At a meeting, the president-elect delivered a new diatribe against “wokism” and the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
Donald Trump announced on Sunday December 22 that he wanted to stop the “transgender delirium” on his first day in the White House next month, in a new salvo from the Republican camp against the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
As soon as he is inaugurated 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 the next American president.
“The official policy of the United States will be that there are only two genders, man and woman,” continued the winner of the November 5 presidential election to a crowd of young conservatives gathered in Phoenix, in the southwest of the country.
“Wokism must stop”
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” and righteousness.
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 .
“Wokism must stop,” the Republican said again to the applause of the crowd.
“Liberation Day”
Donald Trump, who will become the 47th president of the United States on January 20 after defeating Democrat Kamala Harris, also redoubled his attacks on Sunday in Phoenix on immigration, another favorite theme during his campaign.
That day, he promised, “I will sign a whole series of decrees to close our border to illegal immigrants and stop the invasion of our country. And on the same day, we will begin the largest expulsion operation of the history of the United States.”
“January 20 will truly be the day of liberation in America,” he said 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, the former and future president outlined his priorities for his next term, which he promises will be a “golden age”, and insisted on the speed with which he wants to put in place his reforms.
Without mentioning the long political negotiations which avoided a paralysis of the American federal government at the last minute on Saturday, he also repeated his priorities in terms of foreign policy.
“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 would do so. achieve.
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 does not change, thundered the former real estate tycoon, “we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States immediately.”
