From PBS NewsHour.
President Donald Trump said during his March 4 address to a joint session of Congress that his administration is working to protect children from “toxic ideologies” in schools.
The president then laid out how his administration has been targeting trans rights.
“Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you,” Trump said to applause from Republicans. “Because we’re getting wokeness out of our schools and out of our military. … We don’t want it. Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad. It’s gone.”
The first speech of Trump’s second term in office, while not officially a State of the Union address, is a chance for the president to lay out legislative priorities and tout early achievements.
Trump has moved to deliver on some of his campaign promises at breakneck speed, signing more than 75 executive orders in little more than a month. Thousands of federal workers have been fired at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency and Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk.
Close to half of Americans in the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll disapprove of Trump’s job performance so far, but his approval rating, at 45 percent, is higher than at any point of his first term.
While 54 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, 45 percent believe the country is on the right track, a 10-point jump from December 2024.
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