Clay Aiken praises Trump administration over global LGBTQ initiative

Former “American Idol” star and one-time North Carolina congressional candidate Clay Aiken is praising the Trump administration’s new effort to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of countries around the world.

Aiken told Hill.TV’s “Rising” that President Trump’s recently announced global push signals a step in the right direction, saying those on the left and in the LGBTQ community should be “thankful” and “happy” about the new campaign.

“This movement to try to decriminalize homosexuality around the world is overdue,” Aiken told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton.

“Previous administrations have done some work for it, but for the administration to make an active point of trying to at least bring attention to it … is something that people in the LGBTQ community, people on the left side of the aisle should be thankful for and be happy about,” he continued.

Aiken added that just because he disagrees with the administration doesn’t mean he’s going to “shout and argue that what they’re doing in this one instance is something that we should be critical of.”

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