Trump Calls For 'Certifying' Patriotic Teachers, Election Of Principals By School Parents
Former President Donald Trump launched a fired-up culture war directly at American classrooms Thursday, calling in a video for certification of “patriotic teachers,” the firing of “radicals” and the “direct election” of school principals by students’ parents.
The declared Republican candidate for president also demanded that funds be slashed for any school teaching “critical race theory, gender ideology or other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content,” apparently as defined by him.
Trump called for the creation of a “new credentialing body” that would “certify teachers who embrace patriotic values” while “radicals, zealots and Marxists” (and “pink-haired communists”) would be fired. (Trump has hailed the insurrectionists of Jan. 6, 2021, as “great patriots.”)
He also called for investigations of school districts that have engaged in race-based discrimination, including against Asian American students. Ironically, Trump himself has repeatedly fired anti-Asian slurs at Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, his former secretary of transportation.
NEW VIDEO: President Trump's Plan to Save American Education and Give Power Back to Parents pic.twitter.com/aizxaRXIM3
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 26, 2023
The video, posted on Twitter, predictably triggered an uproar on the social media platform.
Several posters referred to the so-called Trump University (which was never certified as any kind of school) that promised to teach adult students how to be successful businesspeople. Trump ended up paying $25 million to settle claims that students were swindled by the operation.
Hahaha. Trump university?
— Johnse🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BJohnse19) January 27, 2023
Anyone can't possibly wonder now why he loves Russia, China and North Korea education systems and Governments and above all Dictators.
— David Howes (@dhowes3) January 27, 2023
— The Dark Night of Fascism (@SojournerNow) January 27, 2023
You mean this guy? The traitor? pic.twitter.com/roQpmgWFKj
— D.B. Miller (@DBMillerIMO) January 27, 2023
The nightmare that never ends.
— Shar E. 🌊🌼🌊🌷🌊🌸🌊🌈🌺💙 (@shurtis123) January 27, 2023