{"id":2989,"date":"2026-06-05T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/05\/rep-andy-ogles-tweets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:36:00","slug":"rep-andy-ogles-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/05\/rep-andy-ogles-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Andy Ogles Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is the first week of Pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An already controversial Tennessee Congressman opted to use the second day to get deeply homophobic.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomosexuality has no place in America,\u201d he declared on social media.<\/p>\n

The bigoted remark drew wide condemnation, including from fellow conservatives. He\u2019s walking it back \u2014 but not actually apologizing.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) walks through the U.S. Capitol on February 03, 2026. (Photo Credit: Heather Diehl\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Happy nuclear family month\u2019<\/h2>\n

On Tuesday, June 2, Congressman Andy Ogles marked the second day of Pride with a deeply homophobic tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomosexuality has no place in America,\u201d the Republican member of Congress from Tennessee tweeted.<\/p>\n

He compounded his error by writing: \u201cHappy nuclear family month.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tweet has since been deleted, and ignited a firestorm of backlash \u2014 including from within his own party.<\/p>\n

Simply put, he announced that millions of Americans have no place existing in America. <\/p>\n

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Congressman Andy Ogles would later claim that this homophobic tweet was the work of an unnamed staffer. (Image Credit: Twitter)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the outside, the tweet looks like a shocking but not surprising fit with the rest of his social media activity.<\/p>\n

Most of his tweets seem to concern deporting not-white citizens in support of the Trump regime\u2019s white supremacist agenda, particularly targeting immigrants from Somalia and a few other select nations.<\/p>\n

Ogler\u2019s fellow Republicans seek to draw a line between outright bigotry and supposed \u201cnational security\u201d concerns.<\/p>\n

A baffled Senator Ted Cruz, a staunch conservative, told TMZ<\/a> <\/em>that for \u201call of recorded history, homosexuals have been part of humanity. \u2026 I think the behavior of consenting adults is their business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representative Mike Lawler commented: \u201cWhat an absolutely idiotic statement to make\u201d about Ogler\u2019s tweet, calling his colleague a \u201cf\u2013king idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIdiotic and offensive\u201d Rep Mike Lawler (R-NY) on homophobic social media post by account of his colleague Rep Andy Ogles (R-TN)<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social<\/a>) June 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018The employee has been reprimanded\u2019<\/h2>\n

For whatever it\u2019s worth, even Ogles is walking back the statement \u2014 claiming that he didn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier today while working on the farm, my phone began going crazy because of a post made by a member of my comms team,\u201d he began a later tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe post was stupid, hurtful, and a complete distraction from my America First focus,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

Ogles then claimed: \u201cThe employee has been reprimanded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, that isn\u2019t actually an apology. He merely describes the tweet\u2019s impact, and throws an unnamed staffer under the bus.<\/p>\n

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Notably, this tweet by Andy Ogles is not an apology and does not appear to take any responsibility for the previous, bigoted tweet. (Image Credit: Twitter)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Judging by the replies, even the remaining denizens of what was once Twitter do not seem to believe Ogles\u2019 story.<\/p>\n

It is very common for members of congress to claim that controversial social media activity was done by someone else.<\/p>\n

For example, Senator Cruz\u2019 Twitter account famously \u201cliked\u201d an incest porn clip on 9\/11. Famously, he claimed that a staffer was responsible. <\/p>\n

Hey, it\u2019s possible. Just because no one seems to believe it doesn\u2019t mean that it couldn\u2019t conceivably be true, right?<\/p>\n

By all accounts, Ogles \u2014 or his unnamed staffer, who may or may not exist \u2014 hoped that last year\u2019s conservative backlash against progress and decency was still going strong this year. It is, but not as much. <\/p>\n

Calling for the eradication of millions of Americans still gets condemned within the GOP if many of those Americans might be cis and white.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: 3 minutes It is the first week of Pride. An already controversial Tennessee Congressman opted to use the second day to get deeply homophobic. \u201cHomosexuality has no place in America,\u201d he declared on social media. The bigoted remark drew wide condemnation, including from fellow conservatives. He\u2019s walking it back \u2014 but not actually apologizing. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) walks through the U.S. Capitol on February 03, 2026. (Photo Credit: Heather Diehl\/Getty Images) \u2018Happy nuclear family month\u2019 On Tuesday, June 2, Congressman Andy Ogles marked the second day of Pride with a deeply homophobic tweet. \u201cHomosexuality has no place in America,\u201d the Republican member of Congress from Tennessee tweeted. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1780,2,1257,28,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andy-ogles","category-hollywood","category-lgbtq","category-news","category-politics","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}