During a conference call on the White House’s Iran policy, a reporter claims she heard an unmuted caller say, “My inflatable doll is a lesbian.”
The comment was first caught by CBS News White House reporter Jackie Alemany and was partially confirmed by BBC News reporter Tara McKelvey, who tweeted she thought that it came from an ad. After McKelvey heard the words “my inflatable doll” and “a lesbian,” she said a senior administration official decided to cut the conference call short.
“Just pull the cord,” he allegedly told fellow officials. The Daily Dot has reached out to the White House for comment.
https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/887144137459421185
During the briefing call on Iran, you could hear an ad in the background: a man seemed to be saying “inflatable dolls” and “a lesbian.”
— Tara McKelvey (@Tara_Mckelvey) July 18, 2017
Overheard just now on a conference call where nobody knew how to mute their phones: “My inflatable doll is a lesbian!”
— Sara Cook (@saraecook) July 17, 2017
Reporters are still shocked. And Twitter users are finding the comment bizarre, hilarious, and not totally unexpected from the Trump administration.
https://twitter.com/angelcolberg/status/887159051879989248
It’s sad because this is 100% believable and probably is true.
— Ol’Gill (@GillyBalls) July 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/NotMattBellamy/status/887162690875142144
It’s a really sad state of affairs when this tweet is probably satire but at the same time is entirely believable. :(
— Louise (@UncannyVal) July 18, 2017
Whether it was an ad or not, Jokey Twitter ran with the idea that an official said it and began wondering who would call their blow-up doll a lesbian.
There’s a theory that this was @VP Pence, complaining (or rejoicing) that his new blow-up doll is lesbian.
— John Daws 🇺🇸🇪🇸🏳️🌈🇲🇽 (@grajillas) July 18, 2017
So is Dump watching a porn channel when he’s supposed to be listening to the briefing?
— Betony Burnett (@BurnettBetony) July 18, 2017
After the phone is hung up
— Kiwi_CGFX (@Kiwi_CGFX) July 18, 2017
“Donald, if you must spend “time” with latex Sally turn off the damn intercom!
Sure, awkward moments tend to happen during conference calls. But as one Twitter user pointed out, lesbian blow-up dolls rarely seem to come up in most professional work environments—even when autoplay ads strike.
Seriously? Was this a State Department conference call? Interesting, my Conference Call Bingo Card doesn’t have an inflatable doll square. pic.twitter.com/XDgy6VRp5z
— Kirsten Allison (@KirstenAllison) July 18, 2017
