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.
“Wokism must stop”
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, Sarah, in November. 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.
Trump promises 'largest deportation operation in US history'
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. On that day, he promised, “I will sign a 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 deportation operation in 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 asserted. “Any foreign gang member will be expelled and I will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,” thundered Donald Trump.
His foreign diplomacy
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 term, 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 tycoon, “we will demand that the Panama Canal be immediately returned to the United States.”
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