Trump signs order to ban ‘transgender ideology’ from military as president mulls third term: Live
Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
Aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington from Florida on Monday, the president signed the order which baselessly states that trans people are both medically and morally unfit to serve.
Military personnel whose gender identity differs from their biological sex “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,” Trump wrote in the order, adding that they fail to meet the “rigorous standards necessary for military service”.
Speaking to House Republicans at his Doral, Florida, property earlier on Monday, the president said he will get the “transgender ideology the hell out of our military” which he says will ensure the U.S. has the world’s most lethal fighting force.
At the retreat, Trump also mulled whether he could run for office again for a third term and how he might spend money he has raised for the next election cycle. “I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100 percent sure,” he said.
