Former President Donald Trump had strong words for child-gender-transition advocates during a speech at the America First Policy Initiative on Tuesday, stating “in many cases they are breaking the law and they should be held fully accountable.”
“A society that cannot protect its children is a society that will not be able to protect anybody,” Trump said. “This is a hallmark of cultural and social decay against which we must fight back very hard and very hard.”
“We don’t have time to wait years to do this,” Trump continued. “The sickos who are pushing sexual content in kindergarten and puberty blockers to children, who have no idea what a puberty blocker is – neither do I, by the way.”
The audience laughed.
“Neither do most of the people in the audience as you smile,” Trump added. “Let’s just say they’re not good.”
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[Child transition supporters] are not just engaging in acts of depravity, in many cases they are breaking the law and they should be held fully accountable,” Trump concluded.
The former president also added, “And by the way, we should not allow men to play in women’s sports.” The line received thunderous applause.
Trump joked during an appearance at the Turning Points Action conference in Florida that he wanted to award himself the Congressional Medal of Honor, but “they wouldn’t let me do it.”
The remarks came as he was telling a humorous anecdote about a time he flew to Iraq on Air Force One to assess the battle against ISIS.
The plane’s lights were dimmed to avoid detection, and Trump recalled that he couldn’t see the runway: “I said ‘Captain, we’re pretty low.’ I don’t see any runway. I don’t see anything … ‘Captain, what the hell is going on? You wanna pull up, Captain?’”
Trump recalled, “I told my wife how brave I was,” and said he asked the pilot, “How did I do, Captain? Wasn’t I brave? I didn’t think you were gonna land.”
“In fact,” he continued, “as President, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor but they wouldn’t let me do it. I’ve always wanted that, but they wouldn’t let me do it. They said that would be inappropriate. I said okay
