Washington D.C., Feb 22, 2025 / 17:39 pm (CNA).
U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated an end to what he called “transgender insanity” during his Feb. 22 speech to the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference.
Thousands of conservatives gathered for the annual three-day conference, which was largely themed around Trump and his wide-ranging agenda. Many speakers, including Trump, took a celebratory approach to his 2024 comeback victory and the electoral “mandate” Trump received to govern according to his campaign agenda.
“It’s all out now — critical race theory and transgender insanity,” Trump declared, referring to his executive actions to curtail gender ideology in public life.
“It’s all gone from our schools and from our military and I believe it’s gone too,” the president said. “…I believe that it’s all gone.”
Since taking office, Trump has banned biological men from women’s sports in K-12 and college athletics, prohibited transgender surgeries on children, halted schools from facilitating social gender transitions for children, and ended transgender-related anti-discrimination mandates imposed by former President Joe Biden’s administration on private entities.
“I made it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said. “That was easy.”
The president recounted his various executive actions on gender ideology and said, “Can you imagine making a speech like this 10 years ago?”
“People would say what the hell is he talking about, right?” Trump said. “This is a sickness that came with critical race theory and all of the other things we had to put up with.”
During his speech, Trump also criticized Gov. Janet Mills of Maine, who helped lead a lawsuit against Trump’s ban on biological men in women’s sports in K-12 and college athletics.
“She’s fighting to keep men in women’s sports,” Trump said. “You ever see what happens to a woman when a woman boxes with a man who transitioned to womanhood? Did you ever see what happens? It’s not pretty.”
The country’s 47th president claimed opposition to biological men in women’s sports is “like a 90-10 issue and I can’t figure out who the 10% are — nobody can.”
Trump also celebrated the release of 23 pro-life activists who he pardoned within his first week in office. Trump said the activists, many of whom received years in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, were “political prisoners.”
During the annual conference, many speakers promoted Trump’s policy agenda on various issues, including gender ideology, school choice, immigration, and the economy.
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It is refreshing to have public figures who don’t pander to deranged notions. We’ve had too many years of the public acquiescing to nonsense while seemingly sensible people holding rational views stood by, watched and kept silent. For shame. No more nuttiness…please.
Diaconus. I may have misread the gist of your comment. I have contacted several of my GOP senators to ask WHY my congress remains silent to Trump’s evil “nuttiness” showing their spinless and cowardly silence. Their responses are consistent. They still kiss the ring of their Monarch.
When will the church ever get real? 15 times Trump’s abortion position shifted over the past 25 years. Since his humungous number of executive orders have caused utter havoc that continues to permeate throughout the nation, His vial autocratic mantra looms more prominent.
At the recent annual CPAC convention Trump ranted that he won the 2024 election with a voter mandate. He called the election “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” That is false. His votes were less than 50%.
Reuters: Throughout his lengthy career in the public eye and politics going back 25 years, Trump has found himself on every side of the contentious debate, at times shifting stances seemingly to match the politics of the voters he is trying to win over.
Forbes: President Donald Trump told 30,573 false or misleading statements over 4 years. Based on this number, he is clearly a prolific liar. That disgrace is infecting the minds of our impressionable children.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarkowitz/2021/04/30/who-lied-more-during-their-first-100-days-biden-trump-or-obama/
Trump has made his case. You can’t trust him. His “slash and burn” orders have threatened citizens and our republic causing a constitutional crisis and upsetting world order.
He said, “Ukraine was responsible for the war.” “Putin is a brilliant man.” He was recently asked “If Ukraine gives Putin the Donbas what will he give in return? He was silent. Nothing?
The US legal system is woefully unable to handle Trump. No accountability. Violation of many gag orders. Having the case of the sensitive document thrown out by his appointed Judge Cannon on a technicality. Threats to those he considers the “enemy”. Don Jr. bloviated “You better watch out or we will be in your backyard.”
Trump pardoned the criminal Capitol invaders who seriously injured Capitol Police. That act sealed his responsibility for the incitement of the seat of Democracy.
I agree that men should not participate in women’s sports, but how does his transgender “edict” improve the lives of those challenged souls and their parents?
The Jan 6 pardons gave the Jan 6 people parity with the 2020 “Summer of Love” rioters. Former VP Harris was involved in raising bail for the 2020 SOL rioters. The bureaucracy declared war on Trump when they pushed the phony Russian collusion hoax during his first term. This was followed by the phony statement by security officials that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. You appear to engage in selective outrage and assertions of lawlessness.