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.
States rights… I mean not like that
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.
Sorta giving up the illusion of the whole states rights things.
Let’s get this straight:
The president of America- publicly threatened a state governor, and it’s on record.
When exactly is the military going to roll up on the White House to drag this child out by his collar and put him in prison?
That is terrorism
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!
“You didn’t say thank you!”
“You didn’t say sorry!”
This is the kindergarten asshurt bully.
So, like the same full throat service he delivers for Putin?
Let’s see what Susan Collins thinks about this…
He missed the part where challenging the powers that be is the most American thing you can do. He’s butthurt that someone would dare, I said dare say something bad about him
Get fucked, Donnie
She should punch him right in the mouth instead
What can we do to lend support to Maine
Burn teslas.
She said I’ll see you in court… he said that he needs in writing that she will never do this again as it is a challenge to the government… it is the government’s system of courts that would challenge the government? I’m concerned that the government as an organization is believed to be so flimsy by the leader of it… worrying.
If it were unlawful, why would he need to open up investigations? Oh, right. I don’t know why I’m looking for logic from the authoritarian.
