Trump Gives Stunning Answer on Trans Rights — Completely at Odds with Campaign’s ‘They/Them’ Attack Ads
President-elect Donald Trump drew curious distance from one of the most significant and arguably divisive issues on which his campaign ran: transgender rights.
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Apparently Trump doesn’t care as much as RRRoundrock about Trans
TIME: Can I shift to the transgender issue? Obviously, sort of a major issue during the campaign. In 2016, you said that transgender people could use whatever bathroom they chose. Do you still feel that way?
TRUMP: When was that?
TIME: In 2016.
TRUMP: I don’t want to get into the bathroom issue. Because it’s a very small number of people we’re talking about, and it’s ripped apart our country, so they’ll have to settle whatever the law finally agrees. I am a big believer in the Supreme Court, and I’m going to go by their rulings, and so far, I think their rulings have been rulings that people are going along with, but we’re talking about a very small number of people, and we’re talking about it, and it gets massive coverage, and it’s not a lot of people.
TIME: But on that note, there’s a big fight on this in Congress now. The incoming trans member from Delaware, Sarah McBride, says we should all be focused on more important issues. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I do agree with that. On that—absolutely. As I was saying, it’s a small number of people.
TIME:It was a big issue, though, on the campaign. I mean, one of the ads that your campaign put the most money behind was the: Trump is for us and Harris is for they / them.
TRUMP: Well, it’s true, Trump is for us.
TIME: Right. It obviously strikes a chord.
TRUMP: “I mean, Trump is definitely for us, okay?” the president-elect concluded. “And us is the vast, vast majority of people in this country. And also, I want to have all people treated fairly. You know, forget about majority or not majority. I want people to be treated well and fairly.”
