Trump collapses with the Maine Democratic Governor at the White House event on the transgender decree of athletes
During an event in the White House with a Bipartite Gouverneurs group on Friday, President Donald Trump has briefly fought with the Democratic Governor of Maine Janet Mills after threatening to retain the federal funds of his state on the issue of athletes transgender.
The back and forth came while Trump discussed his decree prohibiting transgender athletes from female sports.
“Aren’t you respected that?” Trump asked Mills directly.
Governor Janet Mills reacts after challenging US President Donald Trump on the Federal Law of Trans Women in Sport while Trump discussed a meeting of governors at the White House on February 21, 2025 in Washington.
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She replied that she would respect state and federal laws.
“Well, I am – we are federal law,” said Trump, adding: “Well, you better do it. You better do it because you will have no federal funding if you don’t Do not.
Mills replied: “See you in court.”
“Well,” replied Trump. “I will see you in court. I look forward to it. It should be easy. And take advantage of your life after the governor, because I don’t think you will be in elected politics,” said Trump.
After the Blanche Maison on Friday, Mills published a statement on Trump’s threat to retain federal funding.
President Donald Trump speaks during the governors’ work session at the White House in Washington on February 21, 2025.
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“If the President tries to unilaterally deprive the children of Maine schoolchildren for the benefit of federal funding, my administration and the Attorney General will take all the appropriate and necessary legal measures to restore this funding and the academic opportunity it offers. The state of Maine will not be intimidated by the threats of the president. “”
Also Friday, the Ministry of Education sent a letter to a Maine education manager announcing a “managed investigation” of the Maine Ministry of Education “in the midst of allegations according to which it continues to allow athletes male to participate in the interscholastic athletics of girls “, the department said in a press release.
The department cited a secondary school in Maine which, according to her, “continues to allow at least one student to argue in the categories of girls”.
Trump signed the Order “Hols Men outside female sports” earlier this month, which orders federal agencies to interpret the federal rules of title IX as prohibiting the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports categories .
