US President-elect Donald Trump speaks throughout Turning Level’s annual AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 22, 2024. (Photograph by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)
PHOENIX, United States — President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to “cease the transgender lunacy” on day one in all his presidency, as Republicans — set to manage each chambers of Congress and the White Home — proceed their push in opposition to LGBTQ rights.
“I’ll signal govt orders to finish youngster sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the army and out of our elementary faculties and center faculties and excessive faculties,” the president-elect mentioned at an occasion for younger conservatives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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He additionally vowed to “hold males out of ladies’s sports activities,” including that “it will likely be the official coverage of the USA authorities that there are solely two genders, female and male.”
Talking to the AmericaFest convention in a border state he simply carried within the November election, Trump additional promised quick measures in opposition to “migrant crime,” vowed to designate drug cartels as overseas terrorist organizations, and doubled down on his speak of restoring US management of the Panama Canal.
Transgender points have roiled US politics in recent times, as Democratic- and Republican-controlled states have moved in reverse instructions on coverage resembling medical remedy and what books on the subject are allowed in public or college libraries.
Final week, when the US Congress accepted its annual protection finances, it included a provision to dam funding of some gender-affirming take care of the transgender kids of service members.
In his speech Sunday, which amounted to one thing of a victory lap, Trump made expansive guarantees for his second time period — and drew a darkish image of the 4 years previous it, below President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the latter of whom he defeated within the 2024 election.
“On January 20, the USA will flip the web page perpetually on 4 lengthy, horrible years of failure, incompetence, nationwide decline, and we’ll inaugurate a brand new period of peace, prosperity and nationwide greatness,” Trump mentioned, referring to his swearing-in.
– ‘Golden age’ –
“I’ll finish the conflict in Ukraine. I’ll cease the chaos within the Center East, and I’ll stop, I promise, World Warfare III.”
He added: “The golden age of America is upon us.”
The president-elect has but to elucidate publicly how he plans to deliver a fast finish to the conflict in Ukraine, or to deliver peace to the Center East.
However within the form of bellicose language he generally used even in opposition to US allies prior to now, Trump mentioned Sunday that Panamanian authorities “haven’t handled us pretty” of their operation of the Panama Canal.
He had mentioned earlier that charges to be used of the canal — development of which was begun by France and accomplished by the USA — are “ridiculous.”
And he added Sunday that if the rules behind the Nineteen Seventies treaty that gave Panama full management of the canal will not be adopted, “then we’ll demand” that it’s returned to the USA “in full, shortly and with out query.”
1000’s of ships transit the important thing Central American waterway yearly, making it essential to US and worldwide commerce.
The president-elect, who recurrently blames migrants from Latin America for America’s drug issues, renewed his vow to instantly start “the most important deportation operation in American historical past” upon taking workplace, and later went additional, saying he would “instantly designate the (drug) cartels as overseas terrorist organizations.”
“This prison community working on American soil might be dismantled, deported and destroyed,” Trump mentioned.
Throughout his first time period in 2019, after the killing in Mexico of 9 Americans from a Mormon group, Trump vowed to use the terrorist designation to Mexican cartels.
However he relented following a plea from then-Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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