Donald Trump says schools are now almost exclusively teaching kids how to be transgender

Donald Trump is now claiming that kids in schools are only learning about how to be transgender instead of “reading writing, arithmetic,” which is not true at all.

He made the comments during an interview with Fox Nation’s Kellyanne Conway where she asked about his plans to disband the Department of Education, which would be devastating for the funding of high-needs schools in the U.S.

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Conway said that the left is only against this plan because “they want these kids to be in failing schools.”

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“We’re the party for common sense,” Trump started saying, cutting off Conway as she tried to pose a question. “The left is against almost anything that’s good.”

“We’re going to move education back to the states where they can run their educational programs and they’ll do great,” he said. He then said that the U.S. is “last” in education, “we’re the worst” – which isn’t true – and that the U.S. spends more money “than anybody” per student on education, which is true if Luxembourg is excluded, although almost none of that money comes from the federal government. Schools in the U.S. get just under half of their funding from local governments and just under half from state governments.

He then claimed that he “saved” African American students and that he’s “doing great” among Black voters according to polling, which is not true: 79% of likely Black voters say they support Kamala Harris, and only 16% say they support Trump.

After rambling for a bit, he promised more state control of education and claimed that education would be better in conservative states like India and Idaho and worse in liberal states like California. He said that states would have full control except, “We’ll have like one person and a secretary sitting there to make sure they have English, okay, they teach…”

“We want reading, writing, and arithmetic,” he said. “Right now, you have mostly transgender. Everything’s transgender.”

“Some of these school programs I looked at the other night, they’re destroying our country,” he said, not specifying which programs are making schools talk “mostly” about transgender people. “So education is exciting, it’s gonna be very exciting.”

During his campaign, Trump has repeatedly claimed that schools are turning kids transgender, saying that students leave their homes in the morning and even get surgery while they’re at school before returning home. This is not a mistake in speech; he made this claim during multiple campaign events. He has been fact-checked on this point by multiple news organizations who found it to be false, and his campaign wasn’t even able to cite an example of this happening when asked by CNN.

And he made the same claim again this week at a rally in Wisconsin.

“Your child leaves for school and comes home and their gender has been changed,” he said. “I don’t want to get into the details, but… Not even believable.”

Trump: Can you imagine that? Your child leaves for school and comes home and their gender has been changed… Not even believable pic.twitter.com/hCB73hAkkV

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 1, 2024

“He’s right. It’s not believable,” out actor George Takei quipped.

He’s right. It’s not believable. https://t.co/HF8jNgjhIB

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 1, 2024

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