White House comes up empty when asked to prove Trump’s ‘sick’ campaign lie

Photo: President Donald J. Trump disembarks Air Force One at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, Tuesday, October 13, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley). Attribution: “P202601013MR-0186” by The White House via Flickr. United States Government Work. Article by Travis Gettys. Raw Story – October 20, 2026.

President Donald Trump has revived a debunked 2024 campaign claim that schools are secretly sending children off for gender surgery, and when CNN asked the White House for proof, it couldn’t produce a single example. At a Georgia rally Friday, Trump claimed there are “five states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy, three or four days later,” wrote CNN’s Daniel Dale. “And you say, ‘Where’s my son? My son is in the hospital.’ Can you imagine?” Trump added. “They don’t even need approval. It’s sick. You’ll have five – I think Minnesota and some others – I think it’s five or six states.” […]

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