White House Issues Head-Scratcher Of A Defense For Trump’s ‘Transgender Mice’ Claim
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The White House bashed "Fake News losers" for attempting to fact-check the president, but its explanation doesn't quite vindicate him.
The White House issued a press release Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising claim that the federal government had spent $8 million “making mice transgender” — but the research does not back them up.
The line about trans mice came during Trump’s joint address Tuesday, as he ran through a long list of federal spending that he considered wasteful.
“This is real,” Trump said of the mice.
But because he did not elaborate, theories on what the president was talking about proliferated online, with many people theorizing that he had misunderstood the scientific term “transgenic,” which involves alteration of an organism’s DNA. That does not appear to be the case.
The White House says the $8 million figure was reached by adding up the cost of six separate studies involving mice.
All of Trump’s actions in his second term must be seen through the lens of his comment to Roberts at the address to Congress.
The White House communications team was "pre-gaming" with familiar food.
"Thank you, Elon," Trump said. "He's working very hard. He didn't need this."
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser had ordered the painting as a public act of defiance in 2020 amid protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
The Fox Business host immediately jumped to the president's defense.
The president's "little disturbance" admission did not go down well.
Social media users hailed the Democratic senator's "dignified" response to the president's "disgusting" remark during his address to Congress.
The Texas Democrat offered an unfiltered response to the president's speech in Congress.
Stock markets sank on Tuesday as the Trump administration implemented new tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
"You have no mandate to cut Medicaid," Rep. Al Green yelled while pointing his cane toward Trump.
If intentional, the fire would fall in line with other recent instances of suspected arson against Tesla in recent days.
Payton McNabb, a young activist with a conservative women’s organization, is set to appear as a guest at Trump’s speech.
The cuts would come through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation and not authorized to speak on the record.