Is it true that Mel Gibson urged “as soon as possible” to ban LGBT and BLM symbols in American schools?

In Runet, after the presidential elections in the United States, messages diverged that Donald Trump asked his supporters whether it was worth removing the rainbow flags and the Black Lives Matter logo. The actor and director Mel Gibson allegedly agreed with this. We checked the reliability of such posts.

On November 5, 2024, presidential elections were held in the United States, the victory on which won Candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump. On November 9, in the Russian -language segment of the network, publications about the alleged tweet of the policy and comments, which the actor Mel Gibson left under the post, were encouraged. Telegram channel Voblya (139,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) presented the news as follows: “Trump in the social network X conducted a survey, whether in American schools the symbolism of LGBT and the BLM movement. "Do you agree that the flags BLM And Pride should be prohibited in classes? " - wrote an account of the elected president. The first post was commented by the actor Mel Gibson, who stated that this needs to be done" as soon as possible "."

According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis of Telegram, at least 360 similar Russian -speaking posts appeared in the amount of about 3 million views. The channels were written about the commentary of Gibson to the alleged Tvit Trump.Uncle Glory"(174,000 views),"Release Kraken Z!"(148 000),"Belarusian security officer"(139 000),"Veronika Stepanova"(138 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(126 000),"Politics of the country"(104 000), Gura Anton (87,000) and "Tsargrad-TV"(67 000). Notes on this topic appeared on the sites "Reginum" Eadaily, News.ru, "Rambler News","Tomorrow.ru" And "Public television of Russia". On VKontakte about Gibson's consent with the proposal of Trump was written by a writer Zakhar Prilepin (7200 views), as well as public "TV channel "Tsargrad""(35,000), Life.ru (34,000), "Russian Spring (rusvesna.su)"(5300),"Newspaper "Tomorrow""(3200) and others. This news is found in"Zen".

In 2011, in an interview with Deadline Gibson declaredthat he "quietly supports the candidates" in the elections and "does not knock for them in drums." Before the presidential Election of 2016in whom Trump's rival from the Democratic Party was Hillary Clinton, actor toldthat will not vote at all, since none of the candidates suited him. In particular, he criticized the initiative of the Republican to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico. At the end of 2020, when Trump lost Joe Biden, in an interview with Fox News Artist notedthat none of the parties are publicly supported - his conscious choice. “Who the hell is worried, what I think? I'm not an expert - what can I talk about? " - said Gibson then. However, in the summer of 2021 on the network Hanged Video on which capturedHow he gives the honor of Trump at the mixed martial arts tournament, and in 2023- photoon which the actor communicates with a politician during a similar event. Before the elections of 2024, in a video published by a tabloid TMZGibson openly supported Republican candidate. In the video, the actor said: "I do not think that someone will surprise someone, for whom I vote." When the author of the video mentioned Trump, the artist replied: "I think this is a pretty good assumption." And then he added: “I know what will happen if we choose it (apparently, Kamalu Harris. - Approx. Ed.). And this is not good. A miserable track record. No policy that could be discussed. She has an IQ like a pillar. ” Trump himself in his social networks earlier called Gibson is great.

Earlier, the actor has gained a participant in homophobic and racist scandals. For example, in 1991, he made derogatory Comments About the LGBT community in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, which caused criticism of the artist. Later Gibson Refused apologize and added that his words could incorrectly interpret when translated. In 1995, the alliance of gays and lesbians against Diffamation (GLAAD) accused a filmmaker in homophobia for his film "Brave", but Gibson himself such accusations rejected. Nevertheless, already in 1996 GLAAD announcedWhat will hold a joint event with him: ten homosexuals starting their career in the film industry will visit the set of Gibson’s new film “The Cloten Theory” and will be able to observe the work of more experienced colleagues. In addition, actress Vainon Ryder repeatedly told About anti -Semitic and homophobic statements of the actor. According to her, once at a party, she talked with a drunken Gibson, who asked her friend-Gei whether he would infect him with AIDS, and when it came to Jews, he called the actress a "dioxide from the furnace."

As for viral messages that Gibson allegedly supported Trump's idea to ban LGBT and BLM flags in American schools, then in some such publications (for example, on the website of the Russian Public Television channel) as a source) indicated The page of the artist @melgibsonfilms on the social network X. However, in the description of this profile and in the fixed message It is saidthat he is in no way connected with the actor: “Please read the bio. I am not Mel, this is a fan page dedicated to him. Mel is not in any social network. There are no official pages. They are all fan or false. ” In 2023, analyzing the same news (just not about the support of Trump's alleged idea, but about the commentary on the war in the Middle East), the Associated Press Agency also reportedthat Gibson has no public accounts in any social networks.

At the same time, most viral posts contain a screenshot of two tweets, which the actor and politician allegedly published on November 8. The lower part shows tweet Account With the nickname Mel Gibson 🇺🇸 News and the userneum @melgnews. This profile was registered in October 2024 (the first post appeared on October 29), as of November 14, more than 37,000 users were signed for it. Page description says: “I subscribe to all patriots! Click on the bell to be sure that you get the latest news daily! No affiliation. " Moreover, all tweets of this account are somehow related to profile Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 News (@donaldtnews), whose post occupies most of the screenshot. This page appeared In May 2023, more than 1 million accounts were signed on it, and she has the same description as MEL Gibson 🇺🇸 News. Verified Account Trump (@realdonaldtrump) was registered in X (then - Twitter) back in March 2009, and now more than 94 million users have been signed for politics.

Moreover, in some of the posts mentioned at the beginning of the analysis, it is stated that this fake account of Gibson was the first to Commented recording of the fake page of Trump (November 8 in 16:39:58 Moscow time). But even this turned out to be untruthful - "verified" the referman found others usersthat were left earlier (for example, in 16:39:23 And 16:39:51).

Thus, Mel Gibson did not urge the flags and symbols of LGBT and BLM in American schools as soon as possible. In fact, this was written by the fake account of the actor in X in response to the post of fake profile of Donald Trump.

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