Donald Trump announced on Sunday 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 LGBT + 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.
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 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 for the first transgender woman elected to the House in November, Sarah McBride.
“Wokism must stop,” the Republican said again to the applause of the crowd.
The term “wokism”, borrowed from African-American struggles, is misused by political figures and conservative movements to denounce what they consider to be an excess of activism with regard to the demands of minorities and social and climatic injustices.
“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.”
The president-elect denounced the arrival of illegal migrants from the southern border of the United States, claiming to have spoken to the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum. “I said: you can’t do this to our country.”
“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.
“Any foreign gang member will be expelled and I will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,” thundered Mr. 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 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 magnate, “we will demand that the Panama Canal be immediately returned to the United States.”
