Trapt Takes Another Turn As Twitter's Main Character After Saying 25-Year-Old Women Who Have Sex With 15-Year-Old Boys Is 'Not Pedophilia'

One-hit-wonder jock-jammers Trapt have had themselves a pretty embarrassing 2020. In March of 2020, lead singer Chris Taylor Brown had a memorable meltdown in which he spent days sniping at seemingly everyone who was criticizing Donald Trump and his own band. Later in the year, the band performed at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic which may be one of the reasons the Dakotas have the worst COVID numbers in the world. Now, the band is wrapping up the year by arguing about how some forms of pedophilia are worse than others.

It all started when Twitter user @illtemperedcape, host of the small "Ill Tempered Podcast," posted a segment in which he roasted the group for their 2020 musical and social media output.

Here’s a snippet of the segment I did about TRAPTOFFICIAL</a>⁩ on this weeks episode of ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/illtemperedpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">illtemperedpod⁩ Enjoy and check out the full episode to hear the rest #Trapt #ChrisTaylorBrown pic.twitter.com/WJbnowwIzN

— 𝕮𝖆𝖕𝖊 (@illtemperedCape) December 6, 2020

This attracted Brown, who would simply not stop posting, firing back at the podcast and every critic in the ensuing thread until he somehow ended up saying he would "give high-fives" to a 15-year-old boy who had sex with a 24-year-old teacher.

Oh I would be giving the kid high fives! Only if the teacher was hot though… So much worse when a grown man does that with a 14 year old girl. They get much tougher prison sentences, so society agrees with me.

— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) December 6, 2020

This set off yet another remarkably persistent tweetstorm where he argued against all critics about how this specific instance of illegal sex with a minor isn't as bad as other instances of sex with a minor.

I don’t call a 24 year old woman who takes advantage of a 15 year old boy who is entirely through puberty a pedophile…

— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) December 6, 2020

You are an idiot. I never said anything like that. I said I wouldn’t care if a 15 year old boy banged his 25 year old teacher. That’s it…

— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) December 7, 2020

A 15 year male and a 25 year old female is not pedophilia, you fucking moron🤦🏻‍♂️

— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) December 7, 2020

There are dozens of tweets in this vein. The piece de resistance of Brown's big day came when he argued that by liberal snowflake logic, Brigitte Macron, the First Lady of France, is a pedophile because she met her husband, Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, when he was her student.

All you people are saying that an older woman who is attracted to a 15 year old is a pedophile, so you are calling Macron’s wife a pedophile

— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) December 7, 2020

Meanwhile, Twitter user @hetherrfortune has been sacrificing their blue checkmark with an expert Trapt impersonation.

All you people are saying that an older woman who is attracted to a 15 year old is a pedophile, so you are calling My wife a pedophile

— TRAPT (@hetherrfortune) December 7, 2020

Lol there’s rarely been a more totally successful bit than @hetherrfortune’s today pic.twitter.com/luO7TWd5S5

— shrekman (@punishedblart) December 7, 2020

Thanks for the memories in 2020, Trapt. May you never stop posting dumb Twitter gold.