Trump doubles down on ‘anti-woke’ rhetoric and rants about transgender mice in bizarre speech
President Donald Trump has stood by his series of anti-trans executive orders in his presidential address to Congress on Tuesday (4 March), as well as taking time to rant about ‘transgender mice’ at one point.
As he discussed some of the allegedly wasteful government spending the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been targeting, Trump said: “[We found] $8 million for making mice transgender. This is real.”
It is, however, not real. In their rebuttal of his claim, CNN’s fact checkers say: “Between the 2021 and 2022 fiscal years, the National Institutes of Health awarded a total of $477,121 to three projects that involved administering feminizing hormone therapy to monkeys to understand how it may affect their immune system and make them more susceptible to HIV.” Mice were not involved.
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