After false claims spread last week that a transgender person was behind the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, US President Donald Trump and his allies are continuing to push the erroneous narrative that the transgender community is a danger to the American public.
Trump on Monday said that he’d consider banning LGBTQ pride flags as his political allies ratcheted up dehumanizing rhetoric.
During an exchange in the Oval Office, Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn showed Trump a photo of a trans flag currently on display in Washington, DC, and claimed that “a lot of people are very threatened” by it.
“Would you be opposed to taking this flag down, up and down the streets of DC?” Glenn asked.
“Well, I wouldn’t be,” Trump replied. “Then they’ll sue and they’ll get freedom of speech stuff, you know, so that’ll happen. But I would have no problem with it.”
Trump then pivoted to saying that he wanted anyone who burned an American flag to “go to jail immediately.”
The day after the president signaled his support for banning transgender pride flags, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) likened the transgender rights movement to a “cancer” and suggested detaining all transgender people in the United States.
In an interview with Newsmax, Jackson baselessly said that transgender women “have an underlying level of aggressiveness” and suggested they be forcibly committed to mental institutions.
“We have to treat these people,” he said. “We have to get them off the...
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