Trump speaks at a rally in Texas on January 29, 2022
Donald Trump has waded into the growing debate surrounding transgender athletes in the United States while speaking at a 'Save America' rally in Texas, vowing that they will no longer be permitted to compete against biologically-born women when the Republican Party wrestles back control from their Democrat counterparts.
Trump, who stopped short of committing to a presidential run in 2024, gave a lengthy 80-minute speech to the assembled masses in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday night where he touched on a range of issues from illegal immigration to the possibility of pardons for those convicted in relation to the January 6 2021 riots at the US Capitol.
But it was the issue of transgender rights, and the fairness of them competing against naturally-born women in athletic competition, which appeared to be one of the central tenets of Trump's polemic.
Trans rights has been a political battleground between the contrasting philosophies within the US political sphere. More and more figures within sport have begun speaking out against the efficacy of having trans athletes competing alongside cisgender women, with stories from the worlds of weightlifting, swimming another others drawing global attention in recent months.
But as far as Trump is concerned, this is exactly where the Republican party should draw the line.
"We will ban men from participating in women's sports. So ridiculous," Trump said.
"Did you see the man that was on a swimming team at a certain school that I know very well? The record held for like 11 years, he beat it by 38 seconds.
"But the best is the weightlifting records - they're going. One guy walks in with one hand... he broke the record that held up for 20 years. For 20 years they're putting a little half an ounce on each side of the weights and the women are working so hard.
"Take a look at the weightlifting records. Two ounces in unacceptable, they beat 'em by many, many, many, many, many, many pounds."
Whether designed to or not, Trump's comments will enflame tensions between a chasm of opinion in the United States (and likely beyond) in which the terms 'woke' and 'cancel culture' have become implements of political branding.
The 45th US president suggested that issues such as these should be central to Republicans' thoughts as they navigate the upcoming midterm elections later this year, as well as the drive to reassume Republican control of the presidency in two years.
"We're taking back America and in 2024 we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful house that happens to be white, that is so magnificent and that we all love. We are going to take back the White House," he promised.
Reader Comments
So vote for Him when the time comes because he Tried so Hard to Stop the Most Obvious Fake Election in the History of the Universe, don't you know... and certainly he wasn't told how it was gonna go down beforehand.
Have a wonderful day!
"Society is being atomized so that it can be rebuilt on an entirely novel basis. They want to split you from your family, friends and lovers, then traumatize you down to a babbling helplessness, so that you can be brainwashed and transformed into a vanilla, spiritless, and unquestioning citizen of the future
These people have envisioned a boy-in-a-bubble future for you, a Logan's Run dystopia without the sexy costumes where you can be conditioned to live on concrete slabs, eat chemical squares, and work for them 12 hours a day for room and board. You will do this while thinking you have advanced into a better future, like in Star Trek. You will walk through the chute thinking to meet some scantily clad alien or charismatic soldier like Kirk, but you will only meet the pit and the pendulum
So you and the girls at UPenn had better drum yourselves awake somehow, by swimming in colder water or by some other method, and soon. Your only hope is to quit immediately, refusing to walk through that chute or enter that future. Climb out of the pool and join the truckers as they surround all Capitols and castles."
Inverted celebs giving relevance to the agenda by deception...
WOW....who struggles to see that nowadays...
Reminds me of Tommy Robinson being interviewed by a trans-male to some how offer some credence to Tommy not being a Female-to-male/FTM trans actor/political deployment as a right wing pied piper, only a few people are still blind to the "double bluff".
If Donald Trump didn't look like a fat old lesbian or its other half like a man in drag who had rhinoplasty etc then it would be funny....
Trump knows what he's doing, he's not on the side of your average heterosexual, no, he's lording his sick agenda and he is not to be trusted.
Of all that's happening globally, Trump shows that his attentions are were there needed, NOT.
Yep. Again. When the elections didn't go his way, he called for a huge rally in Washington, D.C. Jan. 6, 2020. (Yes, I do believe the elections were corrupt. Yes, I wanted Congress to approve alternate electoral slates.)
Why does Trump use his supporters like his personal staff? Why should anyone protest against decisions corrupt prosecutors make in his cases? He's got money out the wazoo. He should be protected by his money, power, and Goldman-Sachs. Why is he calling on his supporters to...once again...take to the streets? Where Feds in Trump drag and "well-disguised" bloc-black Antifa shouting Communist slogans wait to incite crowds through barriers, fences, and doors smashing windows and door with helmets, poles, etc.?
Dejà vu all over again.
By the way, why there are no transgender "athletes" at rhythmic gymnastics competitions ?!?