FROM DAILY MAIL: Donald Trump was received by a fawning crowd as he joked with Saudi business and political leaders about how they don’t have ‘transgender’ or ‘liberal’ people in their country on Wednesday.
The president laughed boisterously from the stage at the US-Saudi Investment Forum as he insisted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s people wouldn’t believe the ‘woke’ things that happen in America.
But Trump also bragged that the concept of ‘woke’ is ‘virtually illegal’ in the US after he got back into office for a second term.
He was speaking with an international crowd in Washington, DC after welcoming his Saudi counterpart to the White House on Tuesday and receiving backlash for showering praise on the leader, known by his initials MBS.
After calling MBS the “most respected man in the room,” he launched into a speech about the problems with biological men competing in women’s sports.
“A lot of the Saudis are sitting here saying, ‘What the hell is he talking about transitioning?’ They don’t do a lot of transitioning,” Trump said as he surveyed the crowd.
Transgender expression, including cross-dressing, is criminalized under moral and Sharia-based laws in Saudi Arabia. The Muslim kingdom is infamous for executing homosexuals.
“I don’t know about in your country – I don’t know if you know that word ‘liberal,’ the word ‘liberal’ doesn’t exist,” he joked.
“You can’t use ‘liberal,’ you have to use the word ‘progressive,’” he went on. “And I don’t like using it. It’s a beautiful word, ‘progressive.’ Progressive – that’s not them. They’re regressive,’ Trump insisted.
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