Summary:
President Donald Trump is demanding a “full throated apology” from Maine Gov. Janet Mills in his spat with the state over transgender athletes, implying his administration will continue to target the state unless he gets one.
The Democratic governor got into an argument with the president during a governors’ meeting at the White House in February, telling the president “we’ll see you in court” when he threatened to pull federal funding from the state if it failed to comply with his order to ban trans athletes from playing in women’s and girls sports.
His administration subsequently opened overlapping investigations into Maine, including probes launched by the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Agriculture.
The president in a Saturday morning Truth Social post demanded Mills deliver a “full throated apology” for her earlier comments and promise to never pose a “challenge” to the federal government again.
“While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor’s strong, but totally incorrect, statement about men playing in women’s sports while at the White House House Governor’s Conference, we have not heard from the Governor herself, and she is the one that matters in such cases,” Trump wrote. “Therefore, we need a full throated apology from the Governor herself, and a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the Federal Government again, before this case can be settled.”
It was not clear what apology from the state of Maine he was referencing, or what apparent case was being settled. The White House declined to comment on the president’s post or clarify what consequences the governor and her state could face for not apologizing.
Never has a bigger bag of shit walked across the land of America. Trump is a disgrace to America and the human race.
Well you can thank your fellow countrymen who voted for him and continue to support him. Trump is the symptom not the disease.
… we know.
Come on, he’s at least part disease.
States rights… I mean not like that
“kiss the ring, or else”
He said “fully throated” on purpose
If this would have been literally any other President in this country’s history, he’d have been impeached before the week’s out. Even the most polarized pre-MAGA Republicans wouldn’t have put up with that shit. But here we are.
And with that said, there’s a non-zero chance that Mills bends the knee. So far, every time there has been an opportunity for Democrats (or anyone else, for that matter) to put up some opposition, they have rolled over and played dead at the slightest whiff of pressure.
He’s a very very sensitive president. His tender feelings get bruised quite a bit.
I’d like to see his tender feelings bruised a lot harder.
I’d like to bruise his tenders
Homina homina!
That is terrorism
Wait… a probe launched by the DoE? That department he’s essentially shut down? And by HHSA, that department DOGE gutted so it can’t even do the work it’s supposed to be doing?
Isn’t it strange how you can get to be an elected official with that many investigations by the government into you? There is a background check that is extensive and yet for these jokes that is apparently reduced to, “ah yes we see you have an extensive background. jolly good. :) kiss”
Oh, fuck off! Trump is the biggest cunt…
EDIT: If Trump wants to deny them federal funding, the state of Maine should stop paying federal taxes.
So while I get why people are saying that, I wish they’d stop saying that, because that’s not how taxes work for a LOT of people
He’s been getting his ass kicked internationally, recently… so he’s turning his gaze domestic to take out his anger.
Sorta giving up the illusion of the whole states rights things.
It was never about state’s rights.
The south moaned about the federal government trying to abolish slavery while at the same time begged the government to enforce the fugitive slave act against northern states.
As always, it’s about power and oppression.
You seem to have understood every word I said aside from apparently “illusion”.
Please stop being so fucking fragile and combative
YoU sEEm tO hAvE
And stop being such a fucking dweeb while you’re at it
The only one crying here is you boss. Maybe try to tone down the projection a couple notches and we can try whatever this was again.
Maine should split off and join Canada.
Trump would be thrilled at the opportunity to send the military in to violently quell a succession.
And split the US into two as it fought itself.
So, like the same full throat service he delivers for Putin?
Trump’s feeling are HURT because of MEAN WORDS but hes NOT a SNOWFLAKE!
“You didn’t say thank you!”
“You didn’t say sorry!”
This is the kindergarten asshurt bully.
Get fucked, Donnie
