Donald Trump announced this Sunday, December 22, that he wanted to stop the “ transgender delusion » from his first day at the White House next month, in a new salvo from the Republican camp against the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. The president-elect was the guest of Turning Point America, an ultra-conservative organization which notably defends the values of the Republican Party on American campuses. The opportunity for the president-elect to once again list his promises for the next 4 years.
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From the inauguration on January 20, “ I will sign decrees to put an end to sexual mutilation of children, exclude transgender people from the army and exclude them from primary, middle and high schools », insisted President-elect Donald Trump.
“ The official policy of UNITED STATES will be that there are only two genders, man and woman “, continued the winner of the November 5 presidential election in front of a crowd of young conservatives gathered in Phoenix, in the southwest of the country. Medical treatments for minors to change their gender or transgender women’s access to women’s sports competitions are hot topics in a polarized United States.
During the electoral campaign, the Republican billionaire brandished the scarecrow of what the conservative camp sees as the diktat of “wokism”. Republicans oppose LGBT+ rights in the states they control and, in the US Congress, right-wing elected officials wanted to block access to the women’s toilets in the Capitol in November for the first transgender woman elected to the House, Sarah McBride .
Immigration in the viewfinder
THE ” wokism must stop », Said the Republican again to the applause of the crowd. Donald Trumpwho on January 20 will become the 47th president of the United States after defeating Democrat Kamala Harris, also redoubled his attacks on Sunday in Phoenix on immigration, another strong theme of his electoral campaign. That day, he promised, “ I will sign a series of executive orders to close our border to illegal immigrants and stop the invasion of our country. And on the same day, we will begin the largest deportation operation in American history. »
“ January 20 will truly be Liberation Day in America “, he asserted during this event organized by Turning Point USA, an organization founded by far-right polemicist Charlie Kirk, support of Donald Trump.
In his speech lasting more than an hour – in the style of his campaign meetings – the former and future president linked his priorities for his next mandate, which he promises as a ” golden age », and insisted on the speed with which he wants to implement his reforms.
Without mentioning the political negotiations which avoided in extremis On Saturday, a paralysis of the American federal government, he repeated his foreign policy priorities. “ I will end the war in Ukraine, I will stop the chaos in the Middle East and I will prevent, I promise, World War III “, declared Donald Trump, without giving details on how he achieved this.
Trump on the Panama Canal… and Musk’s influence…
He also reiterated his threats from the day before regarding the Panama Canal, accusing the Panamanian authorities who have controlled it entirely since 1999 of not treating American ships ” fairly “. If this doesn’t change, ” we will demand that the Panama Canal be immediately returned to the United States “, he concluded.
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