He said outlawing the theory in schools and workplaces was a “matter of survival” that Americans needed to “lay their very lives down” to defend.
As President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from “efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex- and race-based ideologies.”
“As President I was proud to issue the world’s first ban on Critical Race Theory in September of 2020. Joe Biden rescinded that order, but as soon as we retake Congress, Republicans will ban Critical Race Theory once and for all,” the ex-president said on Saturday.
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“They will also defund the racist equity mandates across the entire federal government. No more illegal discrimination in everything. Getting Critical Race Theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values. It’s also a matter of national survival. We have no choice.
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“The fate of any nation ultimately depends upon the willingness of its citizens to lay down, and they must do this, lay down their very lives to defend their country. If we allow the Marxists and communists and socialists to teach our children to hate America, there will be no one left to defend our flag or to protect our great country or its freedom.’
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Critical Race Theory has been one of the most hotly challenged topics of the U.S. culture war in recent years as Republicans seize on the anger of parents who want more say in what their children learn in schools.
So far, 14 Republican-led states have passed laws limiting how race and racism can be prepared, according to Education Week.
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During the rally, Trump also attacked President Joe Biden as “physically and mentally challenged” and tore into the Democrat Commander-In-Chief’s foreign policy in his first such event since Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s also his first since Biden’s State of the Union address.
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“You could take the five worst presidents in American history, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done in just 13 months. We have a President representing our country at the most important time in history, who is physically and mentally challenged,” the former President said.
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He asserted that Biden “failed to deter Russia’s outrageous invasion of Ukraine” and that Russian President Putin would never have attacked Ukraine during his presidency.
“The fake news said my personality got us into a war. ‘I’m telling you, that guy’s going to get us into a war.’ But actually, my personality is what kept us out of war. I was the only President in nearly four decades who did not get America into any new conflicts.” Trump claimed.