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During a campaign stop at Knockout Barber in the Bronx on Thursday, former president Donald Trump called transgender children a “threat to democracy” during rambling comments about education, the economy, and the Southern border. The footage, which aired on Fox News Monday, has swiftly gone viral.
When asked to talk about how to improve school systems in the Bronx, Trump instead began to speak about a pet issue of his, which is also part of the Project 2025 agenda: demolishing the Department of Education. (Don’t worry, he brought it back to trans kids.)
“I want one person and a secretary to just make sure they’re teaching English,” he said of his intentions for the Department of Education. “Reading, writing and arithmetic. No transgender, no operations. You know, they take your kid. There are some places, your boy leaves for school, comes back a girl. Without parental consent. What’s that about?”
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Finally, he pivoted to a favorite couplet: “They talk about a threat to democracy? They’re a threat to democracy.” It was unclear — and, of course, no one asked Trump a follow-up question — whether Trump was saying that trans kids, public schools, Democrats, or the Department of Education were the real threats to democracy.
Despite the fact that his false claim of “sex changes” taking place in schools has been repeatedly debunked, Trump went on to insist that was “actually happening,” which, again, is a blatant lie.
