” Trump acknowledged her past as a “liberal activist” in his nomination announcement.
“[Bruce] saw the lies and fraud of the Radical Left, and quickly became one of the strongest Conservative voices on Radio and Television,” he wrote.
Her role in the State Department does not require Senate confirmation. As the spokesperson, Bruce will communicate U.S. foreign policy objectives to the public.
