Virgilio Lorenzo Jr

Trump vows to 'stop transgender lunacy' as a top priority

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Agence France-Presse

<p>PHOENIX, United States - President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to &quot;stop the transgender lunacy&quot; on day one of his presidency, as Republicans -- set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- continue their push against LGBTQ rights.</p><p>&quot;I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools,&quot; the president-elect said at an event for young conservatives in Phoenix, Arizona.</p><p>He also vowed to &quot;keep men out of women&#x27;s sports,&quot; adding that &quot;it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.&quot;</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1870914841101340759&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com%2F%23%2Fworkspace%2Fmonitoring%3Fitem%3Durn%3Anewsml%3Aod2-workbench-api.abs-cbn.com%3A2024-12-22T22%3A04%3A57.968694%3Aaadb1367-625b-4709-98fd-4203ad2df3e4%26action%3Dedit%26popup&amp;sessionId=ef03b3db905e0c2f0eacfd023d455ad6e034e097&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" style="position:static;visibility:visible;width:550px;height:552px;display:block;flex-grow:1" data-tweet-id="1870914841101340759"></iframe></div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8"></script><p>Speaking to the AmericaFest conference in a border state he easily carried in the November election, Trump further promised immediate measures against &quot;migrant crime,&quot; vowed to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and doubled down on his talk of restoring US control of the Panama Canal.</p><p>Transgender issues have roiled US politics in recent years, as Democratic- and Republican-controlled states have moved in opposite directions on policy such as medical treatment and what books on the topic are allowed in public or school libraries.</p><p>Last week, when the US Congress approved its annual defense budget, it included a provision to block funding of some gender-affirming care for the transgender children of service members.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r1uZcBBGg6I?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>In his speech Sunday, which amounted to something of a victory lap, Trump made expansive promises for his second term -- and drew a dark picture of the four years preceding it, under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the latter of whom he defeated in the 2024 election.</p><p>&quot;On January 20, the United States will turn the page forever on four long, horrible years of failure, incompetence, national decline, and we will inaugurate a new era of peace, prosperity and national greatness,&quot; Trump said, referring to his swearing-in.</p><div><strong>- &#x27;Golden age&#x27; -</strong></div><p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p>He added: &quot;The golden age of America is upon us.&quot;</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ll6C4xtkfNk?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The president-elect has yet to explain publicly how he plans to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine, or to bring peace to the Middle East.</p><p>But in the sort of bellicose language he sometimes used even against US allies in the past, Trump said Sunday that Panamanian authorities &quot;haven&#x27;t treated us fairly&quot; in their operation of the Panama Canal.</p><p>He had said earlier that fees for use of the canal -- construction of which was begun by France and completed by the United States -- are &quot;ridiculous.&quot;</p><p>And he added Sunday that if the principles behind the 1970s treaty that gave Panama full control of the canal are not followed, &quot;then we will demand&quot; that it be returned to the United States &quot;in full, quickly and without question.&quot;</p><p>Thousands of ships transit the key Central American waterway every year, making it critical to US and international commerce.</p><p>The president-elect, who regularly blames migrants from Latin America for America&#x27;s drug problems, renewed his vow to immediately begin &quot;the largest deportation operation in American history&quot; upon taking office, and later went further, saying he would &quot;immediately designate the (drug) cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.&quot;</p><p>&quot;This criminal network operating on American soil will be dismantled, deported and destroyed,&quot; Trump said.</p><p>During his first term in 2019, after the killing in Mexico of nine American citizens from a Mormon community, Trump vowed to apply the terrorist designation to Mexican cartels.</p><p>But he relented following a plea from then-Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.</p><div><strong>bbk/jgc</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to "stop the transgender lunacy" on day one of his presidency, as Republicans -- set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- continue their push against LGBTQ rights.</p>

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to "stop the transgender lunacy" on day one of his presidency, as Republicans -- set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- continue their push against LGBTQ rights.