President Donald Trump got verbally sidetracked on Thursday as he tried to promote his “big, beautiful bill” at a White House event.
Trump hit on a number of topics, eventually attacking trans athletes.
“I don’t wanna have transgender for anybody that happens to leave the house at a young age,” he said, then shifted mid-thought to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), suggesting a different kind of transition.
“It’s crazy and it’s so demeaning, and they don’t wanna change, I seen it the other day. Guys like Schumer, our great Palestinian senator, this guy,” he said of Schumer, who is Jewish. “He’s changed. He used to like Jewish people. Now he’s totally against Jewish people. It’s the most incredible transformation I think I’ve ever seen.”
Then he returned to trans athletes.
“But who would allow this to happen? In other sports, the same thing,” he said. “Try the weightlifting numbers some day, you wanna see some big differences. In a million years the women will never catch these numbers. It’s not gonna happen. And it’s very demeaning to women. And I don’t like it when it’s demeaning to women.”
Trump has repeatedly attacked Schumer as “not Jewish anymore” and claimed “he’s a Palestinian now.”
Trump’s critics on social media put him on blast: