At a Wisconsin rally yesterday, after saying he'd eliminate the Dept. of Education,
Trump also described a bizarre scenario he believes parents should be worried about when their kids are in school, just days after a deadly school shooting took place at a high school in Georgia.
"Can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, 'Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school.' And your son comes back with a brutal operation," Trump told the crowd, falsely suggesting that school faculty or administration staff somehow perform gender-affirming surgery on students.
Trump made a similar claim a week ago, incorrectly claiming that "the school decides what's going to happen with your child" regarding such surgeries.
Fact-checks by Snopes, CNN and PolitiFact have concluded that this claim is false. There is no evidence that schools in the U.S. are performing, or sending students to receive, these types of surgeries. Gender-affirming surgery is very rarely performed on minors, and both surgeries and less invasive forms of gender-affirming care require parental consent under current medical standards. This is from HUFFPOST
It's come to this: respected fact checking groups have to report on ludicrous claims made by Trump. It is obvious to reasonable people that what he says about some things are so far beyond "mere" lies that they belong in a nightmare or a bad LSD trip.
Just for one example, look how he has picked the easiest target in the LGBTQ+ community to convince parents that schools will do gender changing surgery on their kids without parental consent even though this would be both impossible and illegal, and such surgeries on minors is rare and with younger children non-existent (reference).
As reported in the NPR article, "The number of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ+ doubled in 12 years, new poll shows:"
The number of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has more than doubled in the last 12 years, according to new polling from Gallup. The latest results show that 7.6% of U.S. adults now align themselves with the LGBTQ+ community — up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup started collecting this data. Compare that to four years ago, when the figure was 5.6%.
There are just too many members of the LGBTQ+ community and others who know and love them for Trump to go after them.
Attacking schools trying to do transgender surgery on children, and I used this term warily, is going after the lowest hanging fruit of prejudice and represents the ginning up of irrational fear. Instead of lashing out against something like same sex marriage which 71% of Americans support and understand, Trump is trying to convince voters that so-called woke Democrats want to allow schools to change the physical sex of their children.
This is like his saying doctors want to execute newborn babies. As obvously absurd as this claim is, it also had to be fact-checked.
He fearmongers on other topics. For example he posted the following:
"Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country."
Trump has not only predicted that if he loses this may be the last election we'll have or that the country will be destroyed, he has even threatened that we'd have World War III if he isn't elected (see Newsweek article). In other words, he is claiming that unless you elect him the country will be reduced to a radioactive wasteland.
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