The U.S. President took the stage for the University of Alabama’s spring commencement address this week, where he took the opportunity to reaffirm his promise to ‘keep men out of women’s sports’
Donald Trump was met with a standing ovation at the University of Alabama this week as he once again pledged to defend women’s sports.
The U.S. President was on hand to issue a rousing speech at a special commencement ceremony for the class of 2025, where legendary former college football head coach Nick Saban – who led the university’s football team to six national championships across a near-two decade spell between 2007 to 2023 – was also on hand to congratulate students inside the Coleman Coliseum.
But it was the 78-year-old who had all eyes on him as he stepped up to the podium on Thursday night, despite there being fears over his presence drawing many anti-Trump protests, with the student organization labeling the president’s attendance an “insult” and stating that “UA is not a fascist playground” prior to the event. Trump was previously branded the ‘dumbest president ever’ following a shocking 6-word geography comment.
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The state of Alabama has traditionally shown strong support for Trump, however, and that eventually shone through once he stood in front of the microphone, especially once he vowed to “defend women’s sports” after paying tribute to the school’s SEC champion women’s track and field team.
“As long as I’m president, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will not play in women’s sports,” Trump declared, prompting the longest and loudest applause of the night from those in attendance at the 15,316-capacity venue on the Tuscaloosa-based campus.
“No way. They say it’s an 80-20 issue. No, it’s a 97-3 issue, I think,” he continued. “No, men will not be playing in women’s sports. I said that, and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as you know. It’s done.”
Trump wasn’t done there, however, as he later took the opportunity to mock Democrats for allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sports – as well as trans athletes themselves. Having circled back to the controversial subject, the veteran politician went to extreme lengths to get his points across.
He began by discussing the Paris Olympics women’s boxing competitions, whereby two gold medalists were previously disqualified from international competitions for failing gender eligibility tests. The athletes in question are boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, with neither identifying as transgender.
“They had a great champion, a female boxer, and after one punch she walked back to the corner and said, ‘I can’t get hit like that, I’ve never been hit like that before,” Trump said, before then bizarely doing a physical impersonation of a female weight lifter and a trans weight lifter, reenacting a scenario in which the female loses to a trans opponent.
There was still more to come, however, as the president also took aim at transgender swimmers, telling the story of a biological female competitor who he joked was “windburned” by her trans opponent. Trump recently paused $175 million in federal funding to University Pennsylvania for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
“One young lady, she was going to set the record, she fought all her life to set the record,” Trump said. “Then she looks to the right, and she sees the same thing, but there’s a person next to her who’s a giant … that was a person that transitioned, and he had the wingspan of Wilt ‘the Stilt’ Chamberlain.”
Earlier this week, the Trump administration demanded UPenn make amends for allowing renowned trans swimmer Lia Thomas to compete on the women’s team and use their facilities in 2022 by wiping her from its women’s record books and apologize to each female swimmer – including conservative activist Riley Gaines – who was made to compete against the 25-year-old.
The administration’s statement did not directly mention Thomas, although an investigation launched in February by the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights primarily focused on her. The controversial swimmer has emerged as a significant figure representing transgender athletes and became a key political target for Republicans and President Trump.
- Source: NEWHD MEDIA
