{"id":26613,"date":"2025-05-03T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26613"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:50:23","slug":"trump-claims-hes-in-trouble-with-melania-after-impersonating-transgender-athlete-in-bizarre-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26613","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he’s ‘in trouble’ with Melania after impersonating transgender athlete in bizarre speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump has claimed he’ll be in trouble with wife and First Lady, Melania Trump, after impersonating a transgender athlete.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0president<\/a>\u00a0was addressing the audience at a commencement ceremony at the University of Alabama on Thursday (May 1).<\/p>\n

While discussing\u00a0transgender<\/a>\u00a0athletes taking part in weightlifting contests,\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0said he would be in trouble with\u00a0Melania<\/a>, who called his impressions ‘not very presidential’.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest is like\u00a0weightlifting<\/a>, you ever see the weightlifting? Where they have a record that wasn\u2019t broken in 18 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

“Should I imitate… my wife gets very upset when I do this… she said ‘darling it’s not presidential’ yeah but people like it.<\/p>\n

“Should I do it or not? Alright I’m in trouble when I get home but I’ve been in lots of trouble before.”<\/p>\n

Trump then spoke about a scenario in which two athletes are competing in a weight lifting contest.<\/p>\n

The president does an impression of the female athlete, who – in his example – struggles to lift the weights.<\/p>\n

However, a ‘transitioned person’ then follows next, and is able to lift the weights and ‘break the record’.<\/p>\n

“A guy comes along, or a gal, or whatever, a transitioned person… and he was a failed weight lifter as a man… and breaks the record… that’s not right,” said Trump.<\/p>\n

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Trump did the impersonation while visiting the University of Alabama (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Earlier this week, the Trump administration claimed that the University of Pennsylvania violated federal civil rights laws by allowing transgender athletes to compete.<\/p>\n

The university was given 10 days to ‘voluntarily resolve these violations or risk a referral to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for enforcement proceedings’.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle girls who look up to Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan can find hope in today\u2019s action \u2014 the Trump Administration will not allow male athletes to invade female private spaces or compete in female categories,\u201d said Craig Trainor, the Education Department\u2019s acting assistant secretary for civil rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cUPenn has a choice to make: do the right thing for its female students and come into full compliance with Title IX immediately or continue to advance an extremist political project that violates federal antidiscrimination law and puts UPenn\u2019s federal funding at risk.”<\/p>\n

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Trump said he’d be in trouble with Melania (Saul Loeb-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Just hours after\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0returned to the White House for a second term as president back in January, he signed an\u00a0executive order<\/a>\u00a0recognizing male and female as the only two sexes.<\/p>\n

The order states: “Invalidating the true and biological category of ‘woman’ improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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