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U.S. president Donald Trump delivered a fiery rebuke to the governor of Maine on Friday afternoon as the northeastern state refuses to abide by his executive orders regarding Title IX.
Adopted in 1972, Title IX (.pdf) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at any academic institution or within any education program which receives federal funding. Intended to protect women from discrimination, its original intent had been turned on its ear by the trans movement – which used it to actively discriminate against female competitors.
Trump has fully restored Title IX – a landmark women’s rights law – to its original intent (i.e. protecting women from discrimination). Former president Joe Biden sought to radically reinvent this statute to include biological males who “identified” as women – which led to unfair discrimination against female competitors.
“The war on women’s sports is over!” Trump declared in signing the order.
Actually, the war is ongoing as governor Janet Mills is refusing to comply with Trump’s directives – and paying a steep price for her recalcitrance.
Mills, 77, a second-term Democrat, attended a gathering of the nation’s governors on Friday (February 21, 2025) at the White House in Washington, D.C. During Trump’s remarks, he addressed his administration’s Title IX order and took note of Maine’s lack of compliance.
“Is Maine here?” Trump asked. “The governor of Maine?”
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After Mills acknowledged her presence, Trump put the question directly to her.
“Are you not going to comply with it?” he asked.
“I’m complying with state and federal law,” Mills fired back, defiantly.
“Well I’m – we are the federal law,” Trump said. “You better do it. You better do it because you’re not gonna get any federal funding at all if you don’t. And by the way, your population even though it’s somewhat liberal – although I did very well there – your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports.”
Trump won one of Maine’s four electoral votes – but lost the statewide vote to former vice president Kamala Harris by nearly seven percentage points.
“We’ll see you in court,” Mills told Trump.
“You better comply,” Trump responded. “You better comply otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding.”
“See you in court,” Mills said again.
“Good, I’ll see you in court,” Trump said. “I’ll look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”
Take a look…
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? President Trump calls Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) out to her face over her refusal to comply with the executive order keeping men out of women's sports:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 21, 2025
"You better do it — because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't." pic.twitter.com/uMUZsy1j6t
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Savage…
Ensuring Mills knew his threat was not an idle one, shortly after the exchange Trump’s Department of Education (DOE) announced it was launching an investigation into Maine.
“Today the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter to the Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin announcing that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) amid allegations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied female athletes female-only intimate facilities, thereby violating federal anti-discrimination law,” the agency noted in a press release Friday.
Similar investigations have been launched into the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), both of which have “publicly announced plans to violate federal anti-discrimination laws related to girls’ and women’s sports,” per the statement.
Why is this the hill Mills and other Democrats want to die on?
Good question… because their wild embrace of the woke trans agenda (epitomized by Mills’ refusal to comply with Trump’s Title IX directive) is one of the reasons Trump is in the White House in the first place.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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10 comments
It would really be nice if Trump could not do all the childish bovine excreta…
Opinions—not. reporting news—is in the eyes of the beholder. I saw a childish, orange-headed, old man start an argument in an apparently thought out, and probably rehearsed photo op with a respected and twice-elected leader of an apparently well-educated state that was not willing to get on her knees and kiss his ring—or anything else connected to him. And I might add, unlike some other male and female sycophants much closer to the originating state of this so-called news. Unlike many of the a—kissers that are younger and are looking for the long-term big checks and benefits that they sell their honor and souls for who fall over each other to kiss his a—. Like him, the governor is an older person and as the saying goes, “she did not get old by being stupid.”
This issue is one used simply as red meat for the base. Republicans could also pick another hill to die on. Perhaps they might consider trying to slow President Musk’s dismantling of our country?
This was great to see.
I watched the entire 1 hr, 18 minutes address Trump made to the governors at the conference. His talk was about everything accomplished in his new administration in just 30 days, including signing the executive order mandating that womens’ sports are for women. The part about what Maine was doing in sports was a very small part. In the days before the conference there were news stories about the biological boy winning the girls’ event– that’s why Trump brought it up with the Maine governor.
The athletic dreams of girls and young women were being crushed because of some Democrat Party leaders, some mentally ill activist judges, and the mentally ill advisors controlling Biden’s presidency.
Fitsnews has its share of TDS sufferers. Those who believe it’s okay for biological males to compete in female sports are simply stupid.
The “Sharpie” president loves to issue executive orders. He makes a grand showmanship of signing executive orders. He holds the binder up to show, “Lookie here. This is an executive order that I signed with my Sharpie, and yes, that is my ‘chicken scratch’ signature.”
Other presidents would sign the order, then close the binder to hand back the binder. Trump is just another P.T. Barnum.
He’s just trying to distract from the fact that even his own people do not like what he’s doing with the economy and he’s not even doing as much at the border as Biden did. He’s failing badly across the board.
I am glad you quit pretending to be a libertarian and a news reporter. If you are going to fill your pages with low quality writing , it’s best to own up to the fact you are a paid opinion blogger.
Trump calls himself a King, effectively pulls us out of the NATO alliance, and bitches and this is what you waste time on. The President of the NCAA said out of 500000+ college athletes in the country there were 20 transgender athletes. How many can there possibly be in Maine? I’m surprised King Donald hasn’t just imprisoned them already.
Trump calls himself a King, effectively pulls us out of the NATO alliance, and bitches that his plane is not luxurious enough and this is what you waste time on. The President of the NCAA said out of 500000+ college athletes in the country there were 20 transgender athletes. I’m surprised King Donald hasn’t just imprisoned them already. I am sure his supporters would applaud.